Senior Solutions Architect — AI, Cloud & Automation

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

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