Atlassian is continuing to hire with 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.

Job description

Atlassian is seeking an experienced, strategic, and innovative IT Enterprise Architect to lead in the transformation of our enterprise IT platforms, products, and services. This individual will act as a trusted technical leader and strategic thought leader to the IT leadership team.

The IT Enterprise Architecture team is accountable for envisioning an IT 3 year strategy that considers target-state architectures, process improvements, technology strategy, and the fiscal year investments needed to achieve Atlassian’s goals.

What's expected in this role:

• Take the lead in translating Atlassian’s business goals into architectural designs; apply critical and creative thinking/approach to technology strategies that further business objectives while keeping in mind performance, reliability, scalability, usability, security, flexibility, and cost
• Routinely tackles cross-team and cross-domain architecture challenges and proactively deconstructs large problems that may span across teams
• Interact with and influences leaders in IT, engineering, and business functions; effectively rally cross-departmental teams to tackle difficult challenges; build relationships with key architects across organizations and collaborate on promoting architectural best practices across technology
• Foster a culture of discussion and innovation: spar with more junior engineers to improve the architecture for new projects; teach others how to apply architecture patterns common or standard across the enterprise
• Build shared responsibility for maintaining a high-quality standard for multiple solution teams across the organization
• Extend existing architecture standards; own the Business Capability Map and models, Enterprise Architecture; Influence solution architecture
• Push the organization forward towards innovations that are adopted across multiple domains; actively learns from the broader industry and brings insights back to the organization
• Collaborate with IT’s Strategic Planning group to influence investment roadmaps
• Consider the use of Atlassian’s products in our architecture; work with the Customer Zero team on product feedback; share our approach externally with customers

What you will bring to the role

• Broad and technical experience; Is an expert in multiple technical topics or business domains (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.) technology and architecture; experience leading large-scale transformation projects and implementations
• Deep experience in complex system design within companies with different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging, and hybrid)
• Strong understanding and experience with implementing modern application solutions by executing programs at scale leveraging Agile methodologies
• Experience with cloud-first architectures (SaaS, PaaS, iPaaS), intelligent automations, and modern integration architectures
• Knowledge of existing, new, and emerging technologies and able to apply them to new business designs and business models
• Demonstrated ability to succeed in driving projects when the approach, challenges, and key objectives start out very unclear

Skills you will need in this role

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to create original concepts and hypotheses for a variety of projects
• Strong system and data flow knowledge; ability to learn and adapt to new product flows and software technologies
• A collaborative and influential approach that gains agreement to move forward with new approaches; proven experience with driving adoption of architecture across multiple groups
• A deep curiosity and eagerness to learn about and apply existing, new, and emerging technologies to rapidly evolving business and operating models
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate business problems in technical solutions
• Ability to switch anytime from being a high-level strategy person to an “in the weeds” technical person
• High level of energy and a desire to thrive in a large, complex, fast-paced organization; ability to handle multiple projects under pressure

Credentials and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience; M.B.A. , architecture framework (eg, TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner) certification a plus
• Combined 12+ years of experience in several of the following areas: software design and development; architecting of modern heavily utilized, highly available applications
• Broad knowledge and experience in architecture domains, including business, application, data, infrastructure and security architectures

More about our benefits

Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.

More about Atlassian

Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.

Additional Information

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

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