Welcome Wednesday: What's your job title?

[Dave LIAO]

👋 G'day Atlassian Community!

For this Welcome Wednesday[1], I've got two questions[2]:

1. What's your current job title? Or last job title, if you're not currently working.
2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage? Examples: 0%, 25%, 50%, 100%

I'll start!

1. For me, my current job title is "Consultant" (sometimes "Tools Consultant"). Depending on the client, I might be more specific - like "Jira Consultant".
2. My title doesn't always have anything Atlassian-related in my job, but my job is usually 90% focused on Atlassian things.

🙃 Please comment with your answers! Looking forward to your replies.

[1] Welcome Wednesdays are an easy way to participate on the forums, usually on non-Atlassian topics. Check out past Welcome Wednesday posts.
[2] Thanks to Community Champion @John Funk for the idea of surveying the community! One day I hope to meet him in real life.

[Abdiel Martínez Casas]

1. Actualmente soy Automatizador de Pruebas (próximamente Desarrollador)
2. Mi trabajo no es específicamente jira pero también paso 80-90 haciendo cosas dentro de Jira, ya van 3 años viendo y aprovechado el potencial de la herramienta.

[Dave LIAO]

@Abdiel Martínez Casas -

¡Genial! ¡Gracias por compartir!

Nice! Thanks for sharing! (original English)

[Matthew Sinclair]

• What's your current job title? SaaS Administrator - but I tend to Identify myself as One of Two Lead Org Administrator's for all things Atlassian - under my current employer (Aristocrat).
• Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage? Yes - 95-98.99999% - we may do support for 2nd party/3rd party tools that may or may not interact with Atlassian. As the JSM/CSM SME - I tend to be more focused on Atlassian tasks more often than not.

We're a very large Org - 15-20 Sites -  the primary site has 4k Spaces in it. (Yeah - it's - it's a little busy)

[Dave LIAO]

@Matthew Sinclair - I appreciate the five 9's of accuracy in your percentage 😂

[Matthew Sinclair]

Its for those moments I get asked a Tempo question. 🤪😁

[Dave LIAO]

HA! I'd include that under the Atlassian banner, but I get it 😭

[Matthew Sinclair]

Tempo is not Atlassian. Its a 2nd party add on.  I will die on this hill! 🤣🤣🤣

(Its like tea leaves to me...but we take care of our folks. 😁🙂🙃)

[Viswanathan Ramachandran]

Hi @Dave LIAO thanks for the thoughtful post. 

1. What's your current job title? Or last job title, if you're not currently working.

• Enterprise Solutions Engineer - Atlassian Platforms & DevSecOps Enablement (previous role)

2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage?

• Yes, 90% My primary work focused on enterprise Atlassian platform and enablement, JSM/ITSM solutions, migrations, and DevSecOps integrations. 

[Dave LIAO]

Thank YOU for the thoughtful reply!

[Cristian Quiroz Garcia - NTT DATA]

G'day! @Dave LIAO 👋

1. My current job title is Senior Consultant — though in practice I'm an Atlassian Administrator through and through. Day to day it covers Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Assets, and everything in between.

2. 100% Atlassian. From configuring workflows and automation rules, to CMDB design, portal customization, and even onboarding/offboarding integrations — if it has an Atlassian logo on it, I'm probably the one managing it.

😄 Love seeing how many of us end up with generic titles that don't quite capture how deep in the Atlassian ecosystem we really are! 🙃

[Dave LIAO]

😂 It's always entertaining trying to describe our jobs to non-technical and technical folk alike!

[Marita Gustavsen]

1. Up until now, I've been juggling two titles: Team Lead for our Support Team and System Owner for Atlassian. But as of this month, I've officially dropped the Team Lead hat and am now "just" the System Owner for Atlassian (as well as SharePoint). 🥳

2. So far, Atlassian has taken up about 50% of my time, at least on paper. 😅 Looking ahead, I suspect it'll be closer to 75-80% of my workload, if not more.

[Matthew Sinclair]

Your next objective...secretly swap sharepoint for loom/confluence! 🤭🙂

also grats on the psuedo promotion. 😁

[Marita Gustavsen]

Hah! I'll see what I can do 😉🤭

Due to the nature of our documentation, some of it needs to live separately. But my goal is to at least establish some clear guidelines on what goes where, so we're not all playing document hide-and-seek. 😅

Thanks! Looking forward to diving deeper into the Atlassian universe! 🤩

[Dave LIAO]

@Marita Gustavsen - "some of it needs to live separately"

Interesting, let your stakeholders know about Confluence's space-level permissions? Or let them know if you go to an Enterprise plan (assuming you're not on one already), you can have multiple Confluence Cloud instances. 🙃

[Marita Gustavsen]

We didn't have the Enterprise plan when we migrated to the cloud (we do now), so some documentation ended up being moved elsewhere as part of the migration. That decision wasn't really mine to make, and the structure and access controls for that specific content are a bit of a maze. 😅 I'd probably leave that particular area as-is for now.

The good news is that I believe it's being phased out over time, so there's a decent chance I won't have to worry about it forever. 😄

[Tomislav Tobijas]

What's your current job title?

• Team Lead – IT Delivery & Planning Solutions and Senior Atlassian Consultant
  Can be shorter, I know 😅

• All related to Atlassian - I mean, that's why I joined this company, so I can work mainly with Atlassian tools. In my previous company, I was working with them, but it wasn't my primary job 😐

I can just say, I'm pretty happy where I am at the moment :)

[Nam Hung Tran]

Current job title: My official title is Technical Project Manager, but for each project, my involvement is different so my title is changed to align with my role in the project ☺️

Atlassian usage: 25-50%, as the documents are maintained in Confluence and the tasks are created and updated in JIRA.

[Brita Moorus]

1. Head of Atlassian Service Team - I deal with providing technical consultations, manage the team and do sales/demos/trainings. In practice, I step in wherever needed to help our customers and team succeed 🙈
2. 90% Atlassian, 20% team leading 😄 💙

[Dave LIAO]

@Brita Moorus - wait, but that's 110% of you! 😂

[Amanda Barber]

1. What's your current job title? Or last job title, if you're not currently working.
   • PM (AKA Product/Project/Program Manager...depending on the day, LOL)
   • I actually consider myself - Professional Cat Herder (or maybe Professional Mammal Manager...PMM?) 
2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage? Examples: 0%, 25%, 50%, 100%
   • Maybe 52% Atlassian stuff - managing our Teamwork Collection apps, getting folks to use the apps, and managing projects in those apps :-D 

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

My official job title is Anwendungsbetreuer, roughly translated as IT Application Specialist.

On paper, my role is around 50% Atlassian.

Fun fact: within those 50%, I administer, manage, and develop our company’s entire Atlassian stack. During the other 50%, I also look after aQrate, Check Point, Intune, Active Directory, Azure and many more.

So, as often happens in IT, the official title is much shorter than the actual job description. 😅

[Kristin Lyons]

1. What's your current job title? Or last job title, if you're not currently working.
   1. IT Tech Specialist Atlassian
2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage? Examples: 0%, 25%, 50%, 100%
   1. Yes, 100%

[Wayne_Reilly]

1. What's your current job title? Senior Systems Analyst and SME for a bunch of business applications.

2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage? Yes. One of two that work on the Atlassian suite. Probably around 90% of our work is in Atlassian but we work on all business productivity applications. We have around 800 applications though. We have JSM, Confluence, Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Assets and a host of third party apps such as X-ray, Tempo, etc. The third party apps are the tricky ones as you spend a lot of time figuring out what has gone wrong as you only work on them when they are installed or break.

[Darryl Lee]

Huh, I had to look it up to confirm, but my official job title is:

Sr. Systems Engineer, Atlassian

HOWEVER ever since we migrated to Atlassian Cloud (May 2024), I feel like my job is also:

• Hearer of User Complaints
• Chief Complainer
• Support Request Filer

But generally I tell people I'm an Atlassian Admin, and if that elicits a blank stare, then Jira/Confluence Admin, and if THAT doesn't help, "I work with computers."

Atlassian is like 95% of my job.

[Dave LIAO]

@Darryl Lee - welcome to the Atlassian Community! I work with computers too!

I wonder what our Atlassian Support filing count is, over our whole career. I should find someone at Atlassian who can run the JQL to find all the requests filed with my multiple profiles... (ID-240)

[Matt Doar _Adaptavist_]

Be bold: you're a Lightning Rod, Harry!

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_Devoteam_]

I love this subject. Good one!! Here I go:

1. What's your current job title? Product Marketing & Communications Manager (sounds fancy!)
2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? Yes! What percentage? 100%

[Stephen_Lugton]

1. What's your current job title? 
My job title is Agile Delivery Manager and Interim Head of Data Platform depending on the audience

2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all?
Yes, I'm the business area admin and use Atlassian products for 50% to 75% of my time (this depends on when in the sprint cycle we are; first week is about 75%, second week is more like 50%)

[Ivica Prvanovic]

1. Tech Support Specialist | IT Infrastructure & Systems Administrator
2. Yes — about 75% of my work involves Jira.

[Hempel]

1. What's your current job title? Or last job title, if you're not currently working.
   Sr. Community & Influencer Manager
2. Is your job Atlassian-related at all? (yes/no) What percentage? Examples: 0%, 25%, 50%, 100%
   yes... probably 50% ish - I love to join the conversations in the Atlassian community to connect with our clients, prospects, partners, and people in general! I also get to manage organic social media and our influencer strategy for Tempo!

[John Funk]

1. Jira Business Administrator 

2. 100%!

[Matt Doar _Adaptavist_]

Head Toolsmith (I made it up) and about 90% these days.

I have an idea that everyone should have two titles: the one HR gives you and pays you accordingly, and one that you make up that communicates something about what you actually do.