Barclays · Glasgow
Product & Program
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, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept 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 conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible
Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise ‘in the moment leadership’, and drive high-performing team attributes
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
Join us as an IFC Transaction Monitoring Scrum Master where you’ll help deliver priorities that strengthen our financial crime safeguards and governance. You’ll work with our Transaction Monitoring team to protect the bank against financial crime risks. In this role, you’ll guide change delivery in a fast-paced environment, ensuring clear processes and successful outcomes. Together with stakeholders, you’ll develop solutions that meet regulatory and business goals.
The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime environment, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.
To be successful as an IFC Transaction Monitoring Scrum Master, you must have experience with:
Some other highly valued skills may include:
You may be assessed on key skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role will be based in Glasgow or London.