Scrum Master Knutsford, England
Job description
Scrum Master
Radbroke
As a Barclays Scrum Master this is an exciting opportunity where you would be part of the Barclays Strategic Change team, managing and transforming the Barclays End to End change lifecycle. A spart of the team you will be responsible for helping to deliver seamless, end-to-end technology and process solutions for our colleagues and support the vision and strategy to successfully deliver change solutions.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing?
• Supporting to shape requirements and working with stakeholders to manage priorities and plan deliver of new components or changes to the current set of applications
- Owning a number of ceremonies including stand-ups, planning sessions, show and tell and retrospectives
- Championing agile ways of working, growing, and promoting cultural best practices, such as backlogs
- Being responsible for incremental adjustment to working models allowing autonomous yet highly aligned feature / scrum teams to thrive
- Focusing on improving and tracking feature team velocity and instill Agile best practice in the team working closely with agile coaches and engineering managers to achieve this
- Leading on scrum team efficiency and making sure tracking of key metrics is utilised correctly
What we’re looking for:
• Significant understanding of Agile, scrum and related methodologies
- Experience working in cross functional agile teams within a distributed team model
- Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master
- Excellent Experience in working in an end-to-end software development lifecycle
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Significant understanding and experience of SAFe / LeSS
- Has had success in independently driving adoption of innovations across large organisations
- Knowledge and experience of other methodologies such as Lean Kanban / XP / Mob programming etc
- Analytical skills with data driven approach and ability to grasp technical design
Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.
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