Senior Atlassian Tooling Coach

Job Description

Were looking for aSenior Atlassian Tooling Coach to will join our team and help us lead and shape our Atlassian Cloud migration and long term platform evolution.

This is a hands-on high-impact role focused on coaching standardization and Cloud-native ways of workingnot just tool administration. Youll work across teams and business lines to ensure Atlassian Cloud becomes a true enabler of visibility work flow and value delivery.

What youll do:

• Lead and coach teams through the Data Center to Atlassian Cloud migration and ongoing platform evolution

• Partner with Agile Practitioners and stakeholders across different business lines to review define and evolve ways of working and configuration standards

• Coach individuals product teams and business users on Jira Confluence and related Atlassian Cloud tools

• Deliver hands-on training workshops and coaching sessions

• Define and promote organization-wide standards best practices and reusable configurations

• Create and maintain clear how-to guides usage guidelines and training materials

• Drive post-migration optimization through simplification alignment and continuous improvement

• Facilitate workshops to balance team needs with enterprise standards

• Provide advanced support in complex cases together with support teams

• Influence and guide teams and stakeholders without formal authority helping them adopt product-oriented ways of working

What were looking for:

• Senior hands-on experience coaching teams in Agile environments (Scrum Kanban SAFe or similar)

• Strong experience as a Jira and Confluence Power user or Administrator (Atlassian Cloud experience preferred)

• Proven ability to design and evolve Atlassian Cloud setups at scale

• Experience with complex delivery setups (multiple teams products regions)

• Experience with apps such as Xray ScriptRunner and other mainstream Atlassian Marketplace apps

• Excellent communication facilitation and presentation skills

• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders in structured environments

• Coaching mindset patience and a strong continuous improvement drive

• Willingness to learn new things

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