Atlassian Architect & Confluence Migration Lead

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Role1 Atlassian Architect (Data Center to Cloud Migration)

Position:Atlassian Architect - Jira & Confluence Data Center to Cloud Migration

Role Summary

Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and execution of Atlassian Data Center to Cloud migrations. The Architect will define migration strategy, assess current-state environments, design target-state cloud architecture, oversee migration execution, and provide technical leadership to project teams, ensuring a secure, scalable, and successful transition to Atlassian Cloud.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Architecture

• Define migration roadmap and cloud adoption strategy.
• Assess current Jira, Confluence, Marketplace Apps, integrations, and infrastructure.
• Design future-state Atlassian Cloud architecture and governance model.
• Recommend best practices for scalability, security, compliance, and administration.

Migration Leadership

• Lead Jira and Confluence migration planning and execution.
• Drive application, project, issue, workflow, permission, and space migration strategies.
• Define migration waves, cutover plans, rollback strategies, and validation approaches.
• Oversee staging, testing, UAT, and production migrations.

Solution Design

• Design solutions for application rationalization and process optimization.
• Evaluate Marketplace App compatibility and migration approaches.
• Architect integrations with enterprise tools such as Azure AD, ServiceNow, CI/CD, and third-party applications.
• Provide recommendations for automation, reporting, and AI/Rovo adoption.

Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Act as primary technical advisor to client leadership and project teams.
• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and solution workshops.
• Collaborate with Atlassian, client SMEs, security teams, and delivery teams.
• Support executive reporting and steering committee discussions.

Technical Oversight

• Mentor engineers, administrators, and migration specialists.
• Review configurations, security controls, permissions, and performance requirements.
• Ensure adherence to Atlassian Cloud best practices and enterprise standards.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of Atlassian ecosystem experience.
• Extensive experience with Jira Software, Jira Service Management, and Confluence.
• Proven experience leading large-scale Data Center to Cloud migrations.
• Strong understanding of Atlassian Cloud Migration Assistant (JCMA/CCMA).
• Expertise in workflows, permissions, schemes, automation, and Marketplace Apps.
• Experience with SSO, Identity Management, and security frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and consulting skills.

Preferred Certifications

• Atlassian Certified Expert (ACE)
• Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin
• Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator
• Atlassian Certified Confluence Administrator
• Atlassian Cloud Migration Certification

Key Deliverables

1. Current State Assessment
2. Cloud Architecture Design
3. Migration Strategy & Roadmap
4. Application & Integration Assessment
5. Security & Governance Framework
6. Migration Runbooks and Cutover Plans
7. UAT & Validation Framework
8. Go-Live Support and Hypercare
9. Knowledge Transfer & Operational Handover

Experience

• 10-15+ years overall IT experience.
• 5+ years as Atlassian Solution/Enterprise Architect.
• Experience with enterprise-scale migrations involving thousands of users and multiple Jira/Confluence instances.

This version is suitable for inclusion in an RFP, SOW, resource profile, or project staffing plan for Jira and Confluence DC-to-Cloud migration programs.

Role-2 Confluence Migration Lead

Confluence Migration Lead: Responsible for leading the end-to-end Confluence Data Center-to-Cloud migration, including discovery and assessment, data scrubbing and remediation, migration planning, Cloud readiness, test and production migrations, technical validation, UAT support, issue resolution, cutover, hypercare, and BAU handover while coordinating with Atlassian and customer technology, security, IAM and application teams.

Job Description: Confluence Migration Lead

Role Purpose

The Confluence Migration Lead is responsible for leading the end-to-end technical migration of Confluence Data Center to Confluence Cloud, covering discovery, assessment, remediation, migration planning, test migrations, production cutover, validation, UAT support, hypercare, and transition to BAU.

The role provides technical leadership to the migration engineers while coordinating with customer administrators, security, identity, application owners, business SMEs, and Atlassian support/advisory teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Migration Discovery & Assessment

• Assess the existing Confluence Data Center environment, including spaces, users, groups, permissions, attachments, templates, macros, integrations and Marketplace apps.
• Identify migration blockers, obsolete content and configuration/data issues requiring remediation.
• Establish migration scope, dependencies and technical readiness.

2. Migration Strategy & Planning

• Define the technical approach for moving Confluence Data Center workloads to Confluence Cloud.
• Determine migration waves, sandbox/test migrations, UAT migration and production cutover approach.
• Develop migration runbooks, validation checkpoints, rollback/contingency considerations and cutover activities.
• Use Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant (CCMA) as the primary migration mechanism where applicable. Atlassian describes CCMA as its recommended migration method and supports migration of spaces, users, groups, attachments and Marketplace app data where supported. [support.at...assian.com], [support.at...assian.com]

3. Pre-Migration Remediation & Data Scrubbing

• Lead Confluence content/data cleanup and migration-readiness remediation.
• Coordinate resolution of data conflicts and migration blockers identified during assessments and pre-migration checks.
• For your current program, explicitly lead data scrubbing and remediation of C3/C4 detections prior to migration.

4. Cloud Readiness & Configuration

• Validate target Confluence Cloud configuration and readiness.
• Review user/group mappings, product access, space permissions and Cloud administration requirements.
• Coordinate identity/access readiness with IAM teams where required.

5. Marketplace Apps & Integrations

• Assess existing Confluence Marketplace applications for Cloud availability and migration compatibility.
• Coordinate migration, replacement or remediation approaches with application owners/vendors.
• Validate integrations and dependent services before production migration.

6. Test/Sandbox Migration

• Lead trial migrations into designated Cloud sandbox/test environments.
• Execute and monitor CCMA migration plans and pre-migration checks.
• Analyse migration errors, failed objects and data conflicts.
• Drive remediation and repeat migration testing until production readiness criteria are met.

7. Production Migration & Cutover

• Own the technical execution of the Confluence production migration.
• Coordinate migration activities across onshore/offshore teams and customer technology teams.
• Monitor migration progress, troubleshoot failures and escalate complex issues to Atlassian when necessary.
• Your current SOW specifically assigns the Confluence Lead responsibility for taking care of migration during onshore business hours. [BEN-Infy O...rms 3 V0.2 | Word]

8. Validation & UAT

• Lead post-migration technical validation covering spaces, pages, attachments, users/groups, permissions and applicable migrated configurations.
• Coordinate UAT support and defect resolution with business users and technical teams.
• Maintain migration defect/gap tracking through closure.

9. Security & Compliance Coordination

• Support security assessment and remediation activities associated with Confluence content and Cloud migration.
• Coordinate technical inputs required by customer security and Atlassian advisory/support teams.
• Ensure identified security-related migration blockers are addressed before production cutover.

10. Hypercare & Stabilisation

• Lead technical support during the post-migration hypercare period.
• Drive resolution of migration defects, permission/access issues, missing content concerns and Cloud configuration gaps.
• Track issues through resolution and support migration completion/sign-off.

11. Documentation & BAU Handover

• Maintain migration runbooks, configuration documentation, validation reports, known-issue documentation and migration evidence.
• Conduct knowledge transfer to Confluence administrators and BAU/support teams.
• Support transition from project migration activities into steady-state Cloud operations.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Confluence Data Center and Confluence Cloud.
• Proven experience leading Confluence Data Center-to-Cloud migrations.
• Strong knowledge of CCMA, including migration planning, pre-checks, execution, monitoring and troubleshooting. Atlassian's own migration guidance covers pre-migration conflict checking, migration plans, monitoring, troubleshooting and pre/post-migration reporting.
• Strong understanding of Confluence spaces, permissions, users/groups, attachments, templates, macros and administration.
• Experience assessing Marketplace apps and integrations for Cloud migration.
• Understanding of SSO/SAML/SCIM and identity/access dependencies.
• Strong migration troubleshooting and defect-management skills.
• Experience supporting sandbox/testing, UAT, production cutover and hypercare.
• Strong stakeholder coordination and technical leadership capability.
• Ability to work effectively with Atlassian Support/Advisory, customer technology teams, security teams, application owners and migration engineers.
• BAU handover and KT documentation

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