Sr Scrum Master

**Senior Scrum Master**
Commercial Engineering is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join our team at Thomson Reuters. The Scrum Master will be responsible for leading multiple scrum teams, facilitate and support the scrum process, and ensure that the team adheres to its principles and practices.

**About the Role**:
As a **Senior Scrum Master**, you will:

- Be a servant-leader for multiple scrum teams and empower them by focusing on their needs foremost and building a foundation of trust.
- Coach scrum teams to follow agile practices and self-organize, self-manage, and reach a higher level of scrum maturity.
- Create a high performing environment by resolving conflict, removing impediments, and identifying areas of continuous improvement.
- Facilitate scrum events such as sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups.
- Work cross-functionally with product owners to create and maintain the product backlogs.
- Communicate with stakeholders the timelines, risks, and progress of the teams.
- Be data-driven and make empirical decisions at every step.
- Shield the team from external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity.
- Anticipate and address potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges).

**About You**:
You’re a fit for the role of **Sr Scrum Master** if you have:
Basic qualifications:

- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in a Product Development and delivery organization
- In-depth knowledge of Agile practices including the Scrum framework
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills and the ability to influence people at various levels.
- Track record of guiding high performing scrum teams to deliver SaaS products.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

- Experience in a leadership role (Scrum Master, Team Lead) with strong understanding of Scrum/Agile principles.
- Business System domain knowledge is highly desirable.
- Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex messages and teach new concepts.
- Experience working with global teams.
- Proven ability to lead a team to a successful project delivery.

**What's in it For You?**

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

- ** Hybrid Work Model**: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
- ** Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- ** Culture**:Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- ** Learning & Development**:LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- ** Social Impact**:Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- ** Purpose Driven Work**:We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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