Atlassian Platform & Configuration Management Lead

DecisionPoint seeks an Atlassian Platform & Configuration Management Lead to serve as MODES  Task #3’s (Cloud, Cyber, Application Development)  subject matter expert for Jira and Confluence and lead the Task’s Change Control Board (CCB) process. This senior role will configure and administer Jira projects, workflows, boards, backlogs, dashboards, permissions, and automation while establishing effective Confluence spaces and knowledge-management structures.

The position will also manage the change-control lifecycle, ensuring proposed changes are properly documented, assessed, reviewed by the CCB, approved or rejected, implemented, and traceable through closure.

This position is fully remote. 

• Serve as Jira and Confluence subject matter expert and administrator.
• Design, build, configure, and maintain Jira projects supporting multiple products, projects, and teams.
• Configure Jira workflows, issue types, custom fields, screens, permissions, notifications, components, versions, and project roles.
• Create and maintain Scrum and Kanban boards, team backlogs, product backlogs, and project backlogs.
• Establish consistent structures for capabilities, epics, stories, tasks, subtasks, defects, risks, dependencies, releases, and change requests.
• Develop advanced JQL queries, filters, dashboards, reports, and Jira automation.
• Identify and correct duplicate, stale, improperly assigned, incorrectly categorized, or poorly structured backlog items.
• Establish Jira standards, templates, naming conventions, workflows, and governance across the program.
• Create and administer Confluence spaces, templates, page structures, permissions, navigation, and documentation standards.
• Integrate Jira and Confluence to provide traceability between work items, requirements, decisions, technical documentation, and change requests.
• Serve as the operational lead and secretariat for the Change Control Board (CCB).
• Manage change requests from submission and impact analysis through CCB review, approval, implementation, validation, and closure.
• Coordinate technical, schedule, cybersecurity, operational, testing, and dependency impact assessments for proposed changes.
• Prepare CCB agendas, change packages, decision materials, and supporting documentation.
• Facilitate CCB meetings and document approvals, rejections, deferrals, decisions, and action items.
• Ensure approved changes are traceable to Jira work items, documentation, releases, requirements, and applicable configuration baselines.
• Track CCB actions and approved changes through implementation and closure.
• Develop dashboards and metrics providing program leadership visibility into backlogs, changes, CCB actions, dependencies, releases, and work status.
• Train and support Product Owners, Scrum Masters, project managers, technical teams, and other users in effective Jira and Confluence practices.
• Continuously improve Jira, Confluence, backlog-management, and change-control processes.

• Active secret clearance or higher required.
• A bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, business, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• At least 5 years of hands-on Jira administration and configuration experience.
• Significant hands-on experience administering Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience independently building and configuring Jira projects, workflows, boards, and backlogs.
• Advanced knowledge of Jira workflows, issue types, custom fields, permissions, dashboards, filters, automation, and JQL.
• Experience creating and administering Confluence spaces, templates, permissions, and knowledge repositories.
• Experience managing large product, project, or technical backlogs.
• Experience supporting or facilitating a Change Control Board, Change Advisory Board, or comparable governance process.
• Experience managing change requests from submission through approval, implementation, and closure.
• Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, technical-documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to work directly with Government stakeholders, program leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or comparable Agile experience or certification.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense programs.
• Experience serving as a senior Jira/Confluence administrator or Atlassian platform lead.
• Atlassian Jira or Confluence administration certification.
• Experience supporting Government Change Control Boards and formal approval processes.
• Experience with Jira APIs, webhooks, marketplace applications, and advanced automation.
• Experience integrating Jira and Confluence with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or CI/CD platforms.
• Experience developing executive dashboards and automated Jira reporting.
• Experience training and mentoring Jira and Confluence users across multiple teams.

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.