Job Title
Enterprise Atlassian Platform Lead
Ref #
58781
Date posted
Friday, February 6, 2026
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Woking
Business area
IT
Department
IT
Position level
4 - Management / Technical Expert (L-18)
Working time
Full Time
Contract type
Fixed Term Contract
Duration
2 Years
Working pattern
9am - 6pm Monday to Friday
Salary
£
What to Expect

Own McLaren’s Atlassian ecosystem (e.g., Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence and related tooling) end-to-end. Act as the technology evangelist and accountable owner for platform strategy, governance, adoption and value delivery, while coordinating and assisting in technical delivery and providing enterprise-grade support.


What You'll Do
  • Platform ownership: define and maintain Atlassian platform vision, roadmap, guardrails and operating model (cloud/on‑prem as applicable).
  • Governance & standards: establish configuration standards (workflows, schemes, permissions, naming, templates), manage technical debt, and assure auditability and compliance.
  • Enterprise support: own incident/problem/change for Atlassian services; lead root cause analysis and continual service improvement.
  • Technical delivery coordination: translate cross‑functional requirements into epics/backlog; coordinate delivery across IT, engineering teams and suppliers.
  • Automation & integration: design/oversee automations, APIs and integrations (identity, DevOps toolchains, collaboration/reporting) to reduce friction and manual effort.
  • Adoption & evangelism: run enablement (training, communities of practice, playbooks), coach teams on best practice usage, and drive consistent ways of working.
  • Vendor & licence management: manage licences/add‑ons, evaluate marketplace apps, oversee renewals and cost optimisation.
  • Metrics & reporting: define KPIs (usage, cycle time, service performance, adoption), provide dashboards and insights to stakeholders.
  • Security & resilience: ensure role-based access, data protection, backup/restore, performance monitoring and upgrade/patch cadence.
  • Leadership: mentor platform analysts/administrators and set delivery priorities.
What You'll Bring
  • Strong hands-on administration of Jira/Confluence (and ideally Jira Service Management), including complex workflows, schemes, permissions, automations and reporting.
  • Experience operating an enterprise collaboration/work management platform with governance, service management and stakeholder engagement.
  • Experience with Atlassian marketplace apps, scripting/automation (e.g., ScriptRunner/Groovy), APIs and integration patterns.
  • Working knowledge of Agile delivery and/or service management practices (Scrum/Kanban, ITIL concepts).
  • Ability to lead cross-functional delivery, manage backlog and prioritisation, and communicate trade-offs clearly.
  • Experience in championing organisation‑wide training, awareness, and best‑practice methodologies as a proactive technology evangelist, driving consistent adoption and continuous improvement across teams.

Personal Attributes:

  • Technology evangelist mindset: proactive in driving adoption and continuous improvement.
  • Strong customer focus and service orientation; calm and structured under pressure.
  • Clear communicator who can translate between business need and technical implementation.
  • Pragmatic, standards-led and able to balance speed with governance.
  • Collaborative leader who develops others and builds communities of practice 
  • Proactive and self-motivated.
  • Delivery and outcome focused.
  • Works collaboratively and puts the ‘team’ ahead of ‘self’
  • Good communication written and verbal
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • Structured career development framework
  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
  • Enhanced company pension scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus award
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Life assurance benefit
  • Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • Generous parental leave policies
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. 

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey. 

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