Senior Data Engineering Manager
Atlassian · Posted Oct 20
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Data is central to everything at Atlassian: the team ingests billions of events each month into its analytics platform and builds and manages Atlassian's analytical and operational data store so teams can make informed decisions and run operations on trusted data and services. This role sits in the Finance Data Engineering team within the Data Engineering department, leading a team of data engineers while providing deep technical guidance in a scalable data ecosystem and partnering with Business Teams, Data Science, and the Analytics Platform group.
What you will do
- Leadership: Hire, coach, mentor, and provide career development for a team of data engineers.
- Technical Guidance: Provide deep technical expertise in data engineering within a scalable ecosystem.
- Engineering Excellence: Drive cultural and process improvements to elevate quality and efficiency.
- Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams (Business Teams, Data Science, and Analytics Platform) to foster a collaborative culture.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 6–8+ years in a software development role (Individual Contributor).
- 4+ years of people management experience leading agile teams.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience with cloud stacks: AWS, S3, Databricks, Spark/Spark Streaming, graph databases, dbt.
- Knowledge of enterprise data architectural standards, dimensional modeling, test automation, and continuous delivery.
- Education: Graduate degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline.
Preferred qualifications
- Building RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Experience with Tableau.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
Benefits and support
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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