At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Define the strategic vision for Jira and related Atlassian tools, aligning platform capabilities with business objectives and long-term goals.

• Establish governance frameworks, standards, and policies to ensure consistent and effective use of Jira across all teams.

• Lead complex configurations and customizations, including scripting, automation, and integrations, to meet the needs of various teams and processes.

• Architect solutions to optimize Jira performance, scalability, and usability in a high-growth, complex environment.

• Oversee and manage integrations between Jira and other enterprise systems (e.g., Confluence, ServiceNow, CI/CD tools), ensuring data integrity and seamless workflows.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and evaluate new features, plugins, and technologies to enhance the Jira ecosystem.

• Act as the primary point of contact for Jira-related initiatives, gathering requirements, providing updates, and ensuring alignment with business needs.

• Deep understanding of Jira’s architecture, advanced administration, and system configurations.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation within Jira, using tools such as Groovy, Jira Automation, or similar.

• Expertise in building complex Jira workflows, issue types, and custom fields that support varied and dynamic business processes.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design solutions that address technical and operational challenges.

• Ability to translate business requirements into technical configurations and integrations.

• Experience with managing and optimizing Jira in a high-availability, multi-project environment.

• Advanced knowledge of integration patterns and frameworks for connecting Jira to third-party systems.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to engage with senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.

 Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 7-10 years of experience in Jira administration, with a focus on enterprise-level configuration and architecture.

• Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator or Atlassian Certified Expert.

• Proven experience in leading Jira implementation projects and designing custom solutions.

• Strong experience with Jira Data Center and Cloud environments, including complex migrations and upgrades.

• Expertise in scripting languages (e.g., Groovy, JavaScript, or Python) for advanced Jira customizations.

• Experience integrating Jira with external systems using REST APIs and middleware solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and optimize a large-scale, multi-project Jira environment.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here