Salesforce Project Manager/Scrum Master - Austin, United States - Comtec Consultants

Description

Job Title:
Salesforce Project Manager/Scrum Master

Location:
Customer preference for this candidate to be in any of these states: Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, or Mississippi (can work remotely)

Fulltime


Responsibilities:
Manage Salesforce projects
Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, and demos
Apply Agile delivery methodologies, standards and tools
Apply facilitation techniques to ensure effectiveness of the Scrum meetings
Schedule and facilitate daily scrum sessions
Ensure meeting outcomes are defined, understood and achieved for the Scrum meetings
Ensure stories for the sprint are playable (estimated, sized, prioritized)
Work with the Product Owner to prioritize and right-size stories in the Product Backlog
Facilitate the team's planning of the sprint based on prioritized stories, team capacity and historical velocity trends
Facilitate decision making based on Agile values and principles
Provide accurate project estimates and tightly manages project budget, approved funding, forecasts and actuals
Maintain focus on backlog and sprint timeline
Improve transparency within the team and broader organization
Track and remove team's impediments.
Inspire creative solutions that eliminate waste and improve team throughput.
Guide the team and broader organization on how to use Agile principles and values
Act as a leader to the scrum team
Track & assess team's performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
Ensure visibility of current work in progress by the team (stories and defects)
Proactively anticipate, recognize and detect items that may distract the team from completing the sprint
Ensure that the goals of the release and sprint are visible and understood by the team
Diagnose, understand, and facilitate team dynamics to optimize team performance
Assist in creating the user stories
Configure JIRA and track/manage user stories and defects
Provide solutions and continuous improvement opportunities to efficiently solve problems and provides critical thinking skills


Required:
5+ years of IT Scrum Master experience
5+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst, Developer or Technical Lead
Extensive experience leading scrum teams in the design and development of enterprise scale applications utilizing agile techniques
Demonstrated experience leading sprint planning in conjunction with the product owner
Extensive experience running standups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
Experienced in handling multiple scrum teams in a distributive Agile environment
Experience creating user stories
Proven ability to drive continuous improvements among the team while increasing velocity of delivery
Experience in leading hybrid Agile projects, where some work streams follow waterfall principles
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and concisely cross business delivery teams.
Excellent presentation skills with the ability to communicate with a broad set of constituencies, both technical and non-technical.
Must have experience managing Salesforce projects (preferably Marketing Cloud projects experience)