Scrum Master Pune About Barclays Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group. Risk and Control Objective Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards. 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. Introduction: As a Barclays Scrum Master, you will work on multiple releases at a time, collaborating with the Stakeholders, Tech/Pillar leads and other developers as well as support Infrastructure teams during and for the release of software components within the project scope, ensuring quality and timeliness of the delivery What will you be doing Servicing the Team Coaching the team in self-organization and cross-functionality Removing impediments to the team's progress to its sprint commitments by facilitating the meetings throughout the Sprint Creating issues, bugs in EST Jira backlog and sprint wise, Manage Team Capacity, Velocity and Commitments to maximize team throughput during each sprint Conducting Agile Scrum project activities (planning, Inception, Iteration, sprint, story writing, sizing, grooming sessions Implementing and conducting Agile Scrum methodologies (Daily scrums, stand-ups, sprint review Sprint planning meetings to project progress and Retrospective meeting at the end of each sprint to focus on improvements and action plan Actively ensuring execution of sprint goals and delivery to the committed sprint work What we're looking for: Strong understanding of Agile software development methodology. Proven experience in delivering technical projects with sprint team(s) following Agile methodology. Ability to work in a challenging, geographically distributed and part-remote work environment. Ability to formulate appropriate metrics and measurements around teams delivery and setup automated process for reporting of metrics. Strong hands on experience in Jira (or equivalent tool) and Confluence (or equivalent tool). Experience of effecting organisational change to achieve agility. Experience working in fast paced and complex environment delivering complex programs/projects Working knowledge of managing Java, APIs/Micro services development teams. Working knowledge of release and change management process (ITIL). A strong work ethic - team player, creative, passionate and disciplined. Skills that will help you in the role: Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional or equivalent (i.e. Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance qualifications). Understanding of other application development methodologies like Scaled Agile (SAFe) , Waterfall etc. Understanding of Cloud concepts, DevOps and CI:CD. Working knowledge of testing