Lead Jira Engineer

Job Description:

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and other premier publications to empower ambitious individuals transforming our world. We are also transforming ourselves—modernizing our media business by investing in cutting-edge advertising solutions and enterprise technologies that combine intelligent automation with next-generation user experiences.

About the Team:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Jira Engineer with deep expertise in the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira, Confluence) and a passion for enterprise application quality. In this role, you will serve as a full stack engineer designing, engineering, and administering our Atlassian infrastructure, designing and implementing robust workflows, integrations, and automation strategies that support enterprise-level reporting, billing, planning, and analytics. You will report to the Sr. Engineering Manager.

Work Schedule and On-Call Requirements:

This role requires alignment with U.S. business hours - Eastern Time. As a contingency plan, we can target a schedule of 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM local Barcelona time with on-call as required. Candidates should be prepared to adjust schedules to accommodate U.S. time zones as closely as feasible. Additionally, the position includes on-call responsibilities, requiring availability to address critical issues outside standard hours to ensure seamless operational support.

You Will:

• Be a lead developer and administrator for Atlassian
• Design and implement in Atlassian - workflows, permissions, dashboards, automations, data elements from several Enterprise sources like from SalesForce; SAP S/4 Hana and native billing application(s).
• Develop scripts using Groovy, ScriptRunner, or REST APIs to automate tasks and integrate Jira with external systems.
• Implement data validation, cleansing, and transformation processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and compliance of enterprise application lifecycle management and reporting.
• Enable connectivities between Atlassian and SAP products and other Enterprise applications for secure data transfer and to maintain data integrity
• Lead the different application development and testing lifecycles (Unit testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing), troubleshooting, and performance optimization of these Enterprise applications and the Corporate Application portfolio.
• Thoroughly document project artifacts including but not limited to requirements, design, build, functional, technical and cutover specifications
• Develop application architecture models and programming standards in compliance with the Enterprise Application Architecture Standards and Industry Best Practices
• Partner with Dow Jones business departments to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the Atlassian technical roadmap
• Identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritize it; Experience being on call for bugs or other issues that may arise during a sprint successful.
• Dissect our requirements to translate them into technical requirements as well as identify the places or technologies critical to making the projects efficient and successful.
• Work across teams and products to share best practices and influence technical decisions
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced systems engineers and provide technical guidance.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience, being responsible for the architecture, scalability, and governance of the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira and Confluence), ensuring it meets our needs across teams and departments.
• Experienced in helping define and maintain the architecture and governance of the Atlassian suite. Direct the offshore managed services team and assign tasks.
• Experienced in leading cross-functional initiatives and technical planning for Atlassian-related projects.
• Experienced in enterprise-wide migrations, upgrades, and tool consolidations.
• Experienced with Jira and Confluence plugins and Atlassian Marketplace applications
• Experience in Linux operating systems (or similar) and RDMS (PostgreSQL)
• Experience developing in Python required and experience in one of the modern languages as noted above.
• Experience using REST APIs for integrations and automation and Configuring webhooks and basic scripting in Python or PowerShell
• Understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe
• Experience in reporting tools like EazyBI, Atlassian Analytics.
• Proficient in data analysis and extraction and transformation using flat files, APIs, or middleware.
• Experience in AWS technologies and containerization is required

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
• Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
• Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program)
• One week of remote work per quarter
• Meal benefit with Pluxee (171€/month on top of your salary)
• Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Well-being Resources (200 USD allowance per quarter, Classpass, etc.)
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

#LI-hybrid

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role