Barclays
Agile Delivery Lead - Planning and Advice
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Job Description
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.
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Join us as an Agile Delivery Lead within the Planning and Advice team for Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management, where you will play a key role in the successful delivery of a strategic digital platform that enables clients to engage with qualified financial advisers, model financial goals, receive personalised financial plans, and invest through seamless digital journeys.
The role will include; leading and coordinating delivery activities across engineering teams, facilitating collaboration between business and technology stakeholders to define and deliver requirements, and ensuring effective planning, governance, and execution across complex workstreams within an Agile environment.
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To be successful as an Agile Delivery Lead, you should have:
- Strong experience performing technical analysis within complex payments or financial services environments, translating business needs into clear business and technology requirements.
- Proven ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, technology teams, and third-party suppliers.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present, influence, and consult on complex topics with senior audiences.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Experience delivering change within large regulatory programmes or highly governed environments.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations, proactively identifying challenges and driving solutions to completion.
- Familiarity with Scrum techniques, Agile delivery methodologies, and SAFe frameworks.
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