Scrum Master - VP

Join us as a Scrum Master - VP at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders. 

To be successful as a Scrum Master - VP you should have experience with:

• Agile Methodology: Knowledge of Agile frameworks, experience with iterative development, and operates with an Agile mind-set to promote collaboration, and continuous improvement and stay flexible to achieve high-performing results. 

• Tools and Technology Proficiency: Experience with Agile project management tools – Confluence & JIRA; and the ability to configure and leverage these tools to support program execution. 

• Communications and Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills, ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and experience building strong collaboration between cross-functional teams. 

• Continuous Improvement: Experience facilitating retrospectives, driving process improvements, waste reduction and fostering a culture of continuous learning and Agile maturity. 

• Facilitation and Coaching: Strong facilitation skills to run effective Agile ceremonies, ability to coach teams to improve their processes, and guide them toward greater efficiency and performance. 

• Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution:  Critical thinking, mediation skills, and the ability to proactively identify problems, remove blockers and facilitate collaborative solutions. 

• Stakeholder Management: Experience managing expectations, prioritizing work based on stakeholder feedback, and facilitating effective communication between the team and stakeholders. 

• Adaptability and Flexibility: Ability to adapt to shifting priorities, changing requirements, and varying team dynamics while maintaining focus on delivering value. 

• Time Management & Prioritisation: Strong organizational and time management skills, experience in prioritizing backlog items, and helping teams stay focused on high-priority work. 

• Metrics and Reporting: Proficiency in data analysis, reporting tools and experience with metrics such as velocity, cycle time, and predictability. 

Desired Skill:

• SAFe Agile certification is preferred.

• Scrum Master Certification 

• BFSI experience is an added advantage

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.

This role will be based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. 

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.