Senior Atlassian Platform Architect: Jira & Confluence Lead

Datavant

Trenton (NJ)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Datavant is seeking an Atlassian Platform Architect to own the technical direction, architecture, health, and evolution of Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and the broader Atlassian ecosystem.

This senior, hands-on role blends enterprise architecture with delivery, defining the target architecture, governance, data standards, and implementing complex automations and integrations across the platform.

Qualifications

6–8 years experience leading Jira and the Atlassian ecosystem within a large or complex organisation.
Deep hands-on Jira Cloud and JSM expertise across workflows, schemes, custom fields, permissions, automation, security and project configuration.
Strong technical experience with Forge, REST APIs, webhooks, workflow extensions and enterprise integrations.

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, duplicate objects and inconsistent patterns.
Design and implement complex solutions using Jira Automation, Rovo, ScriptRunner, REST APIs, webhooks and Marketplace applications.