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Scrum Master

Northampton, United Kingdom

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Date live: 16/10/2025

Business Area: Risk Finance and Treasury

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000069415

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Barclays Change

Change leads and oversees transformational change initiatives at Barclays. Your role will involve managing projects and programs that drive strategic improvements and ensure successful implementation of change across the organization.

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Embark on a transformative journey as a Scrum Master. At Barclays, our vision is clear – 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.

To be successful as a Scrum Master, you should have experience with:

  • Experience as a full-time Scrum Master

  • Proven experience working with teams in a large, scaled environment, ideally utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, Nexus).

  • Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM) or Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)

  • Demonstrated ability to coach stakeholders and leadership through significant organizational change.

  • Expert-level proficiency in Agile tooling (e.g., Jira/Confluence, Azure DevOps) for reporting at both the team and program level.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • Direct experience participating in or leading PI Planning/Program-level events.

  • Certified SAFe 5/6 Release Train Engineer (RTE) or equivalent LeSS/Scrum@Scale certification.

  • Advanced coaching certification (e.g., ICP-ACC, CSC) or PMP certification.

  • Experience managing large, complex budgets related to Agile tooling or training initiatives.

  • Experience customizing Jira workflows/boards for program-level visibility.

The location of your role Is Northampton.

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

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This is Barclays Northampton

Northampton is one of our most important UK centres. We’re home to all card and payment services across the Barclays business; we’re also home to Barclaycard. This is a vast operation, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people.

Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment, helping to build community through getting closer to nature.

You can experience a wealth of diverse and surprising career paths right here in Northampton, across Barclays UK or even globally.

Our building is environmentally friendly and people-friendly too, with excellent facilities designed to make work a pleasure.

Northampton is the perfect blend of town and country, a growing and thriving centre for business, and a wonderful place to live and work.

This is Barclays Northampton

Northampton is one of our most important UK centres. We’re home to all card and payment services across the Barclays business; we’re also home to Barclaycard. This is a vast operation, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people.

Focus on wellbeing

Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment, helping to build community through getting closer to nature.

Big opportunities

You can experience a wealth of diverse and surprising career paths right here in Northampton, across Barclays UK or even globally.

The workplace of the future

Our building is environmentally friendly and people-friendly too, with excellent facilities designed to make work a pleasure.

Discover Northampton

Northampton is the perfect blend of town and country, a growing and thriving centre for business, and a wonderful place to live and work.

Multicultural ERGs at Barclays

Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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Application Process

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Your assessment

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Next step

We’ll request additional information so that you can complete our screening process

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Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

Learn more