Backend IT Developer II

in San Diego, CA

Backend IT Developer II Job

Job Description Job Attributes+

  • Job ID

    11962899

  • Req #

    27108

  • Job Location

    San Diego, CA 92106, US

  • Job Category

    Developer/Engineer

  • Job Type

    3-6 Month Contract

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Backend IT Developer II to join our Client's team.


Our client is a product-led organization transforming the way we work from how easy it is to use our IT services to the applications we develop that help us scale seamlessly in the face of incredible growth.


The Corporate Engineering team is responsible for building/providing services and infrastructure that enable our users to be successful. A core area of focus for this role is making project management as efficient as possible by providing powerful Jira enterprise solutions and automation to the company.


Our client is hiring an experienced Jira and Atlassian Solutions Engineer to help scale and optimize our business processes and project management infrastructure as the company continues its hyper-growth. You will be a key member of the Corporate Engineering team to build out governance, best practices and automation for our Atlassian Project Management Systems (Jira, Confluence). You will report to the Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering as part of the CIO's organization.


The impact you will have:

  • You will drive governance and hygiene standards to make the Jira environment a highly performant, purpose-optimized and consistent environment for all teams.
  • You will design and implement solutions that improve business process automation and improve overall user experiences and time to resolution for the user community.
  • You will be responsible for the overall health and availability of all Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) systems
  • You will support and contribute to the company's Business Stakeholders in Project Management best practices, guidelines and implementations.
  • You will collaborate with and contribute to technical integrations between Atlassian systems and external cloud and IT systems.

What we look for:

  • 5+ years of experience or related experience in administering, maintaining and managing Atlassian product suite,
  • 5+ level experience with Jira administration, governance and best practices for Project Management.
  • Has experience integrating Jira with external Enterprise systems such as HR, Incident Management, Messaging and Monitoring systems.
  • Strong hands-on technical skills. Can drill deep into Jira workflows, and be able to design schema configurations and templates to optimize the company business processes when needed.
  • Familiarity with APIs and designing solutions to leverage interfaces to build automation or capabilities such as dashboarding or monitoring.
  • Ability to implement scripting-based automation solutions and collaborate with other software engineers to provide comprehensive business solutions based on Jira.
  • Comfortable programming in languages such as Spark, SQL, Python, node.js, Golang or Scala is ideal.
  • Bachelor's Degree in CIS/MIS, engineering or equivalent and relevant experience

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.


EOE of Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities

Additional Information

Who We Are

ABOUT US
Founded in 1998, Blackstone Talent Group is one of three divisions of Blackstone Technology Group. The other two divisions are Blackstone Federal, a premier engineering + transformation agency that serves the federal government, and Trellis Energy, the largest transaction management software firm fully dedicated to serving the natural gas industry. Blackstone Technology Group is a privately-held global IT services, solutions and resourcing firm. Headquartered in San Francisco, Blackstone now has more than 300+ employees across five offices nationwide. Blackstone Technology Group’s mission is to help clients adapt to the demands of a digital world, and has garnered an impressive track record of delivering successful results to a client list that includes Fortune 100 businesses and US federal, state and local government.

WHAT WE DO
We provide contract, permanent and managed resource services to our clients. We source for commercial businesses and non-profits, as well as government clients requiring security clearances from public trust through multiple levels of top secret. Some of our skill specialties are IT, IT Operations, Engineering, Accounting and Finance, and Executive Search.

HOW WE DO IT
Our team never stops building connections with talent. And our network of fully-vetted, ready-to-work professionals allows us to provide exceptional speed and accuracy in our resource delivery that is unmatched in the industry. With a relationship-first engagement approach, we most often become a trusted partner with our clients and operate as an extension of their organizations.

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