Jira Migration SME - Contract to Hire

Contract to Hire role.

Client is able to consider remote candidates based on skills/experience

Client's goal is to hire Full Time after a period of Consulting
Per client requirements - must be US Citizen or Green Card Holder status
Must be our W2 while consulting

Client office location is in Albany, NY

Overview:

The initial assignment is to migrate requirements currently represented as customized work items in IBM RTC/EWM into Atlassian Jira. Existing Client’s ELM specialists will supply source-system expertise; the selected SME will own Jira target design, migration engineering, execution, and validation. Experience migrating from any comparable enterprise ALM, requirements, issue-tracking, or work-management platform into Jira is acceptable. Prior RTC/EWM experience is not required. Additional migrations may follow.

Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery and migration planning with ELM SMEs, delivery teams, and Jira stakeholders; define scope, dependencies, risks, cutover, and rollback approach.
• Design Jira target projects, issue types, fields, workflows, permissions, and relationships to support requirements and traceability needs.
• Map and transform source records, custom attributes, status histories, links, comments, attachments, and other agreed-upon metadata into Jira, documenting platform limitations.
• Select and configure migration utilities; build and execute REST API integrations, scripts, and repeatable extraction, transformation, and loading processes.
• Perform proof-of-concept and pilot migrations, reconcile record counts and field-level results, resolve defects, and support user acceptance testing.
• Execute production migration and post-cutover stabilization while minimizing disruption to program delivery.
• Produce mapping specifications, migration runbooks, validation evidence, operational documentation, and knowledge transfer.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years of related experience
• Demonstrated hands-on ownership of at least one completed migration from a comparable enterprise platform into Jira; must be able to explain personally executed technical work.
• Strong Jira administration and configuration skills, including custom fields, issue types, workflows, schemes, permissions, and relationships.
• Experience migrating requirements or comparable structured work items, including field mapping, hierarchy/links, attachments, and historical data considerations.
• Experience with Jira REST APIs, migration utilities, scripting or automation (such as Python, Groovy, or Java), and data transformation.
• Experience designing and executing pilot migrations, reconciliation, validation, production cutover, and issue remediation.
• Ability to partner with source-system SMEs and translate business and technical requirements into target Jira design.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Migration experience from IBM ELM/RTC/EWM, Azure DevOps, Rally, HP ALM, or other enterprise ALM or work-management platforms.
• Experience migrating requirements with traceability, parent-child relationships, cross-references, and custom workflows.
• Jira Cloud and/or Jira Data Center migration experience; experience with Jira ecosystem apps as appropriate.
• Experience with large-scale or multi-project migrations and regulated government or healthcare environments.
• Atlassian certifications or comparable proven expertise.

   

  EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

• Source-to-target inventory and mapping specifications; Jira target configuration design.
• Migration scripts/utilities and documented repeatable migration procedures.
• Pilot migration findings, reconciliation and validation reports, production cutover plan, and stabilization documentation