Senior Program Manager, Data Platform
Atlassian, Australia

Atlassian is continuing to hirewith all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19.All new and existing Atlassians will continue to work from home until it’s safe to return to our offices. When our offices re-open, we will provide the choice to work from home or return to work in an office unless a job requirement makes it necessary for a particular role to be performed at an Atlassian office.
Atlassian is seeking a Senior Program Manager in its Data Platform team to enhance our effectiveness by leading key technical programs, championing delivery success, and operationalising the platform development processes in order to make our delivery teams more effective.
Ramp;D Program Managers at Atlassian build trusted networks, seek clarity and serve as the grease and the glue to ensure teams deliver complex cross-functional programs as seamlessly as single team projects.
The Data Platform team aims to give seamless federated access to all data across Atlassian, and we believe that all teams should have the ability to access secure data at speed and run ML and insights at scale.
Our team has enormous potential to increase the impact of every Atlassian cloud engineer, from those who work on our internal platforms to those who strive to improve the experiences of our fanatical end-users. But first, we need to empower our own engineering teams and enable them to do the best work of their lives.

More about the role:
Teams building Atlassian's major cloud products and platforms all rely on a robust, reliable platform to shepherd their code from development to production, while maintaining the high standards for our code quality and deployment practices.
You will understand the 'why' behind strategic plans and drive teams to execute on them. You will guide reporting mechanisms, craft communications for various audiences (including executives), set processes for cross team projects, and/or jump into a team to help connect and unblock teams.
To be successful in this role, you will build strong partnerships with the Engineering, Product, and Design leaders. You will engage with many cross-functional teams (with many varying perspectives!) and keep them aligned to satisfy the strategic plan. You will need to deeply understand Atlassian's priorities, and relate them to company level business goals. You're the center of team spirit, and you craft and implement pathways to up-level the teams working toward a common strategy.
We are looking for a dynamic individual who thrives in making order out of ambiguity. Alongside leaders and colleagues, you will develop and apply practices, plays, agile frameworks, enabling autonomous, empowered, and motivated teams.More about you:

• A passion for running complex cross-functional programs in a fast paced environment with many moving parts
• Demonstrated excellence in working with leadership teams and have the ability to guide and challenge leadership teams as a true partner.
• You are a progressive problem solver when it comes to Program Management and program effectiveness. You can think creatively and present strategic vision for operating excellence.
• You’re a coach, a facilitator and a multiplier, passionate about software product teams, with a focus on teamwork and how we can work better together.
• Experience with highly technical teams and skilled in anticipating risks and dependencies on technical programs.
• A track record of translating technical requirements with engineers to break down, scope out, and prioritise tasks.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Relevant professional experience and demonstrated success as a Senior Program Manager within globally distributed teams.
• An ability to mediate and make pragmatic compromises, and help set priorities appropriately across the business
• A track record of setting appropriate expectations, crisp execution, and on-time delivery
• An ability to balance priorities among the long-term vision and short-term execution strategy.
• Experience in diagnosing problems for teams, moving them to good and going above and beyond to ensure they are great.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and are able to draw upon best practices, patterns and agile frameworks to build pathways for autonomous, empowered, and lasting teams for a Future Atlassian.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and ensure teams are driving toward delivery of high quality, operationally sound products and services.
• Comfort with change and ambiguity, and creative thinking to adapt
• Attention to detail: successful history of closing loops and delighting customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills adjusted for different audiences

It's great, but not required if you have:

• Experience driv