Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Brno, Vlnena campus, Czech republic
 

About RWS:
RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.
Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.
Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.
Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).
For further information, please visit: www.rws.com 
 

About The Role:
We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master who will help us to foster Agile principles in our development team, which is working on our major product.

Our Scrum Masters focus on promoting and helping understand Scrum as a framework for better delivery of value within the whole company. They help development teams be self-organized and deliver high value while removing impediments and facilitating Scrum events.

Responsibilities: 

• Guide the team towards improving the way they work and encourage the team to be self-organizing and innovative
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies
• Ensure cross-team coordination happens and remove impediments when necessary
• Coach and mentor team members
• Liaise between architects, developers, testers, and UX designers
• Assist Product Owners and Project Managers
• Support our Product owners by ensuring that all members of the Scrum team understand our goals, scope, and product domain. Also, you would help them keep those backlogs up to date.
• Act as a champion of Agile methodologies for the team and within the organization

 

Requirements:

• You have prior experience working as a Scrum Master in an Agile, technical environment required.
• You are communicative, facilitative, assertive, and have the ability to bring transparency to team development.
• You have very good verbal and written English proficiency (B2 and above).
• You are based in Brno or you are able to commute to the office on a daily basis.

And last but not least, we endorse our RWS custom-tailored Scrum One, which is a specific implementation of the Scrum agile framework we created to suit the specific needs of our teams. In case you’d like to know us better, we suggest you visit our blog AMI (agile.moravia.com), where we publish articles, interviews, and reports from regular events we organize.

 

We offer:

• Competitive salary with quarterly bonuses
• A comprehensive benefits package (5 weeks of vacation, 2 sick days, meal vouchers, cafeteria plan).
• Flexible working hours (core time 10 am – 3 pm) and Home Office (upon agreement with manager).
• External training and a lot of internal training which offers opportunities to support your growth (e.g. Scrum, English language lessons).
• The opportunity to work on projects for some of the most innovative brands in the world, often before products are released to the general public
• Agile teams – you can work on a variety of projects and problems that interest you ( https://agile.moravia.com/ )
• Chance to put your ideas into practice and engage with hundreds of employees globally, therefore an English-speaking environment.
• New offices in the city center with relax zones and a big terrace with a grill. Parking place and bicycle room.

Does the position sound interesting? Send us your CV together with a short cover letter, so we can better understand your vision of future employment.
 

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch  

 
As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.