The Role
Lead the end-to-end upgrade of JasperReports Server from version 6.x to the latest supported release. Own architecture assessment, migration planning, compatibility remediation, security hardening, authentication integration, testing, cutover, and post-upgrade stabilization. Coordinate application, infrastructure, security, identity, database, and business teams while providing technical leadership, architecture decisions, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
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Key Responsibilities
1. JasperReports Architecture & Upgrade
- Lead the end-to-end upgrade of Jaspersoft/JasperReports Server from 6.x to the latest supported version.
- Assess the existing JasperReports Server architecture, deployment model, configurations, customizations, and dependencies.
- Define the upgrade and migration strategy, including sequencing, dependencies, rollback approach, and validation.
- Identify and resolve version compatibility issues across JasperReports, Java, Tomcat, databases, authentication mechanisms, and integrations.
- Review existing Jasper reports, data sources, repositories, extensions, custom components, and integrations for upgrade impact.
- Provide technical guidance on upgrade-related architecture and design decisions.
2. Security Architecture & Hardening
- Assess the current Jasper security architecture and configuration and identify security gaps.
- Define and implement a security hardening strategy as part of the upgrade.
- Review authentication, authorization, session management, access controls, and security configurations.
- Conduct security reviews and coordinate remediation of identified vulnerabilities and security findings.
- Ensure appropriate security controls are incorporated into the upgraded environment.
- Support security validation and risk remediation before production rollout.
3. Authentication & Enterprise Integration
- Lead the upgrade and validation of enterprise authentication integrations, including:
- SSO
- SAML
- OAuth
- LDAP / Active Directory
- Assess compatibility of existing authentication configurations with the target JasperReports version.
- Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, identity mapping, and access-control issues.
- Validate integration with enterprise databases and application ecosystems.
- Ensure existing integrations continue to function correctly following the upgrade.
4. Java, Tomcat & Linux Platform
- Assess compatibility between JasperReports Server and the underlying Java runtime, Apache Tomcat, Linux OS, and database platforms.
- Lead technical remediation for application-server and runtime compatibility issues.
- Review Tomcat configuration, deployment settings, JVM configuration, security settings, and application dependencies.
- Troubleshoot application startup, deployment, connectivity, performance, and runtime issues during the upgrade.
- Provide technical recommendations for the target platform architecture.
5. Migration, Testing & Stabilization
- Define the migration approach for application configurations, repositories, reports, users, roles, permissions, data sources, and integrations.
- Establish technical validation criteria for the upgraded environment.
- Support functional, integration, security, and regression testing.
- Lead defect analysis and resolution for upgrade-related issues.
- Drive post-upgrade stabilization, including production monitoring, issue resolution, and remediation.
- Provide technical guidance during cutover and production transition.
6. Architecture & Stakeholder Leadership
- Act as the technical architecture owner for the Jasper upgrade initiative.
- Make architecture and technology decisions based on compatibility, security, maintainability, and business requirements.
- Produce and review architecture/design documentation, upgrade plans, technical assessments, and security recommendations.
- Work closely with application, infrastructure, security, identity, database, and business teams.
- Engage with business and technical stakeholders to communicate risks, dependencies, decisions, and progress.
- Provide technical leadership to engineering teams without necessarily having direct line-management responsibility.
Required Skills & Experience
- 12+ years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in enterprise application architecture, administration, or modernization.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Jaspersoft / JasperReports Server architecture and administration.
- Proven experience performing JasperReports Server version upgrades, preferably including upgrades from 6.x to newer/latest versions.
- Strong understanding of JasperReports Server architecture, configuration, repositories, reports, data sources, users, roles, permissions, and integrations.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting version compatibility and migration issues.
- Strong experience with:
- Java
- Apache Tomcat
- Linux
- Relational databases
- Strong experience with enterprise authentication and identity technologies:
- SSO
- SAML
- OAuth
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, access control, application security, and security hardening.
- Experience conducting application security reviews and supporting vulnerability remediation.
- Ability to assess existing architecture and define upgrade, migration, security, and stabilization strategies.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
- Experience producing architecture/design and technical review documentation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to make architecture decisions and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of overall IT experience
- Significant experience in enterprise application architecture, administration, or modernization
- Strong hands-on expertise in Jaspersoft or JasperReports Server architecture and administration
- Experience performing JasperReports Server version upgrades, preferably from 6.x to newer versions
- Strong understanding of JasperReports Server architecture, configurations, repositories, reports, data sources, users, roles, permissions, and integrations
- Experience troubleshooting version compatibility and migration issues
- Strong experience with Java, Apache Tomcat, Linux, and relational databases
- Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth, LDAP, and Active Directory
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, access control, application security, and security hardening
- Experience conducting application security reviews and supporting vulnerability remediation
- Ability to define upgrade, migration, security, and stabilization strategies
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities
- Experience producing architecture, design, and technical review documentation
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to make architecture decisions and provide technical leadership across multiple teams
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What We Do
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