Senior Atlassian Consultant

Senior Atlassian Consultant

Job Description

This role suits a highly experienced Atlassian subject matter expert who can lead the design, migration, and optimisation of Jira, Confluence, and related tooling across complex, regulated environments. You will guide the end-to-end life cycle of Atlassian tools, from acquisition and migration through to adoption, training, and ongoing operation, ensuring they effectively support portfolio management, DevOps practices, and agile delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of work stacks and portfolio data from platforms such as Azure DevOps (ADO) into Jira, ensuring data integrity, continuity, and minimal disruption to delivery teams.
• Design, configure, and optimise Jira and Confluence to support portfolio-level planning, tracking, and reporting across multiple teams and programmes.
• Oversee the full life cycle of Atlassian tooling, including acquisition, migration, landing, user onboarding, training, and ongoing operational management.
• Collaborate closely with agile teams, product owners, and technology stakeholders to ensure Atlassian tools effectively support agile ways of working and portfolio governance.
• Integrate Jira and Confluence within a broader DevOps and CI/CD toolchain, ensuring seamless workflows and traceability across the delivery pipeline.
• Identify and address challenges associated with tool consolidation, process standardisation, and scaling Atlassian solutions in a regulated environment.
• Develop and deliver training, guidance, and best practices to users and administrators to drive adoption and consistent use of Atlassian tools.
• Provide expert advice on Atlassian configuration, governance, and usage patterns to support continuous improvement of delivery processes.
• Troubleshoot complex tooling issues and work proactively to enhance performance, reliability, and usability of the Atlassian stack.

Essential Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience with Atlassian tools, particularly Jira and Confluence, in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in migrating work items and portfolio data from Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar platforms into Jira.
• Strong understanding of portfolio-level work management and how to model and manage portfolio work stacks within Jira.
• Demonstrable experience managing the end-to-end life cycle of Atlassian tooling, including acquisition, migration, implementation, training, and ongoing operations.
• Atlassian qualification or certification demonstrating advanced knowledge of the Atlassian ecosystem.
• experience working in regulated environments, such as large financial institutions or similarly governed organisations.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD toolchains, and how Atlassian tools integrate into these workflows.
• Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and how agile teams use Jira and Confluence to plan, track, and report work.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex tooling concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• experience configuring Jira for portfolio management, including multi-team and programme-level tracking.
• Background in supporting large-scale agile transformations using Atlassian tooling.
• Ability to design and deliver effective user training and documentation for Jira and Confluence.
• experience in standardising processes and workflows across multiple teams using Atlassian tools.
• Capability to act as a Senior subject matter expert and mentor for less experienced Atlassian practitioners

This will be an initial 6 month rolling contract operating fully remote and INSIDE IR35.

Edinburgh, UK

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