Jira Migration Subject Matter Expert
DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Jira Migration Subject Matter Expert for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY
*This role is hybrid: on-site twice a week and every other Friday
*Only U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders
Job Description
As a Jira Migration Subject Matter Expert, you will lead the design, engineering, execution, and validation of a requirements migration from an enterprise application lifecycle management, requirements, issue-tracking, or work-management platform into Atlassian Jira. You will own Jira target design and collaborate with source-system subject matter experts, delivery teams, and Jira stakeholders. Additional migrations may follow.
What you'll do:
- Lead discovery and migration planning with source-system subject matter experts, delivery teams, and Jira stakeholders.
- Define scope, dependencies, risks, cutover, and rollback approach.
- Design Jira target projects, issue types, fields, workflows, permissions, and relationships to support requirements and traceability needs.
- Map and transform source records, custom attributes, status histories, links, comments, attachments, and other agreed-upon metadata into Jira.
- Document platform limitations.
- Select and configure migration utilities.
- Build and execute REST API integrations, scripts, and repeatable extraction, transformation, and loading processes.
- Perform proof-of-concept and pilot migrations.
- Reconcile record counts and field-level results.
- Resolve defects and support user acceptance testing.
- Execute production migration and post-cutover stabilization while minimizing disruption to program delivery.
- Produce mapping specifications, migration runbooks, validation evidence, operational documentation, and knowledge transfer.
- Create source-to-target inventory and mapping specifications.
- Develop Jira target configuration design.
- Create migration scripts and utilities and document repeatable migration procedures.
- Produce pilot migration findings, reconciliation and validation reports, production cutover plan, and stabilization documentation.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on ownership of at least one completed migration from a comparable enterprise platform into Jira; you must be able to explain personally executed technical work.
- Strong Jira administration and configuration skills, including custom fields, issue types, workflows, schemes, permissions, and relationships.
- Experience migrating requirements or comparable structured work items, including field mapping, hierarchy/links, attachments, and historical data considerations.
- Experience with Jira REST APIs, migration utilities, scripting or automation such as Python, Groovy, or Java, and data transformation.
- Experience designing and executing pilot migrations, reconciliation, validation, production cutover, and issue remediation.
- Ability to partner with source-system subject matter experts and translate business and technical requirements into target Jira design.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Nice to have:
- Migration experience from IBM ELM/RTC/EWM, Azure DevOps, Rally, HP ALM, or other enterprise ALM or work-management platforms.
- Experience migrating requirements with traceability, parent-child relationships, cross-references, and custom workflows.
- Jira Cloud and/or Jira Data Center migration experience; experience with Jira ecosystem apps as appropriate.
- Experience with large-scale or multi-project migrations and regulated government or healthcare environments.
- Atlassian certifications or comparable proven expertise.
DataStaff offers W-2 employment opportunities with a competitive benefits package. Many of our positions include access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. Recognizing that many of our assignments are long-term, DataStaff also offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan, with employees becoming eligible after six months of employment.