Junior Scrum Master

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer's market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world. Wolters Kluwer combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right. The Junior Scrum Master provides effective collaboration, facilitation, servant leadership, and coaching skills that directly impact our Agile development process and the delivery of our applications. As a Junior Scrum Master you will be responsible for enforcing Agile “best practices,” removing impediments, and promoting empowerment amongst team members. The Junior Scrum Master is a servant leader with the demeanor and acumen to handle almost any situation faced by our development teams. Responsibilities: * As a Junior Scrum Master working with two Innovation or Feature teams, you will have a central role in helping our teams execute agile product and development practices and ensure they can work together effectively across teams and geographies * Support teams to growing their understanding of, and in executing Agile practices to deliver product and speed innovation velocity * Teach the teams Agile practices, facilitate Scrum ceremonies, centralize and escalate impediments and shield them from external distractions * Participate in Scrum of Scrums (Product Area Alignment) to identify, track and resolve interdependencies and external impediments * Ensure teams’ actions are aligned with the project goals / vision of the company / Program Increment * Bring transparency across teams around development to help with collaboration and grow trust with stakeholders * You live and breathe agile. You’ve seen what it looks like when a team isn’t quite there yet and you know how it feels when a team ‘gets it’. Most importantly, you know how to help teams improve with the nuts and bolts of agile ceremonies as much as with the underlying mindset * You’re a listener. You hear what’s not being said and have a gift for understanding motivations and resolving interpersonal conflicts * You’re humble and take a real satisfaction in seeing others succeed * You’re determined in the face of resistance and find alternative ways to succeed if your initial approach fails * You know how to get organizations to work for you; you build relationships and can represent your team’s concerns in a convincing way and ensure their issues are resolved * You have your eye on the organization’s objectives and can explain why things which seem strange to the team make sense from a broader perspective * You will be supervised, coached and mentored by a Senior or a Medior Scrum Master based in Paris and reporting to the Agile Leader based in Paris too. Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (1-3 years professional experience) of working in SCRUM environment. Experience as a developer or QA is a plus * Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) * Knowledgeable about various Agile methodologies and experienced in coaching Scrum and Kanban teams * Experience of configuring and optimizing usage of agile backlog management software like Azure DevOps or Jira * Ideally ITIL or PMP certified, certification on SAFe (4.6 or 5) would be appreciated * Experience working in a scaled agile framework or product organization with Scrum of Scrums ceremony or equivalent * You’re fluent in English and have experience in intercultural management (US, NDL)