Senior Principal Technical Program Manager - Data Platform

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.
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We're hiring a Senior Principal 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
Your background

• 12+ years experience working with software teams
• 4+ years recent experience leading platform and software teams in a similar Technical Program Management or Technical Product Management role
• Experience building commercial Cloud Services / Platforms
• Experience in designing and building back end software systems, including tradeoffs, launching and scaling. Using this technical expertise and in partnership with your senior engineering stakeholders you'll be able to influence the backend system design, architecture, and build.
• Experience leading strategy and execution on complex, cross divisional, technical programs, including analysing business priorities, customer needs, industry trends and articulating a long-term roadmap.
• Experience driving projects spanning multiple teams, including reaching agreements with your engineering partners and stakeholders, shepherding the projects while identifying and mitigating risks, making trade-off decisions optimising the outcome
• Able to translate customer and/or product requirements into technical requirements

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $230,900 - $307,800
Zone B: $207,800 - $277,000
Zone C: $191,600 - $255,500
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
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.
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