**Scrum Master**
Thomson Reuters is looking for a Scrum Master to coordinate and coach our software development and tax solution migration team.
**About the Role**
- Manage a huge project development and migration scope and timeline, for big corporations and companies.
- Plan and facilitate sprint ceremonies including planning, refinement, demo, retrospective, and daily stand-up meetings
- Guide, coach and motivate the team to be highly effective, self-organized, productive and accountable, with an emphasis on achieving sprint commitments
- Partner with product owner/product manager to effectively create, maintain and refine the product backlog
- Facilitate communication channels for the Scrum/Kanban teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure the vision, goals, progress and product delivery commitments are visible and well understood
- Identify and remove impediments and blockers that prevents the teams from delivering their sprint goals
- Teach, mentor, and facilitate Scrum and Kanban practices within the team as well as Agile Values and Principles
- Manage the team dependencies and coordinate work with other internal or external teams
- Set and continually manage expectations with team members and other stakeholders Monitor progress and team performance throughout the life of the project and monitor and manage project scope and deliverables
- Maintain relevant metrics and information radiators to guide the development teams and show their progress in meeting business objectives
- Manage a huge program including development and migration scope, for big corporations and companies.
**About You**
- Bachelor's Degree or diploma
- Demonstrable 3-5 years hands-on experienced with Scrum and Kanban methodologies
- Good interpersonal skills and ability work with a mentor and servant-leader mindset Former experience as a project manager and knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs
- Experience providing facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, team empowerment and motivational techniques regarding Agile and Scrum/Kanban
- Must be a certified Scrum Master, holding either a PSM or CSM
- Experience managing expectations and building trusting relationships/partnerships
- Ability to balance several projects across more than one team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
**Desired Skills**:
- Be an energetic, self-starter, who is comfortable in a team-oriented environment including the ability to clearly articulate daily individual accomplishments and blocking issues.
- Demonstrated history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated history of good decision-making, conflict resolution, and follow through
**Related technologies to the project**:
- Oracle Database (SQL/PLSQL)
- SQL Windows
- Java
- ADO, Git; EasyBi, PowerBI, A-ha
- ABAP
**What's in it **F**or **Y**ou**?
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You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your
personal and professional growth through:
- ** COVID-19 Response**: Currently many of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
- ** Culture**: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
- ** Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- ** 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**: Eight 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 have 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.
- Optional_ - compensation.
Compensation may only be relevant for certain positions and is recommended for use primarily by Sales:
**Compensation**: Base salary and variable compensation that is related to your success
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