Jira/Confluence Developer

Job Title: Jira/Confluence Developer

Location: Warton-We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £47,683+ Depending of skills and experience

What You’Ll Be Doing:

• Design and develop workflows, including automation of manual processes
• Manage the full Atlassian toolset (workflows, custom fields, schemes, add-ons, and integrations) for the IM&T Atlassian team
• Act as Jira subject matter expert in governance discussions and best practice implementation
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports for stakeholders
• Create and update technical and user-facing documentation, including training materials
• Provide data analysis, process improvement recommendations, and creative problem-solving in an agile environment
• Balance user requests with business priorities while ensuring compliance with IM&T governance standards

Your Skills And Experiences:

• Proven expertise in the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, and related applications)
• STEM background (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) providing good evaluative and problem-solving skills
• Stakeholder management experience, with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams
• Extensive remove entirely experience using the Atlassian suite to deliver workflows, automation, reporting, and integrations
• Business analysis (BA) skills, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution design

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Atlassian Team:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Atlassian Configuration team, where you’ll play a key role in shaping and optimising how we work. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally across the organisation—partnering with teams in Finance, Export Control, and beyond—giving you exceptional visibility and exposure across the business.

You’ll be joining a high-performing team of Architects, Project Managers, and Analysts who are passionate about driving best practice and continuous improvement. A key part of your role will be your ability to create clear documentation and engaging training materials, ensuring smooth adoption of changes and supporting effective change management.

Working closely with the Atlassian System Design Authority (SDA), you’ll have the opportunity to recommend best practices, implement innovative solutions, and deliver improvements that increase efficiency across the entire business lifecycle.

Why Bae Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 15th October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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