Senior Data Engineering Manager

Senior Data Engineering Manager

Overview

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Overview
Data is a big deal at Atlassian. We ingest billions events each month into our analytics platform and we have dozens of teams across the company depending on the platform to drive their decisions. We are looking for a senior data engineering manager to join our growing Data Engineering Org. In this role, you will lead a high-performing team of engineers focused on designing, building, and scaling foundational analytical data products that power decision-making across the company. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define data strategies, improve data quality and reliability, and deliver reusable data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable analytics at scale. This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of data architecture, engineering excellence, and business impact.

Responsibilities

In this role you will get to

• Build and lead a team of data engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and hands-on career development.

• Provide deep technical guidance and support the team in driving large projects within complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders, gather deep domain expertise, and own delivery of projects across multiple streams.

• Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction, and drive decision-making.

• Inspire innovation and operational excellence within the team and influence other Data Engineering teams.

Qualifications

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

• You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field of study and at least 6-8 years of experience as an individual contributor in a Data Engineering or related Software Engineering role.

• You have 4+ years of experience managing data or related software teams.

• You have a track record of driving and delivering large (multi-person or multi-team) and complex projects.

• You are a great communicator and maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team's success.

• Industry experience working with large-scale, high-performance data processing systems (batch and streaming) with a "Streaming First" mindset to drive Atlassian's business growth and improve the product experience.

• You have stellar people management skills and experience leading agile data or related software teams.

• You are passionate about grooming talent and helping them reach their highest potential.

• You can drive technical excellence, pushing for innovation and quality.

• Experience working with public cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, S3, Databricks, Spark/Spark-Streaming, and Databricks.

We'd be super excited if you have

• Experience with at least one high-level programming language, such as Python

• Understanding and experience building RESTful APIs and microservices

• Experience with Tableau or other reporting tools.

• Basic understanding of Experimentation.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian 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.

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.

We 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. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

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Experience Level

Senior Level