Scrum Master (London)

Job Description

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Scrum Master

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Excited to coach, facilitate, and ignite high‐performing teams?
Do you enjoy fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and a culture where every sprint counts?

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About the team:

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LexisNexis Intellectual Property, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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About the role:

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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.

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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.

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Key Responsibilities:

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Team-Level Delivery and Flow

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• \nServe as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, ensuring effective adoption of Scrum and Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban as appropriate).\n

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• \nOwn team-level delivery governance and predictability, ensuring clear goals, realistic planning, and transparent signals on scope, risks, and progress.\n

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• \nEnsure work is visible, prioritized, and flowing through the system (e.g., backlogs, boards, WIP limits).\n

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• \nHelp teams create realistic sprint goals or flow targets and meet commitments sustainably.\n

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• \nDefine and maintain team-level delivery metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time, defect trends; DORA metrics where appropriate).\n

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• \nIdentify and make visible impediments impacting throughput or quality – both within and outside the team – and drive resolution in partnership with Engineering, Product, TPMs, and Product Operations.\n

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Agile Facilitation and Coaching

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• \nFacilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.\n

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• \nCoach teams on Agile principles, self-organization, and continuous improvement.\n

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• \nFoster a culture of trust, accountability, psychological safety, and constructive challenge.\n

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• \nSupport Product Owners and Product Managers in effective backlog management and value-based slicing of work.\n

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• \nUse data and experiments to evolve ways of working rather than enforcing a process for its own sake.\n

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Metrics, Insights, and Continuous Improvement

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• \nUse quantitative and qualitative insights to identify bottlenecks, risks, and improvement opportunities.\n

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• \nFacilitate outcome-focused retrospectives and ensure follow-through on improvement actions.\n

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• \nProvide clear, concise status, risk, and dependency signals to stakeholders, framed in terms of business impact.\n

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• \nWhere applicable, create and maintain delivery dashboards and queries in Agile tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps).\n

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Cross-Team and Stakeholder Partnership

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• \nOwn cross-team coordination for work involving supported teams, ensuring dependencies, sequencing, and risks are understood and managed collaboratively.\n

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• \nPartner with Product Operations and TPMs by providing accurate team- and cluster-level plans, capacity, and risk signals.\n

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• \nRepresent team realities in planning and prioritization forums.\n

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• \nCollaborate with Design, Security, Data, and other functions to improve end-to-end delivery.\n

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• \nContribute to the evolution of Agile practices as the organization scales.\n

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What Success Looks Like

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• \nTeams operate with clear goals, healthy cadence, and a sustainable pace.\n

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• \nDelivery is predictable at the team and local cross-team level, with risks raised early and transparently.\n

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• \nTeams regularly identify and implement meaningful improvements to how they work.\n

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• \nAgile ceremonies are purposeful, engaging, and outcome-focused.\n

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• \nProduct, Engineering, TPMs, and Product Operations view the Scrum Master as a trusted delivery partner - not an extra layer of process.\n

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Requirements:

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Required Skills -

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• \nHands-on experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting software engineering teams.\n

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• \nStrong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and modern engineering practices.\n

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• \nProven facilitation and coaching skills; able to navigate conflict and drive clear outcomes.\n

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• \nComfort with delivery metrics and basis analytics; ability to translate data into decisions.\n

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• \nExcellent written and verbal communication skills; able to adapt messaging for engineers, product leaders, and executives.\n

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• \nAbility to influence without authority and build strong cross-functional partnerships.\n

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Preferred Skills -

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• \nExperience working alongside Product Operations and Technical Program Managers in a portfolio or platform environment.\n

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• \nExperience supporting multiple teams or operating in scaled Agile environments.\n

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• \nFamiliarity with Agile tooling (e.g., Aha, Azure DevOps).\n

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• \nBackground in software development, QA, or a related technical discipline.\n

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• \nAgile certifications (e.g., CSM, PSM, KMP) are a plus but not a substitute for practical experience.\n

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Why Join Us?

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Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

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Work in a way that works for you

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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.

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• \nWorking 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.\n

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Working for you

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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:

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• \nGenerous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.\n

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• \nHealth screening, eye care vouchers, and private medical benefits\n

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• \nWellbeing programs\n

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• \nLife assurance\n

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• \nAccess to a competitive contributory pension scheme\n

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• \nSave As You Earn share option scheme.\n

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• \nTravel Season ticket loan.\n

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• \nElectric Vehicle Scheme\n

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• \nOptional Dental Insurance\n

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• \nMaternity, paternity, and shared parental leave\n

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• \nEmployee Assistance Programme\n

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• \nAccess to emergency care for both the elderly and children\n

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• \nRECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you.\n

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• \nAccess to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.\n

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• \nAccess to extensive learning and development resources\n

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• \nAccess to the employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work\n

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About the business-

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At LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), we believe that whenever a person works on a patent and understands the future trajectory of a specific technology, that person has the potential to fundamentally change how society operates. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve superior results. By harnessing the latest advances in machine learning combined with expert analysis, LexisNexis Intellectual Property is disrupting how actionable insight is extracted from patent data. Information can now be accessed with efficiency, accuracy, and at a speed that is just not possible by traditional methods. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results.

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We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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