Senior Work Management Engineer

About the role

The E.W. Scripps Company is seeking a Senior Work Management Engineer to own and evolve our enterprise-wide work management platform. This role offers an opportunity to shape how teams across Scripps collaborate, deliver services, and drive operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner of Scripps' enterprise Atlassian platform, and all related capabilities.
• Design, configure, maintain, and continuously improve platform functionality to support business and technology operations.
• Work directly with business and technology teams to understand requirements, translate processes into scalable solutions, and ensure the platform delivers measurable business value.
• Maintain platform standards, security, permissions, data quality, configuration management, documentation, and lifecycle governance to ensure a scalable and sustainable environment.
• Develop and support automation, integration, and emerging platform capabilities that improve efficiency, data quality, user experience, and enterprise-wide connectivity.
• Create dashboards, metrics, and reporting solutions that provide insight into platform performance, service delivery, operational effectiveness, and organizational outcomes.
• Support onboarding, training, documentation, and best practices to drive adoption, consistency, and effective use of the platform across the enterprise.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external implementation partners to identify opportunities for consolidation, process improvement, self-service, AI enablement, and long-term platform maturity.

Requirements

• BS/BA in related discipline or equivalent years of experience preferred
• Generally, 5+ years of experience in related field preferred
• Atlassian certification and/or ITIL 4 Foundation or higher preferred

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience administering and configuring Atlassian solutions, and all related platform capabilities.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable workflows, configurations, automations, and technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of ITSM principles and experience supporting incident, change, request, problem, and service delivery processes.
• Experience implementing integrations, APIs, automation frameworks, and connected solutions that improve operational efficiency and data quality.
• Ability to develop dashboards, metrics, reporting, and performance insights that drive data-informed decision making.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, drive adoption, and continuously improve platform capabilities and user experience.
• Familiarity with GitLab, pipeline integrations, DevOps toolchains, Marketplace apps, REST APIs, scripting, and integration platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage reporting/BI tools, advanced work-management analytics, server-to-cloud or instance consolidation migrations, agile/PMO practices to partner effectively with diverse business stakeholders including media, programming, or marketing.
• Strong process enablement skills with the ability to translate real world workflows into scalable, maintainable enterprise workflows.

Skills

• Atlassian certification and/or ITIL 4 Foundation or higher preferred

Benefits

SCRIPPS’ COMMITMENT TO A CULTURE THAT CREATES CONNECTION: At Scripps, we are committed to a culture that reflects the audiences and communities we serve. We are intentional about creating an environment where employees, our audiences and other stakeholders feel valued and inspired to reach their full potential and create connections. To successfully deliver on this commitment, we must understand and reflect the values and perspectives those around us embody. That process begins by looking inward to build and celebrate a respectful workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging and connection.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

This is a remote position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The E.W. Scripps Company and its affiliates do not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law.