Principal Forward Deployed Architect

Job description

Overview Working at Atlassian: Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Responsibilities: About the Role: The Forward Deployed Architect (FDA) is a trusted transformation architect who combines enterprise-grade technical design with consulting-grade business acumen to shape how strategic customers adopt Atlassian as their operating system for work. This is not a traditional Solutions Engineer role, nor a hands-on-keyboard engineering role. The FDA is the architect in the room — the person who turns a CIO's ambiguous “modernize how we work” into a credible, phased, AI-native architecture and the business transformation plan that makes it stick across HR, Finance, Marketing, PMO, Operations, and Engineering. You will be embedded with 1–3 strategic accounts at a time , typically for 3–9 months each, owning both the technical truth and the business transformation narrative end-to-end. What You'll Do: Business Transformation & Expansion: Design the customer's...