Scrum Master

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2 Locations
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Entry level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Serve as Scrum Master for Agile software engineering teams, facilitating ceremonies, coaching teams, improving delivery flow, and supporting predictable, sustainable outcomes. Manage team-level delivery governance, backlogs, dependencies, risks, and sequencing. Use delivery metrics, dashboards, and analytics to identify bottlenecks and inform decisions while partnering with Engineering, Product, TPMs, and Product Operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you passionate about helping Agile engineering teams deliver meaningful outcomes while continuously improving how they work?
Do you enjoy coaching teams, enabling collaboration, and creating the conditions for high performance in a fast-evolving technology environment?

About our Team

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each and every day, the work our team does supports the development of new technologies and processes that ultimately advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations and ultimately achieve superior results. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.

About the Role

As a Scrum Master, you will enable one or more cross-functional product engineering teams to deliver value predictably and sustainably. You will champion Agile ways of working, facilitate effective collaboration, and use data-driven insights to support continuous improvement. Working closely with Engineering, Product, TPMs, and Product Operations, you will help teams achieve clear goals, manage dependencies, and maintain a healthy delivery cadence.

Responsibilities

- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, supporting effective adoption of Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban practices.
- Own team-level delivery governance and predictability, ensuring clear goals, realistic planning, and transparent progress tracking.
- Ensure work is visible, prioritized, and flowing effectively through backlogs, boards, and work management systems.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
- Coach teams on Agile principles, self-organization, continuous improvement, and sustainable delivery practices.
- Use qualitative and quantitative insights to identify bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies, risks, and sequencing in partnership with stakeholders.
- Create and maintain delivery metrics, dashboards, and reporting to support informed decision-making.

Requirements

- Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting software engineering teams.

- Technical background and experience working with technology teams; able to understand technical terminology. 
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban, and modern engineering practices.
- Proven facilitation and coaching skills with the ability to navigate conflict and drive clear outcomes.
- Comfort working with delivery metrics and basic analytics, with the ability to translate data into decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to adapt communication for engineers, product leaders, and executives.
- Ability to influence without authority and build strong cross-functional partnerships.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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Skills Required

  • Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting software engineering teams
  • Technical background and experience working with technology teams; ability to understand technical terminology
  • Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, and modern engineering practices
  • Proven facilitation and coaching skills, including navigating conflict and driving clear outcomes
  • Comfort working with delivery metrics and basic analytics, translating data into decisions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to adapt communication for engineers, product leaders, and executives
  • Ability to influence without authority and build strong cross-functional partnerships

RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.

  • Retirement Support Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.

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The Company
HQ: London
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1880

What We Do

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.

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