Principal Solutions Architect – Platforms

Role Overview

• Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provide viable solution options and visibility into execution issues.
• Be a ‘hands-on’ architecture leader, working on cross-entity solutions and complex problems across the Telstra Group.
• Act as a leading subject matter expert to identify, develop, and improve technical and business architecture of solutions for current and future requirements.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture and leverage shared technologies, tools, and processes.
• Engage and influence key technology partners and business stakeholders to develop architecture and engineering guidelines with vendors.
• Provide guidance and make strategic decisions to resolve complex and ambiguous issues and remove blockers for your team.
• Foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling; guide teams in design decisions that minimise future change costs.
• Collaborate with the security team to model a security-first mindset and apply the organisation's security strategy.
• Partner with product owners to build a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organisational strategy.
• Demonstrate effective decision-making and responsible actions to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams.
• Build strong commercial capability by modelling commercial thinking, balancing cost and value.
• Build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation for continuous learning and capability-building.
• Contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices, and planning.
• Use a digital product mindset to recognise product opportunities and differentiators.
• Model Telstra’s values and facilitate inclusive discussions across teams.
• Maintain a high level of capability in software engineering, including new and emerging technologies.
• Shape the future blueprint of how a domain can evolve across infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Enable stakeholders to make informed decisions that balance business outcomes with technical feasibility.
• Contribute to planning and prioritisation, especially around customer strategy and functional roadmaps.

Requirements

• Proven experience in the telecom industry (or similar) with a deep level of domain knowledge in platform enabling technologies related to Internal developer experiences and SDLC
• Deep experience in system integration, architectural design patterns, API‑first design, and event‑driven architecture
• Designing reusable, composable, self‑service platforms
• Platform architecture and product thinking
• Clear platform value propositions, guardrails, and contracts
• Integration and API architectures
• Cloud and infrastructure
• Non-Functional requirements (Security by design, compliance and regulatory awareness, scalability\resilience\availability, cost models)
• Experience in architecture and engineering, and strategic leadership roles in large organisations.
• Hands-on strategic architecture experience to define mid and long-term architecture designs.
• Knowledge of Tele Management Forum (TMF), Open API, Digital Open Architecture, AI architectures and concepts, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, SDLC management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models and agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Effective leadership skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Innovative consulting mindset to drive digital business strategies.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Expertise in distributed systems, networking, software architecture, and software security concepts.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Microservices
• SDLC

Benefits

• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Purchased annual leave scheme
• Additional Telstra day off
• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
• Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)