Scrum Master

Join us as a Scrum Master at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

To be successful as aScrum Master, you should have experience with:

• Agile Change Leadership & Team‑of‑Teams Orchestration: Facilitates cross‑team collaboration and dependency management across ARTs and component teams. Enables alignment between Product, Engineering, Intellect (vendor), and Platform SMEs. Coaches teams in self‑organization, predictability, and continuous improvement.
• PI Planning Leadership & Scaled Delivery Governance: Responsible for orchestrating end‑to‑end PI cycles across shared components. Drives preparation, capacity alignment, feature readiness, and cross‑team coordination. Ensures visibility of risks, impediments, and program‑level predictability metrics. Works with Agile Coaches, RTEs, Product Owners and Vendor Scrum Masters.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement Excellence: Liqudity transformation involves diverse stakeholders across Corporate Banking, Payments, RFT, Intellect, Infrastructure, and GTIS.

Desirable Skills:

• Expert Facilitation of Agile Ceremonies at Scale: Skilled in running ceremonies across distributed teams (stand‑ups, refinement, system demos, PI Planning sessions, retrospectives).
• Data‑Driven Delivery Enablement & Predictability: Leverages velocity, burndown, cycle‑time, capacity indicators, and PI predictability metrics to steer teams and inform leadership.
• Applies enterprise frameworks for RAID management and progress transparency.
• Scaled Agile Coaching & Ways‑of‑Working Evolution: Guides adoption of Barclays’ Product & Platform Model, New Ways of Working, and Scaled Agile patterns. Helps uplift teams and vendors who are newer to SAFe/Agile practices.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

Facilitates and supports Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles. To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results.  Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox

• Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback

• Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible

• Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions

• Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise ‘in the moment leadership’, and drive high-performing team attributes

• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders

• Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable