Senior JIRA Administrator​/Subject Matter Expert

This is not a remote position

Stafford, Virginia | Minimal Travel

Work arrangement: This position is fully on-site in Stafford, Virginia. Remote work is not available.

We are seeking a senior Jira Administrator and Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a Marine Corps acquisition Program Management Office (PMO) operating within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The selected candidate will serve as the PMO’s technical and functional authority for Jira within the Navy Fusion Suite environment.

Working with PMO leadership, Release Train Engineers, product and delivery teams, engineering and test organizations, cybersecurity personnel, platform administrators, and other Integrated Product Team stakeholders, the Jira SME will translate validated mission, governance, technical, acquisition, and reporting requirements into practical, scalable configurations. The role will use established Jira and SAFe practices as reference points while ensuring that the PMO’s approved operating model—not default tool conventions—drives significant configuration decisions.

The successful candidate will recommend configuration options and clearly explain trade-offs involving usability, data quality, reporting, security, sustainment, and long-term maintainability. Solutions must remain supportable, auditable, and consistent with Navy Fusion Suite constraints and the PMO’s delegated authority.

• Align Jira configuration with PMO mission, governance, acquisition, and reporting requirements.
• Improve program visibility, traceability, data quality, and decision support.
• Establish sustainable administration, governance, documentation, and change control.
• Enable SAFe-aligned planning and execution without imposing unnecessary process burden.
• Promote consistent adoption through responsive support, role-based training, and practical automation.

• Serve as the senior Jira administrator and functional SME for the PMO’s SAFe-aligned implementation within the Navy Fusion Suite.
• Administer authorized Jira projects and configurations, including workflows, issue types, fields, permissions, notifications, dashboards, reports, and automation.
• Elicit, document, and translate stakeholder needs into scalable configuration and implementation plans based on validated mission, technical, governance, compliance, and reporting requirements.
• Design work-item hierarchies and relationships that support approved planning, delivery, risk, dependency, milestone, and objective tracking.

• Enable Program Increment Planning, Agile Release Train execution, iteration planning, backlog refinement, dependency management, risk tracking, objectives management, and Inspect and Adapt activities.
• Configure Jira to reflect the PMO’s approved operating model, acquisition lifecycle, governance structure, decision processes, and Agile delivery practices.
• Participate in planning events, Agile ceremonies, Integrated Product Teams, working groups, and program reviews; provide clear recommendations on Jira capabilities, data, governance, and process improvement.

• Establish and maintain PMO-level standards for naming, project structure, role-based access, data quality, configuration baselines, documentation, and change control.
• Evaluate standard, tailored, and custom approaches; explain their operational, technical, security, reporting, adoption, and sustainment trade-offs to decision-makers.
• Maintain a controlled and documented change process that supports evolving mission priorities while preserving governance and maintainability.
• Exercise PMO-delegated administrative authority…