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Lead Agile teams in Chennai as an AI in Finance Scrum Master, driving AI, GenAI, and data initiatives.
Shape Finance's future by delivering AI-powered solutions in a fast-paced Treasury & Technology environment.
Title: AI in Finance Scrum Master
Location: Chennai, DLF IT Park
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
- 1.Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
- 2.Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback
- 3.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
- 4.Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalation risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
- 5.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
- 6.Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders
- 7.Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as part of the AI in Finance programme within Finance & Treasury Technology, where Finance, Technology and Data teams come together to reimagine Finance processes through the power of Artificial Intelligence.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, GenAI, Data and Analytics initiatives while gaining exposure to senior leaders across the organisation. You will help shape new ways of working, influence delivery practices, and contribute to building the future Finance function.
To be successful as an AI in Finance Scrum Master, you should have experience with:
- Strong experience delivering complex programmes and projects using Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies, including planning, execution, sprint management and delivery governance.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional project teams, manage project plans, track milestones, and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies (RAID).
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior business and technology stakeholders and providing clear status reporting and governance updates.
Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:
- Experience delivering Technology Transformation programmes, particularly involving AI, GenAI, Data, Reporting, Analytics or Automation Solutions.
- Familiarity with modern delivery tooling and practices, including the use of AI-powered tools to improve project delivery, reporting, planning and team productivity.
- Knowledge of Finance, Risk, Treasury or Regulatory changing environments and experience working across Business and Technology teams.
The location of the role is Chennai, IN.