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We serve the world's largest and most demanding organisations. Our mission is to ship software that meets the needs of these enterprise-scale customers, so that they remain our greatest advocates.\nIn this position you will set the technical direction for the Enterprise Data Center business unit, influencing over 200 engineers. You will own the hardest cross-team technical problems, from strategy and prioritisation through design, architecture and coding.\nThe world's largest organisations trust Data Center to run their most critical work. You will make sure it stays secure and dependable for every one of them, while building the tools that help them move to Cloud when they are ready. Your work will span long-term security and maintainability, platform modernisation, Marketplace compatibility, migration readiness and AI-driven engineering efficiency.\nA great day for you is one where you show our engineers, in practice, how to solve a particularly complex problem with an elegant solution. You will engage them with your research and your experience of tools, stacks, libraries, design patterns and code. Your best days are the ones when complete teams of engineers follow your lead in finding the best solutions, and are motivated to improve what we ship and how we ship it.\nResponsibilities\nIn this role, you will:\nSet the long-term technical strategy for Data Center: what we change, and how we keep it secure and supportable for every customer that depends on it.\n\nLead the use of AI to transform how we build and maintain Data Center, including large-scale automated migrations, upgrades and dependency work.\n\nOwn the key cross-team architectural decisions and be accountable for their outcomes.\n\nBring Data Center and Cloud closer together through shared data, telemetry and platform services, and help customers adopt cloud-native and AI alternatives to their customisations.\n\nDrive the architecture of migration-readiness capabilities (insights, data cleanup, telemetry) that help our largest and most complex customers move to Cloud.\n\nDesign a sustainable security and maintenance model, so we can keep shipping fixes to customers quickly and safely.\n\nShape the platform and API decisions that affect the Marketplace ecosystem, and partner on the tooling that keeps critical apps compatible.\n\nSet the bar for engineering excellence in design, architecture, code and development practices. We are never done.\n\nMentor and coach engineers and engineering managers, and help them grow their skills in Cloud and AI.\n\nBe a trusted advisor to Heads of Engineering within Team Enterprise and across the company.\n\nRepresent Team Enterprise inside Atlassian, and Atlassian externally across the industry.\n\nQualifications\nQualifications:\n15+ years of experience in software engineering, including technical leadership across multiple organisations or 80+ engineers\".\n\nStrong technical leadership and significant experience designing, building and shipping enterprise-grade solutions.\n\nDeep, proficiency in Java or another JVM-based language (e.g. Kotlin). Working knowledge of OSGi is a bonus.\n\nExperience designing and building broadly used, scalable platforms and platform components.\n\nA track record of influencing a company's technical direction and educating the broader organisation in your area of expertise.\n\nPassion for software engineering excellence and for providing technical guidance, coaching and mentorship.\n\nExperience recognising, raising and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organisations.\n\nThe ability to develop clear technical solutions and bring multiple engineering teams and leaders along with you.\n\nA bias for action: you lead by example and influence by doing the technical work.\n\nIt's great, but not required, if you have:\nA degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nIn-depth knowledge of public cloud, particularly running self-managed software on cloud infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes, AWS, Azure).\n\nExperience with large-scale distributed systems, data and storage technologies, security and reliability, encryption or cryptography.\n\nExperience leading engineers through large, complex projects involving major changes to the technology stack.\n\nBenefits & Perks\nAtlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.\nAbout Atlassian\nAt 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.\nWe 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. 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