Atlassian Solutions Architect (100% Remote)

Our customer is a large United States insurance company that is backed by more than 100 years of experience and provides insurance products and services for businesses and professionals in the United States., Canada and Europe. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, they have more than 20 US locations.

We are seeking a contract Atlassian Solutions Architect to support our Customer's business needs. This role is 100% remote.

This individual contributor is responsible for helping grow and transform the company's Agile Tooling landscape. This position acts as a solution architect providing overall technical vision, road mapping of future capabilities, and overall experience of the agile tooling ecosystem. Individual supports the entire Atlassian suite and its integrations and provides best practices, enhancements, and supports the entire enterprise of users.

This position empowers teams to adopt Agile ways of thinking and working via Agile tools. The Atlassian Solutions Architect/Agile tooling Coach uses experience and influence to effect change and create a collaborative culture. This position partners with Agile teams at a tactical level to enhance proficiency in executing Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe processes. This position serves as a process champion for agile tooling needs across the enterprise by improving ways of working.

Responsibilities:

• May perform additional duties as assigned
• Identify and curate solution roadmaps for agile tools to best support the enterprise
• Install, configure, maintain, administer, and enhance Jira Core, Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Align, integrations with Jira, and key 3rd-party add-ons
• Guide and maintain the organization of data in Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence
• Build enterprise, portfolio, ART, and team-level metrics leveraging Atlassian Analytics
• Work with enterprise team members to enable custom workflows, fields, screens, dashboards, and reports that fit into the agile mindset and enterprise reporting values
• Create and manage complex components including project workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes
• Advise on best practices configuration and recommendations to avoid common pitfalls and challenges
• Experience installing and configuring add-ons for Atlassian Products to provide enhanced capabilities
• Provide user-based training to groups and users on Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence usage, administration, and operational user and maintenance of the system
• Help with other assignments as necessary

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience with the configuration and administration of Atlassian Products such as Jira Core, Jira Software, Confluence, and key 3rd-party add-ons
• Certification as SM (Scrum Master), RTE (Release Train Engineer), and SPC (SAFe Program Consultant) is preferred
• Conceptual and practical understanding of SDLC, SAFe, and Agile Frameworks
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple customers and deliverables at any given time through effective time management and planning.
• Individuals should have an intrinsic curiosity to help expand the agile ways of working
• Strong work ethic and the ability to work with diverse teams across different time zones

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.