Scrum Master

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Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
In-Office
Mid level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Serve as Scrum Master for one or more cross-functional engineering teams, facilitating Agile ceremonies, improving delivery predictability, coaching on Agile practices, identifying and removing bottlenecks, coordinating dependencies, and partnering with Product Operations and TPMs to translate portfolio priorities into realistic team-level execution.
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About our Team 

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. 
 

About the Role

We are looking for a Scrum Master to enable high-performing, autonomous product engineering teams. This role sits within the Engineering organization and is embedded with one or two cross-functional squads.

The Scrum Master is accountable for how teams work – facilitating effective Agile practices, improving flow and predictability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and psychological safety. As a servant-leader and delivery partner, the Scrum Master works closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Product Operations (including Technical Program Managers) to ensure portfolio priorities translate into realistic, sustainable execution at the team level.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, ensuring effective adoption of Scrum and Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban as appropriate).
  • Own team-level delivery governance and predictability, ensuring clear goals, realistic planning, and transparent signals on scope, risks and progress.
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
  • Coach teams on Agile principles, self-organization, and continuous improvement.
  • Use quantitative and qualitative insights to identify bottlenecks, risks, and improvement opportunities.
  • Facilitate outcome-focused retrospectives and ensure follow-through on improvement actions.
  • Own cross-team coordination for work involving supported teams, ensuring dependencies, sequencing, and risks are understood and managed collaboratively.
  • Partner with Product Operations and TPMs by providing accurate team- and cluster-level plans, capacity, and risk signals.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience as a scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting software engineering teams.
  • Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and modern engineering practices.
  • Proven facilitation and coaching skills; able to navigate conflict and drive clear outcomes.
  • Comfort with delivery metrics and basis analytics; ability to translate data into decisions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to adapt messaging for engineers, product leaders, and executives.
  • Ability to influence without authority and build strong cross-functional partnerships.
  • Familiarity with Agile tooling (e.g., Aha!, Azure DevOps).
  • Background in software development, QA, or a related technical discipline.

Work in a way that works for you 
 We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 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 

 
Working for you 
 We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: 

  • Medical Aid 
  • Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover) 
  • Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy 
  • Study Leave 

 
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
  • Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Proven facilitation and coaching skills; able to navigate conflict and drive outcomes
  • Comfort with delivery metrics and basic analytics; ability to translate data into decisions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for engineers, product leaders, and executives
  • Ability to influence without authority and build strong cross-functional partnerships
  • Familiarity with Agile tooling (e.g., Aha!, Azure DevOps)
  • Background in software development, QA, or a related technical discipline

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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