Barclays is looking for a Cash Infra Scrum Master to facilitate Agile teams by ensuring adherence to Scrum principles, removing obstacles, and enhancing collaboration. You will act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders to enable the delivery of high-quality, iterative results.
What You'll Do
- Facilitate Scrum events, ensuring they are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Support iteration execution by ensuring quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value, maintaining backlog refinement, and iterating on stakeholder feedback.
- Optimize team flow by identifying and facilitating the removal of conflicts, utilizing metrics to empower effective communication, and making all work visible.
- Mitigate risks by identifying and escalating them to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions.
- Build high-performing teams by fostering and coaching Agile Team attributes, encouraging stakeholder collaboration, deputising 'in the moment leadership', and driving continuous improvement.
- Manage stakeholders by facilitating collaboration with business stakeholders, product teams, and vendors, and building trust.
- Ensure governance and reporting by maintaining data quality and providing representation at required governance forums.
- Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, and identify new directions for projects.
- Consult on complex issues and provide 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.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information and influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
- Develop and manage large project plans outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Coordinate with multiple teams to integrate subprojects and align delivery timelines with the larger plan.
- Identify and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies effectively, taking mitigation actions.
- Plan, coordinate, and manage change, ensuring required teams are engaged and project change is implemented successfully.
- Manage project budget, ensuring delivery within the agreed budget.
- Coordinate Release Management and Live proving activities.
- Create various dashboards to provide overall status and reporting to senior management and stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- Experience developing and managing large project plans outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Experience coordinating with multiple teams to integrate subprojects and align delivery timelines.
- Experience identifying and managing risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies effectively.
- Ability to plan, coordinate, and manage change, ensuring required teams are engaged.
- Experience managing project budgets, ensuring delivery within agreed budget.
- Experience with Agile methodology.
- Experience with Release Management and Live proving coordination.
- Experience with various management tools like Microsoft Project, Jira, Agile, Advanced Excel.
- Experience creating dashboards for status reporting to senior management and stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- PMP Certification, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional or equivalent (e.g., Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance qualifications).
- Experience in Accounting/Liquidity, Tandem mainframe skills & Corporate Banking Domain.
- Good communication skills and stakeholder management.
Technical Stack
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Agile
- Advanced Excel
Team & Environment
This is an individual contributor or People Leader role with potential team leadership responsibilities.
Work Mode
This role is based locally in Pune.
We demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship. We demonstrate Barclays Mindset: to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
