Barclays
Global Transaction Banking
AgileAcademy&Trainers-VP
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“Agile Academy & Trainers - VP at Barclays. Skills: Agile practices, Agile methodologies, Agile transformation, Agile coaching, CI/CD pipeline design, DevOps tooling, leadership. Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices. foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies, facilitating collaboration, and removing barriers to efficiency”
What You'll Achieve.
enhance team performance; drive continuous improvement; support long-term, sustainable Agile transformations; delivering value to the client / customers; drive cultural change; foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning; identify opportunities for improvement and growth; continually improve maturity levels across the organisation; revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences; execute the agile transformation
Industry & Context.
removing barriers to efficiency; identify and address impediments
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proven leadership experience in large-scale agile and engineering transformations within global organisations, expertise in CI/CD pipeline design, branching strategies, and DevOps tooling, Experience enabling sprint-0 readiness, backlog preparation, and engineering standards adoption at scale, Demonstrated success in supporting transformation offices or Ways of Working functions, Ability to coach and enable Product Owners, Engineers, and Leaders in both strategy and technical practices, Excellent communication, execution, and facilitation skills, with stakeholder management, understanding of scaled agile frameworks, solid coaching experience in complex organisations, demonstrate flexibility in applying frameworks, provide psychological safety to teams undergoing transformation, clear evidence of having acted as a coach in the true sense rather than a practitioner, Understanding or awareness about engineering practices, branching strategies, metrics, devops CI: CD to facilitate and enable tech teams, Agile transformation lead will influence and work closely with CIO/Tech teams to execute the agile transformation
Nice to Have
Agile certified – SAFe – SPC, IC Agile preferred, Professional certifications in Agile (SPC, ICAgile) and/or DevOps (AWS, Azure, Jenkins, Git, etc.), Familiarity with enterprise agile metrics (flow, predictability, lead time, deployment frequency), Experience balancing transformation with compliance, risk, and control requirements in a regulated industry, technical background or work experience will be good to have but not mandatory
What You'll Do.
and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices
foster an Agile mindset
enhance team performance
and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies
facilitating collaboration
and removing barriers to efficiency
Align Agile practices with organisational goals and support long-term
sustainable Agile transformations
Mentor and coach: Guide teams and leaders on Agile principles
and methodologies in alignment to the Business Unit’s strategic needs and delivering value to the client / customers
Facilitate Colleague Development: Coach and Develop colleagues to embed Agile ways of working
championing an Agile mindset and behaviors to drive cultural change
Build High-Performing Teams: Help teams identify and address impediments to Agile execution and foster a culture of collaboration
and continuous learning
Continuous Improvement: Use data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and growth
Cross Business Collaboration: Collaborate with other Agile Coaches
share best practice and contribute to a network of Agile champions across Business Units
Agile Adoption: Own the Agile coaching strategy to continually improve maturity levels across the organisation by embedding best practices
spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape
driving innovation and excellence
harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings
ensuring unapparelled customer experiences
Set up agile academy - trainings
Facilitating the transition to new agile methodologies at teams
and team of teams levels
Enable sprint-0 readiness
and engineering standards adoption at scale
Coach and enable Product Owners
and Leaders in both strategy and technical practices
Influence and work closely with CIO/Tech teams to execute the agile transformation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Facilitating collaboration; Cross Business Collaboration; Collaborate with other Agile Coaches; contribute to a network of Agile champions across Business Units; work closely with CIO/Tech teams; stakeholder management
Communication Scope
Excellent communication; facilitation skills
Process & Methodology
Agile transformation
Full Job Description
# **Job Description** **Purpose of the role** Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices. To foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies, facilitating collaboration, and removing barriers to efficiency. Align Agile practices with organisational goals and support long-term, sustainable Agile transformations. **Accountabilities** * Mentor and coach : Guide teams and leaders on Agile principles, practices, tools, and methodologies in alignment to the Business Unit’s strategic needs and delivering value to the client / customers * Facilitate Colleague Development: Coach and Develop colleagues to embed Agile ways of working, championing an Agile mindset and behaviors to drive cultural change * Build High-Performing Teams: Help teams identify and address impediments to Agile execution and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning * Continuous Improvement: Use data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and growth * Cross Business Collaboration: Collaborate with other Agile Coaches, share best practice and contribute to a network of Agile champions across Business Units * Agile Adoption: Own the Agile coaching strategy to continually improve maturity levels across the organisation by embedding best practices. Embark on a transformative journey as an Agile Academy & Trainers - VP at the Forefront of Innovation in Global Transaction Banking at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. Agile Transformation role expectation- 1.Set up agile academy - trainings, operating model 2.Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices. To foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive cont
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