Jira Align Architect & Administrator

Career Opportunities with Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting

At HCL Technologies, in our Agile Delivery Transformation practice, we work as true partners with both our employees and our clients, embodying our number one value : People First . Our team is driven by a desire to always learn, improve, and innovate. We take an open-minded approach to opportunities and challenges and are focused on solving business challenges.

We deliver programs and projects that exceed stakeholder expectations. To be successful here, you will be a driver with a flexible working style and excellent communication skills; you will think strategically and act tactically; you will be the person on the team our client can't live without!

We are seeking an experienced Jira Align Administrator to work closely with the JIRA Align Product Manager for a large Life Health Sciences company who is currently implementing Jira Align. Candidate MUST have Align experience working as an admin of the tool (and not just as a user -this is KEY). Work will involve setting up and training new users, integrating Lighthouse Value Streams, facilitating Jira migrations and product boards, and ensuring overall governance of Jira Align usage. Person will bring a global mindset and have a high comfort level working with and being part of a distributed team and management set-up. A structured and organized approach based upon the client's current needs and long-term roadmap for agile tooling will be necessary. We are looking for "art of the possible" with the tool married to our client's current agile maturity.

Important Note : This is a US-based opportunity; relocation is not provided.

Responsibilities :

• Recommend and administer solution design for Jira Align tool with ability to configure all levels including Enterprise, Program, Solutions, and Teams.
• Design, configure, and Implement OKR value engineering framework within tool based upon client's requirements.
• Define product requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria and test cases that support the client's Jira Align instance.
• Facilitate gathering of business and technical requirements from cross-functional partners including Agile Coaching office, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Agile Release Trains, and Quarterly Business Review reporting needs.
• Review and approve user stories, use cases, and UX / UI wireframes that align with the client's product definition for Jira Align.
• Facilitate complex team meetings involving business and technical resources, including third-party vendors.
• Ability to lead a diverse group of resources – developers, technical architects, program and project managers, product owners, testing leads, and testers.
• Demonstrate credibility as a business partner to ensure business and technology decisions are reached to support business goals and objectives.
• Establish and drive long-term relationships across all required verticals.
• Support testing, launch, and on-going product management.

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