Jira Migration Consultant

Job Description

Responsibilities

•             Actively participate in the planning, execution, and management of the JIRA and Confluence migration from Data Center to Atlassian Cloud.

•             Contribute to the development and implementation of comprehensive migration strategies and plans.

•             Execute data transfer, system configuration, and user setup within the Atlassian Cloud environment.

•             Address and resolve post migration tasks, including adjustments to screens, schemas, and workflows.

•             Utilize Atlassian migration tools (e.g., JIRA Cloud Migration Assistant, Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant) to facilitate efficient data transfer and system configuration.

•             Identify and proactively mitigate potential migration challenges, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.

•             Apply a strong understanding of JIRA architecture, migration methodologies, and cloud technologies throughout the migration process.

•             Collaborate effectively with various teams to ensure alignment and successful migration outcomes.

•             Contribute to the documentation of migration processes and best practices.

Mandatory Skills

•             7+ Years of demonstrable experience migrating JIRA from Data Center to Cloud environments.

•             Solid understanding of JIRA configuration and development principles, with experience in managing global and local configurations within migration projects.

•             Proficiency in utilizing Atlassian migration tools (e.g., JIRA Cloud Migration Assistant) for data transfer and system configuration.

•             Comprehensive understanding of JIRA architecture, various migration strategies, and cloud technologies.

•             Experience with pre migration activities such as instance planning, sanity checks, documentation, and user validation.

•             Experience with post migration activities including application link checks, DC integration checks, and log audits.

Preferred Skills

•             Basic SQL query knowledge.

•             Experience with Groovy scripting, Script Runner, or Python.

•             Knowledge of JIRA Cloud and Data Center features, including challenges and solutions.

•             Experience with integration of plugins and advanced mappings.

Qualifications

•             Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.

•             7+ Years of practical experience in JIRA development or migration.

More detailed description below:

•             It's not an administrator or developer role. It's a Jira migration role. 

•             Need experience in Jira Migration from Jira Data Center to Jira Cloud / not from Jira Server to Jira Cloud or Jira Server to AWS cloud or Jira Data Center to AWS cloud or Jira instance to instance migration

•             Jira pre migration activities experience - Instance planning, Sanity check, Documentation, User validation, mapping, etc.

•             Jira post migration activities experience - application links checks, DC integration checks, unit testing, sanity checks, random mapping checks. log audits etc.

•             JCMA experience - He should be well versed with the tool / know what tabs are there / how to do deployments and end point mappings and other features leveraging the tools

•             Integration experience - with plugins, advanced mappings, behaviors, synchronization, etc.

•             Basic SQL query knowledge

•             Groovy scripting / script runner or python

•             Know how to work as Jira cloud admin / knowledge on Jira cloud features / knowledge on Jira Data Center features / challenges with top of the shelf features and how to overcome / which features work well in what