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 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 escalate 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 Assistant Vice President Expectations 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. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes. 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. Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Scrum Master - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will serve as a key liaison between Digital Asset Technology and business stakeholders, driving the successful delivery of strategic projects through a combination of business analysis, Agile leadership, and program coordination. You will partner with cross-functional teams to gather and translate requirements into actionable work, facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage delivery flow, and ensure alignment across engineering, product, architecture, risk, compliance, and operations. The ideal candidate brings considerable analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to identify risks, remove delivery impediments, and support high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced, complex technology environment. To be successful as a Senior Scrum Master - AVP, you should have experience: Considerable analytical and requirements-management skills, with experience translating business and technology needs into structured requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery priorities Experience supporting Agile/Scrum technology delivery, including facilitation of ceremonies, backlog management, iteration execution, dependency management, and continuous improvement Good stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across technical, business, and control function Ample organizational and problem-solving capabilities, with experience managing delivery metrics, risks, issues, governance, and reporting across multiple workstream Other highly valued skills include: Understanding of Digital Asset Technology, including blockchain/DLT, tokenization, tokenized deposits, wallets, custody, and on-chain settlement Experience within payments, capital markets, financial services, or other regulated technology environments Experience with Agile delivery and work-management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms Agile or analysis-related certifications such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, ECBA/CCBA/CBAP, or equivalent You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office. Minimum Salary: $115,000 Maximum Salary: $155,000 The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available. Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances. This position is eligible for an incentive award. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

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