Overview
hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us at Barclays as a Scrum Master and support the delivery of data initiatives within the UK Corporate Chief Data Analytics Office Delivery team. This role involves working with cross-functional teams to facilitate collaboration, remove blockers and enable delivery of strategic priorities, while supporting change delivery and promoting effective data practices across the organization. The role is based in Glasgow.
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, ensuring all events are positive, productive, and 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 conflicts impacting team flow, using metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively and make work visible.
- Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the squad from interruptions.
- Build High-Performing Teams: Foster Agile team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, provide in-the-moment leadership, and drive high-performing team behaviors.
- 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.
Responsibilities and expectations
- Assist with risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills as assessed for the role.
Qualifications and Skills
- Experience supporting planning and delivery across internal teams and initiatives; ability to design and execute solutions.
- Understanding of data and records management within a financial institution and the business impact of practices.
- Stakeholder engagement experience with the ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships.
- Familiarity with scaled Agile ways of working and practical knowledge of using Jira.
- Ability to document the impact of change and present options clearly.
- Strong communication skills to work across and connect with different teams and departments.
- Experience using AI to enhance and improve business processes.
Additional context
All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.
