Lead technical programs for Core Data Services and infrastructure, translating business objectives into prioritized systems initiatives. Define plans, manage scope, dependencies, budgets, schedules, and forecasts, and guide programs through their full lifecycle. Partner with engineers and architects to improve reliability and develop cost-effective disaster recovery solutions across Atlassian services.
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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.
Your future team
You will help 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.
We're hiring a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager for Core Data Services, reporting to our Head of Technical Program Management within our Data Platform TPM team. You are a TPM with a background in Core Data and related Infrastructure.
What you'll do
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
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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.
Your future team
You will help 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.
We're hiring a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager for Core Data Services, reporting to our Head of Technical Program Management within our Data Platform TPM team. You are a TPM with a background in Core Data and related Infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Understand business objectives and translate them into technical systems problems to be prioritized.
- 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.
- Address engineering problems by prioritizing tasks, scoping out the project, defining objectives, and making progress on each of these.
- Be accountable for the success of these technical programs by managing the entire lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, and scheduling.
- 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.
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
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