Jira Align Specialist - Onsite 5 Days / Week in Foster City, CA

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Jira Align Specialist - Manager, Consulting

Technology Modernization Consulting

Foster City, CA - 5 days/week onsite

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

THE ROLE

Cognizant Technology Modernization is changing the game in Data, Cloud and Generative AI based consultancy services. Tech Modernization is almost like a boutique consultancy inside of Cognizant that creates change in how technology is used and fosters an innovative engineering culture.

We strategically drive modern engineering practices and ways of working, along with helping clients in all aspects of enterprise technology solution modernization including AI, Cloud, DevOps, Data and more.

We're looking for a Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As the Senior Manager, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be onsite at the client location in Foster City, CA 5 days/week
• Provide thought leadership and strategic guidance on solving complex business challenges, creating custom solutions, and reducing administrative overhead by leveraging Jira features, such as issue types, attributes, custom fields, issue links, workflows, and automation capabilities.
• Develop comprehensive Jira implementation documentation for handover to implementation teams.
• Test and conduct demonstrations of new Jira functionalities in the development environment, collaborating with implementation teams to refine and prepare for production migration.
• Design and map out data backfill/migration workflows for new functionality being rolled out to production. This includes guiding how new mandatory fields are populated on existing tickets and assessing reporting impacts for various migration options.
• Work in close partnership with the central Jira admin team to ensure recommendations align with cross-organizational standards and expectations.
• Enhance change control management processes.
• Develop scope definition documentation.
• Design Polarion integration workflows for milestone tracking.
• Establish a comprehensive risk register.
• Improve delivery reporting capabilities with enhanced tracking of phases/features per release milestone (e.g., detailed burndown charts).
• Lead Jira ticket migration efforts to support the transition to the new structure.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong Plug-in and JQL experience
• Must have proficiency over Groovy scripts
• Agile coaching experience and must have worked in large Agile and JIRA implementations
• Develop new capabilities based on input and guidance from the PMO Process & Tools Lead.
• Execute data migration and bulk updates as needed.
• Collaborate closely with the Jira admin team to support tasks requiring specific, access-restricted functions.
• Proven expertise in Jira/JIRA administration, customization, and optimization.
• Strong experience in designing and implementing workflows, automation rules, and data migrations within JIRA and JIRA Align .
• Ability to provide strategic and innovative solutions aligned with organizational goals.
• Effective communication and documentation skills to support cross-team collaboration and project hand

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $98,853 - 158,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits:

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law