Jira Workflow Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 25, 2026.
About the Role :
We are looking for a Jira Workflow Engineer with 7-12 years of experience to design and manage complex workflows across the organization.
Requirements :
- 5+ years of Jira administration and workflow development experience, including custom workflow schemes, permission schemes, and screen/field configuration.
- Demonstrated experience building approval-chain workflows spanning multiple departments.
- Experience designing SDLC workflows in Jira for engineering teams (epic/story/task hierarchies, sprint boards, release/deployment gates, code-review and QA sign-off states, bug/incident linkage).
- Experience designing compliance-specific workflows (audit evidence capture, policy exception requests, control-attestation cycles, access-recertification cadences).
- Experience with Jira automation rules, and integration of Jira with identity/access systems (e.g., JumpCloud, SSO providers), CI/CD tools, and notification systems.
- Exposure to AI-driven process optimization (e.g., AI-assisted triage, auto-routing, summarization, or approval-recommendation).
- Experience with Jira Service Management (JSM) forms and intake design for non-technical requesters.
- Understanding of access-governance and least-privilege principles.
- Healthcare or regulated-industry experience preferred.
Responsibilities :
- Design and build the New Employee Onboarding workflow : role-based access provisioning, cross-functional sign-off, audit trail.
- Design and build the Internal Access Request and Approval workflow, including escalation paths and SLA tracking.
- Design and build the Vendor (B2B) Onboarding and Approval workflow, including risk/compliance sign-off and hand-off to Legal.
- Design and build a standard SDLC workflow for engineering teams : backlog to sprint to code review to QA to release, with defined transition gates and defect/incident linkage.
- Design and build compliance-team workflows : audit evidence requests, control attestations, policy exceptions, periodic access recertification structured for audit defensibility.
Skills
Jira, Workflows, JQL, SDLC, SSO Integration, SLA