• Job Description

  Req#: 90319783

  Scrum Master
  Knutsford

  As a Barclays Scrum Master, you will be responsible leading one or more engineering teams, partnering with them closely to help them deliver value to our customers in the most effective way possible. This is your chance to showcase your crafting of an exceptional technical vision and strategy as well as providing day to day coaching and career guidance to your reports. You will also work closely with the technical leads to help develop tooling, processes and automation infrastructure on our journey to a fully CI / CD environment.
  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
  This opportunity is location flexible. We will consider requests for locating the role at an alternative Barclays’ key UK office from that advertised.
  We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning 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. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

  What will you be doing?
  • Helping 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 Guilds and chapters and growing engineering communities.
  • 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.
  • Focusing on scrum team efficiency and making sure tracking of key metrics is utilized correctly within the team.

  What we’re looking for:
  • Exceptional understanding of Agile, scrum and related methodologies
  • Experience working in cross functional agile teams within a distributed team model.
  • Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master
  • Experience in working in an end-to-end software development lifecycle

  Skills that will help you in the role:
  • Knowledge 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
  • Understanding of scalable architecture patterns and client / backend systems 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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