Jira and Atlassian Solutions Engineer (Backend IT Developer III) Redmond , WA, 98053 Contract Remote 7 months 3-7 years Summary This job post is for a remote position in the US, specifically for a backend developer with a minimum of 5 years of experience managing the Atlassian Product Suite, including end-to-end Jira configuration. The successful candidate should have experience with Python scripting in Rest API (Jira cloud) and a good understanding of the workflow configuration and the future dev lifecycle. Experience with Groovy is also acceptable. The role involves working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, and testing implementation projects. The key priorities for the first 3 to 6 months include starting from the fundamentals, discussing structure, going through the existing Jira workflow, planning items, project discussions, roadmap planning, launch approval process, resource planning, automation/scripting, pulling information from Salesforce, and building tableau reports. Experience with integrating Jira with external Enterprise systems is important, with typical integration scenarios involving Jira OAuth. Any datacentre experience is not relevant and will be a disqualifier. It is also important that the candidate is responsive and has great communication skills. Roles & Responsibilities You will drive governance and hygiene standards to make the Jira environment a highly performant, purpose optimized and consistent environment for all teams. You will design and implement solutions that improve business process automation and improve overall user experiences and time to resolution for the user community. You will be responsible for the overall health and availability of all Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) systems You will support and contribute to Databricks Business Stakeholders in Project Management best practices, guidelines and implementations. You will collaborate with and contribute to technical integrations between Atlassian systems and external cloud and IT systems. Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of experience or related experience in administering, maintaining and managing Atlassian product suite, 5+ level experience with Jira administration, governance and best practices for Project Management. Has experience integrating Jira with external Enterprise systems such as HR, Incident Management, Messaging and Monitoring systems. Strong hands-on technical skills. Can drill deep into Jira workflows, and be able to design schema configurations and templates to optimize Databricks business processes when needed. Familiarity with APIs and designing solutions to leverage interfaces to build automation or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring. Ability to implement scripting based automation solutions and collaborate with other software engineers to provide comprehensive business solutions based on Jira. Comfortable programming in languages such as Spark, SQL, Python, node.js, golang or Scala is ideal. Bachelor's Degree in CIS/MIS, engineering or equivalent and relevant experience Required Skills Atlassian Product Suite Jira Administration Work Authorization Green Card US Citizen
