We have a nice opportunity for a 1-4 year Scrum Master on a Salesforce development team.

Salesforce experience is a nice to have but not a need to have!

This project is an Enterprise Salesforce rollout which has been going strong for 2+ years.

Contract will go 1+ year. Strong 10+ person team in place.

Can be remote.

Employee friendly culture.

Please check out the JD and feel free to reach out if you're a good fit!

Thanks!

Rob Mueller

Tesoro Group

The Scrum Master is responsible for the coordination and monitoring of the scrum process with a focus on delivery.

The overall purpose of this role is to increase team efficiency, increase process improvement and lead cross-functional teams to meet well-defined goals.

This role works closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to deliver planned goals.

• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution utilizing various engagement approaches to meet the need of the team objective

• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization

• Facilitating with the other departments to achieve project/release goals for the scrum team

• Facilitating the removal of impediments by finding the right personnel to engage to take action on the impediment

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices by delivering focused agile process training as needed.

• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization by providing tools, approaches and experiential learning to the team

• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, using various industry standard agile metrics to measure progress • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

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  Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information internally to drive team process maturity and team progress externally.

• Assisting and educating the IT Product Manager, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

• Establishes a Working Agreement, an early Sprint plan and then progressively refines the Product Backlog with the IT Product Manager

• Conducts Sprint Planning to define scope, groom the backlog with the IT Product Manager and the team and define the Release plan

• Assists the scrum team to promote clear story writing and product backlog story grooming • Facilitates 'ceremonies' (planning, retrospectives, reviews, stand-ups) • Performs other relevant job duties as required.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline or a combination of relevant IT experience and education
  

Experience:

• Experience working in an agile methodology such as Scrum or Kanban

• Experience in a leadership position or influencing outcomes

• Experience creating roadmaps

• Jira, Gitlab, Gitflow concepts and confluence for wiki documentation

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities:

• Scrum framework, Kanban, and Agile practices

• Organizational skills

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to coordinate across teams

• Ability to change rapidly and preserve flexibility to respond to changes

• Ability to work independently and break down assigned work into workable tasks and delegate as appropriate

• Communication skills written and verbal

• Ability to collaborate across teams to achieve results