Senior Solutions Architect

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

Job summary

Telstra, Melbourne, is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead end-to-end solution design and governance across cloud, network and enterprise architecture domains. You will partner with product owners, engineering leads and enterprise architects to translate business strategy into technology outcomes and drive autonomous network initiatives.

You will guide architecture decisions, enable machine-driven operations, and ensure consistent modelling across products and services while maintaining

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or Technical Design leadership roles.
• Expertise in the Knowledge Plane - designing architectures that transform data and unstructured information into trusted, contextualised and reusable knowledge suitable for machine reasoning.
• Apply semantic modelling, ontology, taxonomy and knowledge representation techniques to enable machine-consumable knowledge assets.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, high-reliability real-time technology solutions across cloud, network or telecommunications environments.
• Deep understanding of systems integration, APIs, service-oriented and event-driven architectures.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead End-to-End Solution Design across components, patterns and technology strategies.
• Drive autonomous network and cloud capabilities, automation and closed-loop operations.
• Model knowledge across products, services, infrastructure and operational domains.
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to shape future-state architecture.
• Govern delivery with architectural integrity and promote reuse, simplification and standardisation.
• Influence senior stakeholders on architecture direction, priorities and investments.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Knowledge Plane

Semantic modelling

Ontology

Knowledge representation

Knowledge graph

APIs

Event-driven architectures

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

29 Oct 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Solutions Architect

Job Summary

Your role is instrumental in providing expertise and support to internal and external stakeholders in the delivery of Telstra's solutions. You use your deep technical expertise to ensure solutions deliver a great customer experience. Core to enabling wholistic solutions to be designed, implemented, and maintained, is your continuous learning mindset, focus on collaborative teamwork and broad technical capability.

Job Description

What You'll Do

Lead End-to-End Solution Design

• Define solution components, patterns and technology strategies.

• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements and technology roadmaps.

• Guide delivery teams through architecture decisions and implementation.

Drive Autonomous Network and Cloud Capabilities

• Design architectures that enable automation, orchestration and closed-loop operations.

• Support the development of trusted knowledge models that underpin autonomous operations.

• Translate business intent, policies and operational requirements into machine-consumable solutions.

• Enable AI-driven decision-making using contextual and operational knowledge.

Knowledge and Service Modelling

• Define service models, semantic relationships and capability mappings across complex technology ecosystems.

• Support development of knowledge graphs, service awareness and dependency mapping capabilities.

• Ensure consistent modelling across products, services, infrastructure and operational domains.

Stakeholder Leadership

• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to shape future-state architecture.

• Translate business strategy into technology outcomes

• Influence senior stakeholders on architecture direction, priorities and investment decisions.

• Facilitate architecture reviews, design governance and decision-making forums.

Solution Governance and Continuous Improvement

• Maintain architectural integrity throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification and standardisation.

• Drive adoption of best practices, reference architectures and engineering standards.

• Support technology modernisation and digital transformation initiatives

We're Looking For

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or Technical Design leadership roles.

• Expertise in the Knowledge Plane - designing architectures that transform data and unstructured information into trusted, contextualised and reusable knowledge suitable for machine reasoning.

• • Apply semantic modelling, ontology, taxonomy and knowledge representation techniques to enable machine-consumable knowledge assets.
  • Design approaches for transforming data, information and expertise into formalised knowledge structures.
  • Define patterns for knowledge sharing and interoperability across organisational and technology boundaries.
  • Support the adoption of knowledge graph, semantic and reasoning technologies.

• Proven experience designing large-scale, high-reliability real-time technology solutions across cloud, network or telecommunications environments.

• Deep understanding of systems integration, APIs, service-oriented and event-driven architectures.

• Experience balancing commercial outcomes, delivery timelines, resilience, security and operational requirements.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and executive audiences.