Remote Atlassian Platform Architect - Jira & Confluence Lead

Datavant; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking an Atlassian Platform Architect to own the technical direction and evolution of Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and the wider Atlassian ecosystem. This senior, hands-on role combines enterprise architecture with delivery, defining target architecture, governance, and data standards while personally delivering complex automations and integrations.

You will lead remediation, reduce technical debt, and partner with IT, Security, and Engineering to translate

Qualifications

• 6-8 years experience leading Jira and Atlassian ecosystem.
• Deep hands-on Jira Cloud and JSM across workflows, schemes, custom fields, permissions, automation, security and project configuration.
• Strong technical experience with Forge, REST APIs, webhooks and enterprise integrations.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture, platform governance, configuration standards and reusable design patterns.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target architecture, technical strategy and prioritized roadmap for Jira, JSM, Confluence and the wider Atlassian ecosystem.
• Establish enterprise standards for data models, workflows, schemes, fields, permissions, automation, integrations, reporting and naming conventions.
• Take ownership of platform health and lead remediation of configuration sprawl, technical debt and inconsistent patterns.
• Design and implement complex solutions using Jira Automation, Forge, REST APIs, webhooks and marketplace apps.
• Define JSM and ITSM architecture supporting service requests, incidents, problems, changes, knowledge and asset management.
• Establish integration standards covering APIs, identity systems, authentication, data ownership, monitoring and recovery.
• Define security, privacy, availability, recoverability, performance, data-retention and audit requirements.
• Introduce architecture reviews, change controls and lifecycle-management processes.
• Lead major platform remediation, consolidation, migration, redesign and integration initiatives.
• Evaluate Marketplace applications and Atlassian capabilities including Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo for security and maintainability.
• Partner with IT, Security, Privacy, Compliance, Enterprise Systems, Product and Engineering to translate requirements into solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to Jira admins, review changes, mentor the team and own high-risk work.
• Act as senior escalation point for architectural issues and platform risks.

Skills

Jira Cloud

JSM

Confluence

Automation

REST APIs

Rovo

ScriptRunner

Tools

Forge

Rovo

ScriptRunner

Job description

Datavant is seeking an Atlassian Platform Architect to own the technical direction and evolution of Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and the wider Atlassian ecosystem. This senior, hands-on role combines enterprise architecture with delivery, defining target architecture, governance, and data standards while personally delivering complex automations and integrations.

You will lead remediation, reduce technical debt, and partner with IT, Security, and Engineering to translate