Principal Solution Architect

Telstra; Muswellbrook; Presencial; AUD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Telstra is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to shape the architectural direction of enterprise platform capabilities. You will define the target state, drive solutions at scale, and lead architectural decisions across MFEs, BFFs, and cloud-native services.

The role requires strong leadership, deep domain experience, and a proven track record in large telecom environments. As part of the Platform Software Engineering (PSE) patch, you will ensure platform investments align with the Telstra

Formación

• Senior experience in software engineering and solution architecture in large enterprise or telecommunications.
• Proven experience delivering complex multi-system solutions across teams and platforms.
• Strong understanding of architecture principles and distributed systems.
• Experience influencing architecture decisions across large organisations.
• Track record architecting enterprise platform components or developer platforms.
• Experience designing enterprise platforms and reusable business capabilities.
• Experience applying capability-based architecture and domain-driven design.
• Knowledge of platform operating models and lifecycle management.

Responsabilidades

• Drive 1-to-3 year platform roadmaps aligned with business outcomes and technology direction.
• Define architectural blueprints for reusable enterprise services and APIs.
• Ensure TRAM alignment and TMF Open API standards across platforms.
• Lead end-to-end architecture for multi-domain initiatives with MFEs, BFFs, and microservices.
• Embed high availability, DR, zero-trust security, and privacy-by-design from inception.
• Improve developer experience and operational excellence through internal portals, CI/CD patterns, and test data management.
• Standardise observability with telemetry, tracing, and logging across platforms.
• Identify bottlenecks and plan cloud cutovers and legacy modernisation.

Conocimientos

Senior software engineering

Solution architecture

Lead capability

Domain-driven design

Herramientas

Splunk

New Relic

API gateways

Descripción del empleo

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

29 Oct 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Principal Solution Architect

Job Summary

In this role you are the technical authority responsible for shaping the strategic vision, architectural direction, and target state solution designs for enterprise-wide platform capabilities.

Operating within the Platform Software Engineering (PSE) patch, you will define and evolve the architecture of strategic engineering platforms that enable product teams to build, integrate, test, deploy, and operate solutions at scale. This includes driving architectural outcomes across developer experience, integration, cloud platforms, engineering tooling, software delivery lifecycle (SDLC), test automation, observability, security, and reusable platform services.

Job Description

About Us

At Telstra, our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. It is a future that will not happen on its own. It has to be delivered, and Telstra brings together the people, platforms and technology needed to create it.

As Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company, we are transforming how millions of customers connect through world-class digital experiences, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled capabilities and next-generation technologies.

Our Technology team is at the heart of this transformation, creating scalable, secure and reusable platforms that power customer, product, sales, service and operational experiences across Telstra.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Solution Architect - Platform Architecture to help shape the next generation of enterprise platforms and digital capabilities that will enable Telstra's future growth and innovation.

The Opportunity

You will provide architectural leadership for platform capabilities such as Micro-Frontends (MFEs), Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) orchestration, Workflow-as-a-Service (WFLaaS), TMF Open APIs, cloud-native services, integration patterns, and engineering accelerators. Working closely with Group Owners, Chapter Type Leads, Product Owners, and Engineering Leads, you will ensure platform investments align with the Telstra Reference Architecture Model (TRAM), deliver operational resilience, and accelerate engineering productivity and delivery outcomes across the enterprise.

Accountabilities

Strategic Platform Vision & Architectural Leadership

• Drive 1-to-3 Year Platform Roadmaps: Formulate and maintain the target solution architecture for platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise business outcomes and technology direction.

• Modular Platform Design: Define architectural blueprints for reusable enterprise services, including workflow engines (WFLaaS, TOE), API gateways, and component marketplaces.

• Reference Architecture Alignment: Enforce compliance with the Telstra Reference Architecture Model (TRAM), TM Forum (TMF) Open API standards, and enterprise design patterns.

End-to-End Solution Architecture & Technical Governance

• Complex Solution Delivery: Lead end-to-end architecture across multi-domain initiatives involving MFE/BFF front-end layers, microservices backends, and cloud
• Non-Functional & Security Architecture: Ensure solutions embed high availability, disaster recovery, zero-trust security guardrails, and privacy-by-design from inception.

Developer Experience & Operational Excellence Uplift

• Developer Experience (DQX) Enablement: Collaborate with engineering leads to architect internal developer portal capabilities, CI/CD integration patterns, and test data management (1TDM).
• Observability Standardisation: Architect comprehensive telemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging frameworks across platform components using Splunk and New Relic.
• Technical Debt & Legacy Modernisation: Identify architectural bottlenecks, drive cloud cutovers (Aztech/Cloud Gateway), and formulate decommissioning strategies for legacy middleware.

Must Have

• Senior Experience in software engineering and solution architecture, with at least 3-5 years in a Lead or Principal Solution Architect capacity within a large enterprise or telecommunications ecosystem.

• Proven experience delivering complex solutions involving multiple systems, teams, platforms and business domains.

• Strong understanding of architecture principles, distributed systems and modern software engineering practices.

• Experience influencing architecture decisions across large and complex organisations.

• Demonstrated track record of architecting large-scale, enterprise platform components, API ecosystems, or developer platform initiatives.

• Strong experience designing enterprise platforms and reusable business capabilities.

• Experience applying capability-based architecture and domain-driven design principles.

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Why Telstra?

At Telstra, you can thrive your way.

We foster innovation, experimentation, continuous learning and flexible ways of working. We believe diverse perspectives create better solutions and help us build a more connected future.

Join a team where you will have the opportunity to solve complex problems at scale, shape strategic technology platforms and influence the digital experiences of millions of customers.

Build the future with us.