Job Description

Role Introduction:

This governance role will consistently manage our tooling, delivery discipline, and integration practices. A single owner will ensure consistent Jira usage across our teams, provide a central point to manage Jira configuration and ensure teams produce reliable release data. As a forward-looking extension, this role will also enable AI-driven insights and automation by improving the quality and structure of engineering data and evaluate opportunities for AI adoption.
What You Will Do:

1. Jira Governance & Operational Ownership

Objective

: Ensure Jira reflects the real state of engineering work and can support scalable operations.

Scope Includes

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Own global Jira configuration across projects, workflows, schemes, and custom fields. Monitor Jira hygiene and follow up directly with teams to correct data issues (e.g., missing Fix Versions, stale tickets). Align usage of key fields across teams to support standardized automation and reporting (Fix Version, Component, Status, etc.). Support onboarding and coach EMs/PMs on how to use Jira effectively and consistently.

2. Release Practice Coordination

Objective

: Make releases visible, auditable, and consistently tracked across all teams without centralizing control.

Scope Includes

:Define and promote the shared release process: tagging conventions, Fix Version hygiene, version lifecycle. Ensure that each shippable work item is linked to a valid release (post-merge tagging where appropriate). Monitor adherence and follow up with teams who fall behind on tagging, versioning, or release finalization. Enable visibility into Change Failure Rate (CFR) by correlating incidents or defects with releases.

3. Developer Experience & Toolchain Integration

Objective

: Streamline the engineering experience across Jira, GitHub, Harness, and Aha! by removing manual steps and broken links.

Scope Includes

:Own and maintain integrations between planning (Aha!), delivery (Jira), code (GitHub), and deployment (Harness). Implement or improve automation: e.g., auto-tagging of Jira tickets from merged PRs, release notes from commit metadata. Partner with Platform Engineering to identify and resolve friction in dev-to-release workflows. Act as the systems contact for DevEx issues related to planning, versioning, or tool coordination. Not for end-user support, but for system-level flow ownership. Act as a partner for ProdOps on AHA Integration and data synchronization.

4. AI-Enablement for Delivery Insights & Automation

Objective

: Prepare and structure our delivery data to support AI-driven reporting, summarization, and future automation.

Scope Includes:

Ensure Jira and GitHub data quality supports LLM-based tools (e.g., summarizing releases, identifying delivery risk). Pilot basic AI capabilities such as GPT-based release changelogs, defect clustering, or delivery health summaries. Work with internal AI or analytics teams to make engineering delivery data accessible and contextualized for downstream tools. Explore opportunities for automation of low-value work (e.g., auto-filling ticket summaries, detecting duplicate tickets, estimating story complexity).


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What You Will Have:

Jira Governance & Operational Ownership

Manage global Jira configuration Monitor Jira hygiene and correct data issues Standardize key field usage across teams Onboard and coach EMs/PMs on Jira usage

Release Practice Coordination

Define and promote shared release process Ensure shippable work items are linked to valid releases Monitor adherence to release process and follow up with teams Enable visibility into Change Failure Rate (CFR)

Developer Experience & Toolchain Integration

Maintain integrations between tools (Aha!, Jira, GitHub, Harness) Implement automation (e.g., auto-tagging, release notes) Resolve dev-to-release workflow friction with Platform Engineering Act as systems contact for DevEx issues Partner with ProdOps on AHA integration and data synchronization

AI-Enablement for Delivery Insights & Automation

Ensure data quality for LLM-based tools Pilot AI capabilities (e.g., release changelogs, defect clustering) Make engineering delivery data accessible for downstream tools Explore automation opportunities for low-value work
What We Do For You:

Wellbeing focused

- Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral.

Annual Leave

- 20 days of annual leave, plus public holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

- Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7.

Personal Growth

- We're committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally through development programmes.

Life Insurance

- 2x annual salary

Personal Accident Insurance

- providing cover in the event of serious injury/illness.

Performance Bonus

- Our Group-wide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success.

Who We Are:

OneAdvanced is one UK's largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of 330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to

power the world of work

and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UK's most critical sectors.

We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.

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