Subject Matter Expert

Summary

Join AnaVation's growing team as a Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Atlassian tools, leading the configuration, customization, and support of Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo across the enterprise. This pivotal role involves tool governance, performance optimization, and seamless integration with DevOps ecosystems. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical knowledge, leadership experience, and a passion for improving enterprise collaboration. Experience in federal government environments following Agile processes using the SAFe framework is preferred. The position is primarily remote, with occasional travel to Clarksburg, WV, potentially required. AnaVation offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, preferred
• In lieu of degree, minimum of 11 years relevant experience required
• 7 years
• Seven years of hands-on experience with the Atlassian tool suite (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo) at the enterprise level, including configuration, administration, and troubleshooting
• 5 years' experience in managing, configuring, and customizing Atlassian products for large organizations, ensuring scalability, performance optimization, and adherence to enterprise best practices
• Demonstrated experience in integrating Atlassian tools with other enterprise systems (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, version control systems) and automating processes using tools such as Jira Automation, scripts, and REST APIs
• Demonstrated 2 years of experience in leading a team of administrators and providing tiered support for Atlassian tools, managing user permissions, security configurations, and ensuring the tools are aligned with organizational requirements and workflows
• This position requires an active Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Serves as subject matter expert, possessing in-depth knowledge of a particular area, such as business, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or the various sciences
• Provides technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environments, high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration,Documentation, and implementation advice on exceptionally complex problems that need extensive knowledge of the subject matter for effective implementation
• Participates as needed in all phases of software development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing, integration, documentation, and presentation phases
• Applies principles, methods, and knowledge of the functional area of capability to specific requirements, advanced mathematical principles and methods to exceptionally difficult and narrowly defined technical problems in engineering and other scientific applications to arrive at automated solutions
• Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, and SAFe

Benefits

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
• 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
• 100% company paid long-term and short term disability insurance
• 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
• 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
• Competitive Pay
• Generous paid leave and holiday package
• Tuition and training reimbursement
• Life and AD&D Insurance