AGILE TRANSFORMATION LEAD

As a Barclays Agile Transformation Lead, you will be providing support to Barclays File Transfer environment, primarily managing and supporting IBM Sterling Connect Direct, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy and Perimeter Server and TIBCO® MFT platform. You will also be working with the design and business community to obtain the high level MFT requirements. These requirements are translated into low level Managed File Transfer designs and deliverables.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

WORKING FLEXIBLY

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes 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 career, 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 your hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances . Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

•  Advancing the agile journey for RFT with focus on practices that enable building high performing teams using Customer centricity and modern engineering practices

•  Driving Agile Transformation execution by adoption of best practices of scaled agile, horizon based product/project roadmaps, lean funding & backlog readiness

•  Build appropriate scaled agile models while keeping intact the risk, cyber and control agenda of the bank 

•  Build appropriate scaled agile models in collaboration with governance & audit procedures of the bank 

•  Ensure clarity in comms across multiple organizational levels on overall agile maturity plan and interim milestones achieved 

•  Effectively leverage Agile metrics such as quality, backlog health, time to market, etc. at portfolio, product & team levels to help prioritize work effectively 

•  Develop and guide a culture of talent development around ability to deliver at speed and scale against measurable business outcomes

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•  Has experience leading scaled agile transformations across Business, Product & Tech using large scale agile frameworks (LeSS, SAFe or Scrum@Scale)

•  5+ years of experience in leading scrum masters and/or coaches or has been one with knowledge of collaborative tools – JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams etc

•  3+ years of experience Agile strategic planning and/or Delivery experience

•  Excellent interpersonal & presentation skills and demonstrated ability to influence a vast range of stakeholders to adopt scaled agile methodology

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•  Understanding of program/project waterfall processes and driven operational change to agile ways of working

•  5+ years of experience in Consulting or leadership experience in Product/Business/Operations/Technology

•  Experience in modern application architecture and modern engineering practices and using OKR frameworks to demonstrate outcomes against goals

•  Experience communicating complex topics and solutioning complex problems to and with a diverse audience including senior- executives

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 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.