# Senior Agile Delivery Lead - AVP

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Whippany, NJ
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,000 - $155,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Agile Delivery Lead - AVP to join our Digital Asset Technology organisation. As a trusted partner to Digital Asset Technology leadership, you will help translate strategy into execution while ensuring alignment across engineering, architecture, product, operations, risk, compliance, legal, and external partners.

**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 and build trust with stakeholders

- Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable

**Requirements**

- Proven leadership with exceptional communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills, effectively influencing senior leaders and driving strategic outcomes

- Extensive experience serving as a Chief of Staff, Program Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, or similar role, leading complex projects from planning through execution

- Demonstrated success aligning cross-functional teams across engineering, architecture, product, business, legal, risk, compliance, and operations to achieve shared objectives

- Considerable background facilitating Agile delivery practices across large-scale technology programs, ensuring on-time execution, transparency, and continuous improvement

- Expertise in executive governance, reporting, financial and workforce planning, delivery metrics, risk management, and data-driven decision-making in fast-paced, evolving environments

**Preferred Skills**

- Considerable understanding of digital asset platforms, blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, digital custody solutions, wallet technologies, and distributed ledger ecosystems

- Experience working with digital asset service providers, including custody platforms, wallet solutions, settlement networks, and DLT infrastructure vendors to support enterprise projects

- Knowledge of payments, brokerage, capital markets, liquidity management, settlement, and post-trade operating models within financial services environments

- Proven ability to operate within highly regulated organisations, managing third-party/vendor governance, compliance requirements, and risk considerations

- Experience leading large-scale technology transformation programs with executive visibility and cross-functional coordination, complemented by Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe RTE, or equivalent

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental and vision coverage

- 401(k)

- Life insurance

- Paid leave for qualifying circumstances

- Eligible for an incentive award

## Skills

### Required
- Agile delivery
- Scrum
- stakeholder management
- governance
- risk management

### Nice to have
- digital asset platforms
- blockchain infrastructure
- tokenization
- Agile certifications

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