What will you be doing?
Barclays Services LLC seeks Delivery Team Lead - AVP (multiple positions) in Whippany, NJ:
Facilitate and continuously improve Agile ceremonies, ensuring they are well‑structured, time‑boxed, and outcome‑driven.
Perform Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, and Program Increment (PI) events.
Serve as subject matter expert and mentor for junior team members on Agile, Lean, and SAFe principles, ensuring correct and consistent application of Scrum and Kanban practices, flow‑based delivery, and Lean‑Agile mindset.
Identify, address and remove impediments to delivery, proactively addressing blockers, risks, dependencies, and systemic issues.
Escalate and coordinate with the RTE, other Scrum Masters, and ART‑level forums when impediments exceed team boundaries.
Partner closely with the Product Owner to optimize execution, supporting effective backlog refinement, story readiness (Definition of Ready), capacity and sprint planning, and delivery execution while reinforcing clear accountability between product ownership and process facilitation.
Enable PI Planning and Inspect & Adapt readiness and execution, ensuring the squad enters PI events with refined features and stories, clear capacity assumptions, understood dependencies, and measurable PI Objectives; track and support follow‑through on PI commitments and improvement actions.
Represent the squad in scaled Agile forums, including Scrum of Scrums and other ART‑level ceremonies, providing transparent, data‑driven updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery confidence.
Ensure accuracy, consistency, and transparency in Agile tooling (e.g., Jira) by maintaining high‑quality data across workflows, statuses, ownership, and dates to support reliable reporting of delivery health, flow, and risk at team, ART, and portfolio levels.
Support squads working on Oracle‑based platforms by ensuring Agile delivery practices align with database‑driven development, release coordination, data dependencies, and environment readiness across sprint and PI execution.
Enable effective Agile delivery for Ab Initio ETL and data integration workloads by managing dependencies, flow of data pipelines, and coordination across upstream/downstream systems while maintaining transparency of progress, risks, and delivery metrics.
Minimum Salary: $155,854.00 per year
Maximum Salary: $165,854.00 per year
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes 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 a 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.
Purpose of the role
To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.
Accountabilities
- Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
- Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
- Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
- Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
- Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
- Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.
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.
