DevSecOps, Jira and Confluence Engineer VP

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Atlassian (Jira/Jira Service Management/Confluence) Engineer for the DecSecOps Collaboration and Enablement team. The role is both strategic and technical, focusing on supporting and transforming collaboration tools and processes.

In this role you will apply your expertise to govern and provide support solutions for all aspects of our Atlassian product suite, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily. Whether balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders or supporting more senior staff on complex projects, you use data and analysis and apply your experience, judgment, and risk mindset across your responsibilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Administer, develop and support our Atlassian Data Center (JIRA, Confluence) instances.
• Gather requirements for business processes and determine ways to optimize/improve JIRA setup and workflows, as well as identify where functionality can/cannot meet user requests.
• Define and manage the product roadmap, backlog, vendor relationships, feature adoption and implementation strategy for Atlassian tools.
• Own and manage internal support team requirements (Identity and Access Management, Third-Party Management, Enterprise Security).
• Create and maintain our golden/standard project schemes, Jira based reports, dashboards, and planning views based on different user requirements and provide stakeholders with actionable metrics and status reports.
• Create and maintain build integrations with other systems (e.g, GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow).
• Evaluate current systems architecture and recommend scalable, cost-effective improvements.
• Capture and evangelize tips / best practices for MUFG to make the most effective use of Atlassian tools.
• Create, maintain and provide training to users.
• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
• Write and maintain custom scripts using Adaptavist ScriptRunner and Groovy to automate processes within Jira.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of proven expertise in administering Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) and engineering lifecycle management tools. Not to be confused with Project-level administration.
• Atlassian Certified Professional (ACP) certifications, including “Jira Administration for Data Center,” “Jira Administrator for Cloud,” or “Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin,” are preferred qualifications.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize initiatives, foster collaboration between departments and drive initiatives to completion through accountability.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a track record of identifying opportunities for improvement in existing processes and business practices.
• Experience migrating from Jira Data Center to Jira Cloud
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Possesses excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience turning data into actionable insights.
• 5+ years of experience in a highly regulated environment (e.g., financial, government, healthcare, etc.)
• Experience implementing and maintaining RESTful APIs and experience with API integrations to/from Atlassian products.
• Familiar with DevOps toolchain, i.e. Jenkins Pipeline, Artifactory or Nexus, and experienced in automate and deploy n-tier application stack in cloud native environments.
• Familiar with reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Able to comfortably handle more simultaneous customer requests than most.
• Demonstrate good understanding of modern, cloud-native application models and patterns.
• Interest in adapting new technologies to continuously improve processes & tools.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a passion for problem solving, with the ability to work alternative coverage schedules.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills required due to the dynamic nature of collaboration with leadership, customers, and other engineering teams.
• Experience in creating end-to-end data pipelines as well as CI/CD pipelines for applications delivery.
• Able to research and learn new methodologies and technologies and bring knowledge to the team.
•  Ready, willing, and able to pick up new technologies and pitch in on story tasks (design, code, test, CI/CD, deploy, etc.)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

The typical base pay range for this role is between $143K - $182K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Mufg Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.