Overview
Join us as a Scrum Master at Barclays where you'll be part of an 8‑person, cross‑functional squad working across investment operations, regulatory change, and markets-related initiatives. You’ll work with a team of developers, testers, and analysts focused on delivering technology solutions. In this role, you’ll facilitate and support 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 and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.
Location
The role will be based out of our Glasgow campus.
Responsibilities
* Facilitate and support Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles; facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.
* Remove obstacles to improve team collaboration and communication, enabling the team to deliver high‑quality, iterative results.
* Facilitate Events: ensure all events take place, 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 removal of conflicts impacting team flow, make all work visible, and use metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively.
* 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, provide moment‑to‑moment leadership, and drive high‑performing team attributes.
* Governance and Reporting: ensure data quality and representation at required governance forums, if applicable.
Qualifications
* Understanding of Scrum Master framework.
* Experience in conducting Scrum events (Sprint/Big Room planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retrospective).
* Coaching & Mentoring.
* Experience with cross‑platform change delivery/management in a complex technology landscape.
* Experience with End‑to‑End change management governance – architecture engagement, key stakeholder engagement and End‑to‑End test management.
Role Context and Expectations
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
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