Join us as an Scrum Master at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will be responsible for driving the successful delivery of complex, large‑scale technical initiatives aligned to Barclays’ location strategy. You will lead Agile delivery for cross‑functional teams, ensuring outcomes meet agreed timelines, budgets, quality standards, regulatory requirements, and governance frameworks. This role plays a key part in shaping our digital transformation by fostering innovation, enabling engineering excellence, and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

To be successful as Scrum Master you should have:

- Proven track record in delivery management and release management within large-scale technical environments.
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, tools, and reporting platforms (JIRA, Confluence).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills with a strong ownership mindset.
- Demonstrated problem‑solving and decision‑making capabilities, especially under pressure.
- Experience producing actionable insights, reports, and dashboards for senior leadership.
- Solid experience in risk management, compliance, and audit-driven delivery environments.
- Lead end‑to‑end delivery of technical projects using Agile/Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, stand‑ups, demos, retrospectives, and release management.
- Manage resource planning, capacity allocation, and cross‑team coordination to ensure efficient execution of delivery commitments.
- Coach and mentor teams on Agile best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, security standards,



and Barclays’ control frameworks.
- Manage change requests and ensure transparent communication with all stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Support the development of recent policies, governance practices, and improvements to strengthen control posture.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

- Robust knowledge of the banking and financial domain.
- Flexibility to operate in dynamic delivery environments with shifting priorities.
- Ability to collaborate across business functions and understand how systems and teams interconnect.
- Experience developing control mechanisms and governance processes.

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 Pune location

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

1.Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive,



and kept within the timebox 2.Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback 3.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 4.Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions 5.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 6.Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders 7.Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable

Assistant Vice President Expectations

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 fou

📌 Scrum Master (Pune)
🏢 Barclays
📍 Pune