Job Description

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

Join us as a Scrum Master at Barclays where you will drive Agile excellence across complex, cross-functional delivery teams, enabling faster and more predictable value delivery. You will champion Agile ways of working, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure the successful execution of strategic initiatives aligned to business outcomes.

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

• Leading multiple Scrum/Kanban teams in a scaled Agile environment (SAFe / LeSS / Nexus)

• Facilitating key Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives) with measurable outcomes

• Coaching teams and stakeholders on Agile principles, servant leadership, and continuous improvement

• Managing dependencies, risks, and impediments while collaborating with Product Owners and Engineering Leads

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with Agile tooling such as Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills in enterprise environments

• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and release management lifecycle

• Data-driven mindset with experience in metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, and flow efficiency

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 Agile delivery and leadership skills.

The role is based out of Pune.