Senior Orchestration Platform Lead - Temporal & TypeScript

Telstra Corporation; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Lead to drive the TRAMAS orchestration project, mentor a geographically diverse team of senior and junior developers, and contribute hands-on technical leadership across Temporal-based systems and a new micro-service architecture built on TypeScript.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Service Designers, and System Owners to design transitions, resolve complex issues, and advance observability, AI-driven workflows, and system integrations in

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Solution Architect delivering complex enterprise software and cloud solutions.
• Strong expertise in Cloud, Data & AI Engineering including Generative AI, Agentic AI concepts, AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, observability, and AI cost optimisation.
• Deep understanding of telecommunications transition management platforms and workflows, including service orchestration, order lifecycle management, activation, disconnection, and exception handling.
• Proven experience with ACMA-regulated number porting processes, regulatory compliance requirements, and solution design within regulated environments.
• Strong ability to analyze and resolve complex technical, operational, customer, and business issues, including root cause identification and risk assessment.
• Ability to act as a trusted technical leader, providing guidance across architecture, solution design, business analysis, production support, and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience collaborating with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, Architects, SMEs, and Delivery Teams to define technology strategy and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Senior and Junior geographically diverse developers in building a new resilient and scalable TRAMAS orchestration system using Temporal and micro-service architecture built on TypeScript.
• Support, debug and build workflows for the existing TRAMAS orchestration solution.
• Provide level 4 support for errored transitions, using Splunk, AWS Console, MongoDB to identify root causes and work with Product Owners and other teams to ensure proper progression of transitions.
• Support Product Owner and Service Designers in designing new transitions and workflows.
• Assist North and South bound Product and System Owners to integrate with TRAMAS orchestration solutions.
• Stand in for the TRAMAS Product Owner during periods of leave and unavailability.
• Research and development of new Orchestration and related technologies.
• Build, maintain and enhance observability platforms.
• Setup and utilise Agentic AI Workflows to enhance development capabilities.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Data & AI Engineering

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Prompt Engineering

Observability

AI Cost Optimisation

Tools

Splunk

AWS Console

MongoDB

Job description

Telstra is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Lead to drive the TRAMAS orchestration project, mentor a geographically diverse team of senior and junior developers, and contribute hands-on technical leadership across Temporal-based systems and a new micro-service architecture built on TypeScript.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Service Designers, and System Owners to design transitions, resolve complex issues, and advance observability, AI-driven workflows, and system integrations in