Principal Enterprise Architect

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The Principal Enterprise Technical Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining, designing, and guiding the implementation of complex enterprise solutions. This role partners with business and technology stakeholders to ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with organizational strategy. The Principal Architect is expected to drive technical vision, mentor teams, and represent the organization in high-impact customer and industry engagements.
Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Solution Design: Architect end-to-end technical solutions for large-scale, complex enterprise environments, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology strategy.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering and architecture teams, promoting best practices in software design, security, and operational excellence.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business leaders, product managers, and customers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Innovation & Standards: Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices; drive adoption of new technologies and methodologies where appropriate.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure solutions meet regulatory, security, and compliance requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO, SOC2).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across multiple teams and domains to drive consistency, reduce redundancy, and ensure cohesive architecture across the organization.
• Customer Advocacy: Represent the voice of the customer in product and platform decisions, providing actionable feedback to internal teams.
• Documentation & Communication: Produce clear technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentorship: Coach and develop junior architects and engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Pre-Sales & Advisory: Support pre-sales activities, including technical scoping, solution demonstrations, and advisory services for strategic customers.

Your background

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or related technical roles, with a strong background in SaaS, cloud, and enterprise platforms
• 8+ years in enterprise customer-facing roles, including consulting, solution architecture, or technical leadership
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP preferred)
• Deep knowledge of security, compliance, and regulatory frameworks relevant to enterprise environments
• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Access, etc.) or similar enterprise platforms is highly desirable.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills; ability to influence and guide technical teams and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to drive technical vision, lead cross-functional initiatives, and deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with regulated industries and compliance requirements.
• Experience leading architecture programs, migrations, or major transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Current certifications in cloud platforms or Atlassian products.

Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
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