Senior Technical Program Manager - Core Data Platform

Overview

You will shape a modern technical program management organization. The goal is to steer us through growth and remove barriers in the journey towards our long-term goals. You will have a unique challenge of finding agreement by creating guardrails and removing barriers to help our teams accelerate. As a cloud service provider, we build resilience into our systems to ensure service and data availability for our customers in the event of failures in system components. However, even the best systems have to have a disaster recovery plan.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

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 are a TPM with a background in Core Data and related Infrastructure

You understand business objectives and translate them into technical systems problems that need to be prioritized 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

Qualifications

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

• 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 …