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Role: Jira Consultant.

Need Senior Profiles

Location: Foster City, CA (Hybrid need to be in office 3 days a week)

Job Description:

1. One person who deeply understands Jira structure and data can advise us on how we should structure Jira so we have that program view.
   • This resource would partner with the PMO Process & Tools lead to provide and execute the following responsibilities:
     • Thought leadership and strategic recommendations on how best to solve problems, create solutions to meet specific use cases and reduce administrative overhead using Jira issue types, attributes, custom fields, issue links, workflows, and automation capabilities
     • Creating Jira implementation documentation that can be passed off to implementation teams
     • Testing & conducting demos of functionality in the Jira dev environment to confirm capabilities & work with implementation teams to refine before migrating to Jira Prod systems
     • Mapping out data backfill/migration requirements & workflow as new functionality is migrated to Prod (e.g. new mandatory fields that must be populated on existing tickets – guide how we could populate and impacts on reporting, etc for each option)
     • Working with the central Jira admin team to ensure recommendations are aligned with cross-org expectations
   • Use cases that we are currently solving for include:
     • Improved change control management
     • Scope definition documentation
     • Polarion Integration Workflow Design for Milestone Tracking
     • Risk register
     • Improved delivery reporting capabilities (e.g. burndown charts) with improvements in tracking per phase/feature for each release milestone