Senior Jira Automation Architect (Remote, EMEA)

Canonical Ltd.; København; Remote; DKK 520,000 - 860,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Learning budget $2,000 USD per year

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Jira Administrator to manage Jira Cloud and automate processes across the organization, enabling data-driven decisions. The role sits in the Commercial Systems team, collaborating with engineering, operations, and support teams globally.

You will design integrations, create dashboards, and develop learning resources while maintaining rigorous documentation and stakeholder management. Remote work across EMEA is supported, with periodic travel for events.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira and its ecosystem as an administrator.
• Understanding of common Jira usage patterns for various technical and non-technical departments.
• Experience as a software developer in Python.
• Professional written and spoken English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

Responsibilities

• Manage Atlassian Jira Cloud at Canonical.
• Design, document, and implement processes and automation in Jira.
• Design, document, and implement integrations between Jira and the data warehouse.
• Create analytical dashboards to enable stakeholders make data-driven decisions.
• Create learning resources that scale.
• Work with engineering, operations, and support teams at a global scale.
• Take ownership of critical escalations and resolve them in a timely manner.

Skills

Jira administration

Python development

English proficiency

Remote collaboration

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Academic excellence

Education

Strong academic record (high school and university)

Tools

Jira Cloud

Python

Airbyte

Temporal

Go

Salesforce

NetSuite

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Jira Administrator to manage Jira Cloud and automate processes across the organization, enabling data-driven decisions. The role sits in the Commercial Systems team, collaborating with engineering, operations, and support teams globally.

You will design integrations, create dashboards, and develop learning resources while maintaining rigorous documentation and stakeholder management. Remote work across EMEA is supported, with periodic travel for events.