Remote Atlassian Platform Lead: Jira & Confluence Expert

DecisionPoint Corporation

Reston (VA)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an Atlassian Platform & Configuration Management Lead to serve as the subject matter expert for Jira and Confluence and to chair the Task's Change Control Board. The role will configure and administer Jira projects, workflows, boards, backlogs, dashboards, and automation while establishing knowledge-management spaces in Confluence.

This senior position is fully remote and requires strong governance and stakeholder-communication skills to manage change

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, business, or a related field.
At least 7 years of relevant professional experience.
At least 5 years of hands-on Jira administration and configuration experience.
Significant hands-on experience administering Confluence.
Demonstrated experience independently building and configuring Jira projects, workflows, boards, and backlogs.
Advanced knowledge of Jira workflows, issue types, custom fields, permissions, dashboards, filters, automation, and JQL.

Responsibilities

Serve as Jira and Confluence SME and administrator.
Design, build, configure, and maintain Jira projects supporting multiple products, projects, and teams.
Configure Jira workflows, issue types, custom fields, screens, permissions, notifications, components, versions, and project roles.
Create and maintain Scrum and Kanban boards, team backlogs, product backlogs, and project backlogs.
Establish consistent structures for capabilities, epics, stories, tasks, subtasks, defects, risks, dependencies, releases, and change requests.
Develop advanced JQL queries, filters, dashboards, reports, and Jira automation.
Identify and correct duplicate, stale, improperly assigned, incorrectly categorized, or poorly structured backlog items.
Establish Jira standards, templates, naming conventions, workflows, and governance across the program.
Create and administer Confluence spaces, templates, page structures, permissions, navigation, and documentation standards.
Integrate Jira and Confluence to provide traceability between work items, requirements, decisions, technical documentation, and change requests.
Serve as the operational lead and secretariat for the Change Control Board (CCB).
Manage change requests from submission and impact analysis through CCB review, approval, implementation, validation, and closure.
Coordinate technical, schedule, cybersecurity, operational, testing, and dependency impact assessments for proposed changes.
Prepare CCB agendas, change packages, decision materials, and supporting documentation.
Facilitate CCB meetings and document approvals, rejections, deferrals, decisions, and action items.
Ensure approved changes are traceable to Jira work items, documentation, releases, requirements, and applicable configuration baselines.
Track CCB actions and approved changes through implementation and closure.
Develop dashboards and metrics providing program leadership visibility into backlogs, changes, CCB actions, dependencies, releases, and work status.
Train and support Product Owners, Scrum Masters, project managers, technical teams, and other users in effective Jira and Confluence practices.
Continuously improve Jira, Confluence, backlog-management, and change-control processes.