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Agile Coach

Pune, India

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Date live: 03/10/2026

Business Area: GTIS

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000094918

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Barclays Change

Change leads and oversees transformational change initiatives at Barclays. Your role will involve managing projects and programs that drive strategic improvements and ensure successful implementation of change across the organization.

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Join Barclays as an Agile Coach role, where 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. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.           

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

  • Expertise in Business Agility & SAFe implementation across multiple organisational layers

  • Demonstrated capability to coach at Teams, Teams of Teams (ToT), and Portfolio levels, aligning ways of working and governance to PI cadence, flow principles & value breakdown for early & iterative value delivery.

  • Proven experience coaching multiple product/delivery teams at scale to improve flow, predictability, and performance

  • Skilled at uplifting Agile maturity through regular maturity reviews and targeted coaching for continuous improvement, supporting Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Engineers, and RTEs, and embedding practices such as limiting WIP, reducing batch sizes, managing flow across Kanban boards, establishing clear intake–analysis–ready–in progress steps, and driving improvements in key metrics (lead/cycle time, predictability, quality, business value delivery).

  • Strong ability to embed customer centric product delivery behaviours within teams and leadership

  • Able to reinforce the product mindset —customer value, iterative value delivery, lean principles, hypothesis driven development, outcome-based planning and measurement, and translation of infrastructure related work into clearly articulated Business Epics, Capabilities, Features, and Stories that meet DoR/DoD expectations.

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

  • Experience coaching within complex change environments involving Programme–Product interaction

  • Understanding of handoff models (Team → ToT → Portfolio), ensuring alignment without losing product empowerment, end to end ownership, and ensuring flow across organisational boundaries while maintaining customer centric decision making.

  • Some understanding of infrastructure, platform, or engineering domain practices

  • Ability to advocate for “quality built in” behaviours, MVP aligned architecture practices, and collaboration with Engineering Managers, Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, ensuring Agile practices remain relevant and effective in technical delivery contexts.

  • Capability to influence senior stakeholders and participate in governance forums Using data to guide value-based prioritisation (including WSJF), flow decisions, and continuous improvement recommendations.

  • Proven ability to coach leadership in forming OKRs and using KPIs to track progress against the customer/business outcomes on their roadmap - assisting portfolio leads in making data-led investment decisions aligned to PI cadence.

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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Pune office.

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.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 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.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This is Barclays Pune

Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

This is Barclays Pune

Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

An innovative hub

It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

Working better together

Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

A place where you can belong

Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

An amazing place to work

Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

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Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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