Jira Architect at Harmattan AI (Paris, France)
Harmattan AI· Paris, France·
Role details
Harmattan AI at a glance
France's first defense-tech unicorn, building attritable AI-piloted strike, interception, and ISR drones for allied militaries.
Harmattan AI is a vertically integrated defense prime building autonomous drone systems for allied militaries. It designs the full stack, from airframes and payloads to embedded compute and the autonomy algorithms that let drones sense, decide, and act at the edge without GPS or a network link, coordinated across a swarm by its mission-orchestration layer.
$242M raised · latest: Series B · $200M · January 2026 · backed by Dassault Aviation, FirstMark Capital, Atlantic, Motier Ventures
Job description
About Us
Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces. Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected.
About the Role
As Jira Architect, you will own Jira end to end across Harmattan AI’s Product and R&D organizations. You will design a single master structure, standardize how teams plan and track their work, and turn Jira into the reliable source of truth for engineering coordination. You will also use AI to remove manual admin and reporting, so that coordination keeps pace as the company scales.
Responsibilities
- Design a master Jira architecture across all projects: hierarchy, issue types, workflows, fields and permissions.
- Audit existing projects and interview Product and R&D leads to map how teams really work.
- Standardize workflows while preserving team autonomy, and migrate teams onto the common structure.
- Build standard templates that let a new team or project onboard in hours.
- Deliver portfolio views and dashboards that give leadership cross-team visibility.
- Automate triage, summaries and reporting with Jira automation, scripting and AI.
- Run governance: admin rules, and clean-up of unused projects, fields and schemes.
- Connect Jira with the wider stack, including Confluence and ERP/PLM tools where relevant.
Candidate Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on experience as a Jira admin or Atlassian consultant.
- Led at least one large Jira restructuring or migration covering dozens of projects.
- Deep knowledge of Jira Cloud: workflows, schemes, permissions, automation, JQL and Plans.
- Solid understanding of how R&D and product engineering teams work, in both hardware and software development.
- Regular use of AI tools and scripting (Python, REST API a plus) to automate admin and reporting.
- Consulting mindset: structured and pragmatic, able to drive change and secure adoption of a standard, diplomatically but firmly.
- Fluency in English required; French is a plus.
We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.
Why work at Harmattan AI
- Culture: “Elite builders” who “thrive on complexity, move with urgency, and own their work end to end.” Emphasis on purpose, technical excellence, and real‑world impact. harmattan.ai
- Values: Tackle the hardest problems, build what matters, move at the speed of relevance, and aim to redefine frontiers. harmattan.ai
- Work policy: Hybrid model with a mix of remote and on‑site; many roles are in‑office at locations in Paris, Lausanne, London, Arlington (TX), Wissous, Poland, UAE, and Morocco. builtin.com
- Engineering culture: Hands‑on development of mission‑critical autonomous systems; strong R&D focus across AI, computer vision, RF hardware, propulsion, and mission planning.
- Perks: Not explicitly listed, but the company highlights the opportunity to protect front‑line personnel and shape the future of autonomous defence.