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Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following a $200M Series B at a $1.4B valuation, the company is expanding teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.
As Jira Architect, you will own Jira end-to-end across Harmattan AI's Product and R&D organizations. You will design a single master Jira structure, standardize how teams plan and track work, and establish Jira as the reliable source of truth for engineering coordination. You will leverage AI to remove manual administration and reporting, enabling coordination to scale with the company.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design a master Jira architecture across all projects: hierarchy, issue types, workflows, fields, and permissions
- Audit existing projects and interview Product and R&D leads to understand how teams actually work
- Standardize workflows while preserving team autonomy, and migrate teams to the common structure
- Build standard templates enabling new teams or projects to onboard in hours
- Deliver portfolio views and dashboards providing leadership with cross-team visibility
- Automate triage, summaries, and reporting using Jira automation, scripting, and AI
- Run governance: establish admin rules and clean up unused projects, fields, and schemes
- Connect Jira with the wider stack, including Confluence and ERP/PLM tools where relevant
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years of hands-on experience as a Jira admin or Atlassian consultant
- Led at least one large Jira restructuring or migration covering dozens of projects
- Deep knowledge of Jira Cloud: workflows, schemes, permissions, automation, JQL, and Plans
- Solid understanding of how R&D and product engineering teams work in both hardware and software development
- Regular use of AI tools and scripting (Python, REST API a plus) to automate admin and reporting
- Consulting mindset: structured and pragmatic, able to drive change and secure adoption of standards diplomatically but firmly
- Fluency in English required; French is a plus
