Scrum Master Job at Barclays (Pune)

Job Description

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.

Job Responsibility

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
Facilitate Events
Support Iteration Execution
Optimize Flow
Mitigate Risks
Build High-Performing Teams
Stakeholder Management
Governance and Reporting

Requirements

Facilitates and supports Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles
To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication
Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders
Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback
Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible
Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise ‘in the moment leadership’, and drive high-performing team attributes
Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders
Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable
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
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
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments
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 developing 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 practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).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
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

What we offer

Working flexibly
Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working
Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
Explore flexible working arrangements
Incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience
Chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues
Encouragement to embrace mobility

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