Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Telstra’s cloud, network, telecommunications, and autonomous operations capabilities. Define architecture patterns, technology strategies, service models, semantic relationships, and knowledge graphs. Guide delivery teams, ensure security and enterprise alignment, influence technical and executive stakeholders, govern architecture decisions, and drive modernization, standardization, and continuous improvement.
Employment TypePermanentClosing Date29 Oct 2026 11:59pmJob TitleSenior 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 DescriptionWhat 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.
What 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.
Telstra Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
400 George St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Telstra Waverley, New South Wales, AUS Office
Waverley, Australia
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