Delivery Team Lead - AVP

About the role

Barclays Services LLC seeks Delivery Team Lead - AVP (multiple positions) in Whippany, NJ.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Pay

• Minimum Salary: $155,854.00 per year
• Maximum Salary: $165,854.00 per year
• This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life insurance
• Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances