Senior Platform Architect

Staff Applications Developer Position Overview

As a seasoned Staff Applications Developer, you will play a pivotal role in spearheading the technical foundation of our platforms, ensuring they operate at optimal levels. Your expertise will be instrumental in driving architectural integrity and operational excellence across our Atlassian suite.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join our team and contribute to the development of innovative solutions that enhance user experiences worldwide. You will collaborate with a talented group of engineers, Business Systems Analysts, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to define joint requirements and deliver outcomes that meet the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a multi-pod team of application developers and BSAs.
• Drive the strategic roadmap for the Atlassian platform, aligning with the broader vision of the organization.
• Help with hiring Atlassian admins, App Developers, and coach/enable them to enhance their skills as BSAs.
• Ability to build the team and enable it to be high performing.
• Be a trusted advisor for team members and leadership, helping the team navigate differences of opinion to commit and move forward.

System Analysis

You will analyze complex business requirements to understand the specific needs of the organization. This involves identifying areas where process automation, custom development, or AI-powered solutions can add significant value, improving efficiency, relevance, and user satisfaction.

• Analyze complex business requirements to understand the specific needs of the organization.
• Identify areas where process automation, custom development, or AI-powered solutions can add significant value, improving efficiency, relevance, and user satisfaction.

Solution Design & Architecture

As a Staff Applications Developer, you will design and architect robust, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions across both Atlassian Data Center and Cloud, often in a co-hosted, multi-instance environment. You will drive strategic initiatives that enable the platform to scale with heavy usage and complex integrations.

• Design and architect robust, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions across both Atlassian Data Center and Cloud, often in a co-hosted, multi-instance environment.
• Drive strategic initiatives that enable the platform to scale with heavy usage and complex integrations.

Atlassian Configuration & Custom Development

You will oversee the development of custom scripts, plugins, and integrations using tools like Groovy, the Atlassian SDK, Forge, and REST APIs. You will guide the team in creating and modifying complex workflows, automations, and custom fields to support business processes.

• Oversee the development of custom scripts, plugins, and integrations using tools like Groovy, the Atlassian SDK, Forge, and REST APIs.
• Guide the team in creating and modifying complex workflows, automations, and custom fields to support business processes.

Platform Health & Operational Excellence

You will maintain a strategic overlook of service health, scale, availability, and reliability to ensure platform stability. You will drive operational excellence by building quick, efficient solutions to immediate problems while planning for long-term health.

• Maintain a strategic overlook of service health, scale, availability, and reliability to ensure platform stability.
• Drive operational excellence by building quick, efficient solutions to immediate problems while planning for long-term health.

Testing and Validation

You will develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate platform solutions, automations, and integrations. You will troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to platform functionality and performance.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate platform solutions, automations, and integrations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to platform functionality and performance.

Security and Compliance

You will ensure all Atlassian implementations adhere to strict security and compliance standards, especially when handling sensitive data. You will define and enforce access controls, roles, and security settings for users.

• Ensure all Atlassian implementations adhere to strict security and compliance standards, especially when handling sensitive data.
• Define and enforce access controls, roles, and security settings for users.

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