Scrum Master

Join us at Barclays as a Scrum Master, where you'll lead the delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank. You'll work closely with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, ensuring delivery meets agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

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

• Ample Agile delivery management, with the ability to run large-scale technical programmes end-to-end using Scrum ceremonies, while meeting time, budget and quality goals.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills to align engineering, product and business teams, manage expectations and translate technical detail into clear business language.
• Proven ability to identify, assess and mitigate risks early, ensuring delivery remains on track without disrupting sprint cadence.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Financial services domain knowledge, including familiarity with regulatory requirements, compliance frameworks and governance processes, enabling effective engagement with business and risk stakeholders.
• Experience delivering mobile (iOS/Android) and web applications, with an understanding of build pipelines, release cycles and platform constraints to support accurate planning and risk management.
• Experience delivering technology change in regulated environments, balancing Agile delivery with governance, security and compliance requirements.

You may be assessed on the 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 in our Knutsford office.

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:
  Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that allevents 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 escape 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.

• 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.
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