Project Manager - Atlassian Migration Expert
4 days ago
Sheffield
Role purpose: \n \n Lead complex migration programmes with a strong focus on Atlassian migrations (Jira/Confluence and related ecosystem), while also bringing broader enterprise migration experience (e.g., cloud, data/platform, application, tooling). You’ll plan and deliver end-to-end migrations, ensuring robust ETL understanding where data movement/transformation is required and ensuring full end-to-end traceability from requirements through delivery, cutover, and post-migration assurance. \n \n Key responsibilities: \n \n Programme / project delivery \n\n • Own the migration delivery plan end-to-end: discovery, design, build, test, cutover, hypercare, and transition to BAU.\n, • Drive scope, schedule, RAID, financials, governance, and stakeholder management across multiple teams and vendors.\n, • Build and maintain integrated plans (workstreams, dependencies, critical path), ensuring delivery at pace without compromising control.\n, • Establish and run delivery ceremonies: steering committees, workstream reviews, cutover rehearsals, go/no-go forums, and lessons learned.\n\n \n Atlassian migration leadership \n\n • Lead Atlassian migrations across deployment models (e.g., Server/Data Center to Cloud, Cloud-to-Cloud consolidation, instance rationalisation).\n, • Manage migration requirements for:\n, • Projects/spaces, workflows, permissions, custom fields, apps/add-ons, schemas, and automation.\n, • Identity/access integration (SSO, SCIM where relevant), user provisioning, and governance.\n, • Ensure Atlassian-specific data quality, mapping, and configuration parity (or improved target-state design).\n, • Bring experience from other migration contexts (e.g., application modernisation, cloud adoption, platform/tooling consolidation, data migrations) and apply proven patterns and controls.\n\n \n ETL and data migration controls \n\n • Partner with data/engineering teams to plan and govern ETL activities (extract, transform, load), including:\n, • Data profiling, mapping, cleansing rules, transformation logic, and reconciliation.\n, • Migration tooling, runbooks, job scheduling, and rollback/restore strategies.\n, • Define and track migration success metrics: completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and performance.\n\n \n End-to-end traceability and assurance \n\n • Implement and maintain end-to-end traceability across the delivery lifecycle:\n, • Business requirements → epics/stories → build/config → test cases → defect resolution → release/cutover evidence.\n, • Establish audit-ready artefacts: decision logs, change approvals, test evidence, reconciliations, cutover outcomes, and post-migration sign-off.\n, • Ensure strong change control and configuration management, especially where multiple systems and data sets are migrating in parallel.\n\n \n Risk, compliance, and operational readiness \n\n • Identify and manage migration risks (data loss, downtime, security/access, integration breaks, performance degradation).\n, • Coordinate non-functional requirements: security, resilience, performance, DR, logging/monitoring, and support readiness.\n, • Plan operational handover: support model, knowledge transfer, training, runbooks, and hypercare exit criteria.\n\n \n Required experience & skills \n\n • Proven experience delivering complex migrations as a Project Manager, including Atlassian migration delivery (Jira/Confluence strongly preferred).\n, • Demonstrable experience leading non-Atlassian migrations (e.g., cloud/platform migrations, data migrations, tooling consolidation, application migration).\n, • Working understanding of ETL concepts, data mapping, reconciliation, and migration quality controls (not necessarily hands-on engineering, but able to govern effectively).\n, • Strong grasp of end-to-end traceability and delivery evidence from requirements to deployment and post-cutover assurance.\n, • Excellent stakeholder management across engineering, product owners, security, operations, and third-party vendors.\n, • Strong planning skills: dependency management, cutover planning, runbooks, and go/no-go governance.\n, • Comfortable working in Agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.\n\n