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The Adaptavist Group is hiring a UK Workplace Manager to run its offices across London, Norwich, and Leamington Spa, with oversight of the London Shoreditch site and a role in shaping office culture. The role requires confident administration, initiative, and the ability to work with minimal supervision, including potential line-management of Office Managers, Coordinators, and Cleaners. Responsibilities include day-to-day operations, being the first point of contact for visitors, liaising with staff, suppliers, and clients, and implementing and maintaining office procedures and administrative systems. You’ll coordinate meetings, catering, events, manage office supplies and spend, maintain calendars, handle phone calls and correspondence, and support colleagues as needed. Additional duties include ad-hoc projects such as helping set up new offices, furnishing interiors and logistics, researching future spaces, and reporting attendance to encourage greater office attendance.

We are seeking an experienced Atlassian Jira Engineer (Contractor) to design, scale, and evolve enterprise Jira solutions that power SAFe practices, partnering with Agile Coaches, Product Management, and Engineering leaders to ensure Jira delivers transparency, governance, and continuous improvement. Platform Engineering & Configuration: design and implement enterprise-grade Jira configurations aligned to SAFe constructs (Portfolio Epics, Features, Stories, PIs, value streams), and configure issue hierarchies, workflows, screens, fields, permissions, and schemes to support scaled agile delivery. Enablement & Execution: translate SAFe concepts into Jira implementations, support PI Planning and tracking through Jira and related Atlassian tools, and enable flow metrics, dependency management, and cross-team visibility using Jira data. Customization & Development: develop custom Jira solutions using Automation ScriptRunner (Groovy), Forge/Connect apps, REST APIs and webhooks; build custom fields, listeners, automation rules, and integrations; ensure scalable designs that avoid performance degradation and reduce technical debt. Integrations, Reporting, Governance & Support: integrate Jira with CI/CD pipelines, source control, service management, and portfolio tools; maintain data integrity and secure bidirectional data flows; design dashboards and reports for SAFe-aligned metrics; act as Jira SME, troubleshoot, document standards, and contribute to platform governance and continuous improvement.