Principal Solution Architect

Permanent

29 Oct 2026 11:59pm

Principal Solution Architect

Job Summary

In this role you are the technical authority responsible for shaping the strategic vision, architectural direction, and target state solution designs for enterprise-wide platform capabilities. Operating within the Platform Software Engineering (PSE) patch, you will define and evolve the architecture of strategic engineering platforms that enable product teams to build, integrate, test, deploy, and operate solutions at scale. This includes driving architectural outcomes across developer experience, integration, cloud platforms, engineering tooling, software delivery lifecycle (SDLC), test automation, observability, security, and reusable platform services.

About Us

At Telstra, our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. It is a future that will not happen on its own. It has to be delivered, and Telstra brings together the people, platforms and technology needed to create it.

As Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company, we are transforming how millions of customers connect through world-class digital experiences, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled capabilities and next-generation technologies.

Our Technology team is at the heart of this transformation, creating scalable, secure and reusable platforms that power customer, product, sales, service and operational experiences across Telstra.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Solution Architect - Platform Architecture to help shape the next generation of enterprise platforms and digital capabilities that will enable Telstra's future growth and innovation.

The Opportunity

You will provide architectural leadership for platform capabilities such as Micro-Frontends (MFEs), Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) orchestration, Workflow-as-a-Service (WFLaaS), TMF Open APIs, cloud-native services, integration patterns, and engineering accelerators. Working closely with Group Owners, Chapter Type Leads, Product Owners, and Engineering Leads, you will ensure platform investments align with the Telstra Reference Architecture Model (TRAM), deliver operational resilience, and accelerate engineering productivity and delivery outcomes across the enterprise.

Accountabilities

Strategic Platform Vision & Architectural Leadership

Drive 1-to-3 Year Platform Roadmaps: Formulate and maintain the target solution architecture for platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise business outcomes and technology direction.

Modular Platform Design: Define architectural blueprints for reusable enterprise services, including workflow engines (WFLaaS, TOE), API gateways, and component marketplaces.

Reference Architecture Alignment: Enforce compliance with the Telstra Reference Architecture Model (TRAM), TM Forum (TMF) Open API standards, and enterprise design patterns.

End-to-End Solution Architecture & Technical Governance

Complex Solution Delivery: Lead end-to-end architecture across multi-domain initiatives involving MFE/BFF front-end layers, microservices backends, and cloud

Non-Functional & Security Architecture: Ensure solutions embed high availability, disaster recovery, zero-trust security guardrails, and privacy-by-design from inception.

Developer Experience & Operational Excellence Uplift

Developer Experience (DQX) Enablement: Collaborate with engineering leads to architect internal developer portal capabilities, CI/CD integration patterns, and test data management (1TDM).

Observability Standardisation: Architect comprehensive telemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging frameworks across platform components using Splunk and New Relic.

Technical Debt & Legacy Modernisation: Identify architectural bottlenecks, drive cloud cutovers (Aztech/Cloud Gateway), and formulate decommissioning strategies for legacy middleware.

Must Have

Senior Experience in software engineering and solution architecture, with at least 3–5 years in a Lead or Principal Solution Architect capacity within a large enterprise or telecommunications ecosystem.

Proven experience delivering complex solutions involving multiple systems, teams, platforms and business domains.

Strong understanding of architecture principles, distributed systems and modern software engineering practices.

Experience influencing architecture decisions across large and complex organisations.

Demonstrated track record of architecting large-scale, enterprise platform components, API ecosystems, or developer platform initiatives.

Strong experience designing enterprise platforms and reusable business capabilities.

Experience applying capability-based architecture and domain-driven design principles.

Strong understanding of platform operating models and platform lifecycle management

Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale cloud-native architectures on AWS, including application modernization, integration, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering practices

Why Telstra?

At Telstra, you can thrive your way.

We foster innovation, experimentation, continuous learning and flexible ways of working. We believe diverse perspectives create better solutions and help us build a more connected future.

Join a team where you will have the opportunity to solve complex problems at scale, shape strategic technology platforms and influence the digital experiences of millions of customers.

Build the future with us.