Scrum Master

Embark your transformative journey as Scrum Master. At Barclays, we’re more than a bank – we’re a force for progress and help craft innovative solutions. We are looking for a highly skilled Project Manager to join us on an exciting journey as we modernize our Corporate Banking platforms to make them simpler, leaner and more efficient. You will utilize your strong industry and domain expertise to shape up our Technology product offerings to meet the business requirements for the future. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

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

• Experience in managing large multi-year complex projects involving global teams, through the full project lifecycle from inception to implementation. Collaborating with an experienced team of SMEs, Technology, Operations, Product, and other Global Business stakeholders to understand the requirements and project deliverables.
• Managing Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies closely, across all aspects of the project. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, together with well-developed collaborative mindset.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and identify trends, excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively.
• Understanding of corporate banking is desirable
  
  

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Formal credentials in Agile, PMP or SAFE. Estimation skills for tasks, including design, development, technical debt, and testing exposure to cloud technologies (public or private).
  
  

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as project management discipline, risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is for Pune Location.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
  
  

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
  
  

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

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