Scrum Master

Barclays Bank Plc; Northampton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an Assistant Vice President to facilitate Scrum events and lead Agile teams focused on delivering quality results. This role requires strong change management, analytical skills, and stakeholder management experience. Responsibilities include optimizing workflow, mitigating risks, and fostering team performance. Candidates must align with the company's values and mindset to drive effective collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in change management.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to manage stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum events to ensure team collaboration.
• Support iteration execution and maintain quality of artifacts.
• Mitigate risks and shield the squad from interruptions.

Skills

Change Management

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Role Overview

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. Facilitates Scrum events, promotes continuous improvement, and acts as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders. Provides guidance on effective communication, visibility of work, and risk mitigation to safeguard the squad from interruptions.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate events, ensuring all occur, are positive, productive, and stay within timebox.
• Support iteration execution: maintain quality of ceremony artefacts, continuous customer value, backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback.
• Optimize flow: identify and remove conflicts impacting team flow, utilise metrics to empower the team, and make all work visible.
• Mitigate risks: identify and elevate risks, remove impediments, shield the squad from interruptions.
• Build high‑performing teams: foster and coach Agile team attributes, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise "in‑the‑moment leadership", and drive high‑performance attributes.
• Stakeholder management: facilitate collaboration with business stakeholders, product teams, and vendors, and build trust.
• Governance and reporting: ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable.

Leadership Expectations

As an Assistant Vice President, you will advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. You will collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions, lead a team performing complex tasks, set objectives, coach employees, and evaluate performance. If you hold leadership responsibilities, you are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others. For individual contributors, you will guide team members, identify inclusion of other specialisations, and lead assignments using cross‑functional methodologies.

Qualifications

• Change Management
• Analytical Skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Previous experience in change management
• Awareness of programme governance

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.