Salesforce Scrum Master

Robert Half's client in Tempe, Arizona, is seeking a Salesforce Scrum Master. Your primary focus is to guide performance, collaboration, and execution while working constructively within the team and with members of the organization.

What you’ll Do:

• Support multiple Scrum teams maintaining the organization’s Sales & Servicing technology including Salesforce, the organization’s public websites, and other applications
• Use Agile ceremonies that produce the benefits intended by the Agile framework, including planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams to provide high-quality products using inspect and adapt cycles.
• Accelerate the learning and growth of one or more distributed Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices, and guiding them to more predictable delivery of high-quality products.
• Oversee the use of an accurate, complete, readable, single source for artifacts and workflow information that we need to engage in planning, observe/monitor work in progress, and measure the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrum team level.
• Manage full alignment across dependent teams within a release train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence. Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies.
• Proactively identify and communicate impediments to expedite resolution.
• Promote scrum team accountability for ensuring the sprint commitment is less than / very close to the average velocity over the last four sprints, maximizing the likelihood of delivery on sprint.
• Solid foundational knowledge of Salesforce..
• Deep understanding of Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) with a strong focus on metrics, dashboards and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Significant experience working with Agile methodologies on large-scale, technically complex projects for a large enterprise.
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years’ Scrum Master experience.
• 3+ years’ experience working with Salesforce, preferably in a BA and/or Scrum Master role.
• Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts.
• Prior programming experience is a huge plus.
• Experience taking business requirements and writing technical requirements using BDD.
• Scrum and Kanban experience, working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.