Senior Technical Program Manager - Core Data Platform

Working at Atlassian
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This is a remote position based in Australia or New Zealand. With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand.
Your future team
We're hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager for Core Data Platform, reporting to our Head of Technical Program Management within our TPM team. You'll partner with the Head of Engineering and other Engineering Managers from Core Data Platform to work on complex programs such as consolidating our platform to bring together all of Atlassian's data, enhancing the developer experience, engineering excellence and accelerating time to market for powering Atlassian's new product initiatives.
What you'll do

• You'll understand business goals and translate them into technical systems problems that need to be prioritized and solved in the current business environment.
• Define specific systems programs and create a plan of action for realizing those programs. Such programs could be around reliability improvements and more.
• Use your technical understanding of Atlassian and related systems to partner with and influence engineers and architects in making progress on these problems.
• Responsible for taking a systematic approach to engineering problems. This includes: prioritizing tasks, scoping out the project, defining objectives, and making consistent progress against each of these.
• Be accountable for the success of these technical programs by managing the entire lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, etc.
• Manage complex dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company
• Collaborate with functions across the company to create reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery solutions for all of Atlassian's services

Your background

• 5+ years recent experience collaborating with software teams to deliver software services/solutions in similar relevant roles such as Technical Platform Product Manager, Technical/Software Program Manager, or Engineering/Development Manager
• You have knowledge of Cloud Storage and a background in Core Data and related Infrastructure, such as API's, microservices, storage systems, and data platforms
• Experience in designing and building back end software systems, including tradeoffs, launching and scaling. Using this technical expertise and in partnership with your engineering stakeholders you'll be able to influence the backend system design, architecture, and build
• Experience analysing business priorities, customer needs, industry trends and articulating a technical roadmap for your product area in collaboration with engineering partners
• You've led complex technical projects end to end, spanning multiple teams and dependancies, including collaborating with engineering stakeholders, identifying and mitigating risks, and making trade-off decisions to optimise the outcome
• Able to translate customer and/or product requirements into technical requirements
• Experience building commercial Cloud Services is a big plus

Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
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