Senior Platform Architect – Enterprise Cloud & DX

Telstra; Muswellbrook; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Solution architecture

Lead capability

Domain-driven design

Tools

Splunk

New Relic

API gateways

Job description

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