RELX

Scrum Master

South Africa · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerRELX
LocationSouth Africa
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted6 Oct 2026

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.

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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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