Jira Migration SME -Hybrid

Jira Migration SME

Program: New York State of Health (NYSoH)

Location: 22 Corporate Woods Blvd, Albany, NY - 2 days a week in office.

Salary Range: $130,000–$135,000 annually

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

GDIT is seeking a hands-on Jira Migration Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support the New York State of Health (NYSoH) program, serving more than 7 million New Yorkers through its Health Benefit Exchange.

The initial assignment will focus on migrating requirements currently represented as customized work items in IBM RTC/EWM into Atlassian Jira. Existing NYSoH ELM specialists will provide source-system expertise, while the Jira Migration SME will own Jira target design, migration engineering, execution, reconciliation, and validation.

Experience migrating from a comparable enterprise ALM, requirements, issue-tracking, or work-management platform into Jira is acceptable. Prior IBM RTC/EWM experience is not required. Additional migrations may follow.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Lead discovery and migration planning with ELM SMEs, delivery teams, and Jira stakeholders, defining scope, dependencies, risks, cutover strategy, and rollback approach.

Design Jira target projects, issue types, custom fields, workflows, permissions, schemes, and relationships to support requirements and traceability needs.

Map and transform source records, custom attributes, status histories, links, comments, attachments, and other agreed-upon metadata into Jira while documenting platform limitations.

Select and configure migration utilities.

Build and execute REST API integrations, scripts, and repeatable extraction, transformation, and loading processes.

Perform proof-of-concept and pilot migrations.

Reconcile record counts and field-level results, resolve migration defects, and support user acceptance testing.

Execute production migration and post-cutover stabilization while minimizing disruption to program delivery.

Produce mapping specifications, migration runbooks, validation evidence, operational documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Education

Bachelor’s degree.

Required Qualifications

8+ years of related professional experience.

Demonstrated hands-on ownership of at least one completed migration from a comparable enterprise platform into Jira.

Ability to clearly explain personally executed technical migration work, including source platform, target environment, approach, tooling, migration challenges, validation, and outcome.

Strong Jira administration and configuration skills, including:

Custom fields

Issue types

Workflows

Schemes

Permissions

Relationships

Experience migrating requirements or comparable structured work items, including:

Field mapping

Hierarchies and links

Attachments

Historical data considerations

Hands-on experience with Jira REST APIs, migration utilities, scripting, automation, and data transformation.

Scripting or development experience using technologies such as Python, Groovy, or Java.

Experience designing and executing:

Proof-of-concept or pilot migrations

Data reconciliation

Migration validation

Production cutover

Post-migration issue remediation

Ability to partner effectively with source-system SMEs and translate business and technical requirements into an effective Jira target design.

Strong troubleshooting, technical documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Migration experience involving IBM ELM/RTC/EWM, Azure DevOps, Rally, HP ALM, or another enterprise ALM/work-management platform.

Experience migrating requirements that include traceability, parent-child relationships, cross-references, and custom workflows.

Experience with Jira Cloud and/or Jira Data Center migrations.

Experience with Jira ecosystem applications and migration tools, as appropriate.

Experience supporting large-scale or multi-project migrations.

Experience within regulated government or healthcare environments.

Atlassian certifications or comparable demonstrated Jira expertise.

Expected Deliverables

The Jira Migration SME will be expected to produce and support:

Source-to-target inventory.

Detailed mapping specifications.

Jira target configuration design.

Migration scripts, utilities, and automation.

Documented and repeatable migration procedures.

Pilot migration findings.

Reconciliation and validation reports.

Production cutover plan.

Post-migration stabilization documentation.

Knowledge-transfer documentation.