Senior Software Engineering Lead

Telstra is hiring a Senior Software Engineering Lead. Level rates it ; you can apply on Telstra.

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Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

10 Nov 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Software Engineering Lead

Job Summary

The Senior Software Engineering Lead plays a critical role in contributing to high performing teams ensuring the Telstra network delivers a superior network experience for our consumer and business customers. The role combines extensive domain expertise and technical capabilities to influence the team to deliver a great customer experience.

Job Description

What you'll do:

Lead end-to-end solution architecture and design, taking solutions from discovery and requirements through detailed design, build, testing, production deployment and transition.
Define solution architectures, integration patterns, technology options and Key Design Decisions, supported by clear architecture documentation and diagrams.
Design API-first, microservices and event-driven solutions across network and OSS/BSS environments, including ingress and egress APIs, asynchronous messaging and integration contracts.
Work closely with TPOs, Mission Leads, Engineering Leads, delivery squads, Security teams and other stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into practical solution designs.
Facilitate architecture and design reviews, communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs, and resolve technical dependencies across upstream and downstream systems and delivery teams.
Review functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring scalability, reliability, resilience, observability, security, data protection and operational supportability are built into solution designs.
Lead security endorsement and architecture governance activities, working with security architects and risk teams to address authentication, authorisation, encryption, compliance and data protection requirements.
Support engineering teams throughout implementation by reviewing technical designs, interfaces and stories, clarifying architectural intent and ensuring delivery remains aligned with the agreed architecture.
Manage architectural risks, dependencies and technical constraints throughout delivery, including coordinating between engineering, security, delivery and stakeholder groups.
Support production readiness and transition planning, using phased implementation approaches where required to enable safe and effective production delivery.
Lead architecture for legacy transformation, simplification, modernisation and cloud migration, identifying opportunities to move towards sustainable future-state architectures.
Evaluate emerging technologies and alternative design approaches, recommending solutions aligned with strategic architecture direction and long-term platform objectives.

Skills & Experience

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

5+ years' experience working as an End-to-End Solution Designer, Solution Architect or equivalent technical architecture role.
Strong knowledge of fixed-line, wireless and satellite services, including network elements, alarms and alerts.
Demonstrated experience designing solutions across network, OSS and BSS environments.
Strong experience in data and service modelling, API design, integration design and ETL, including defining interfaces and integration contracts between platforms.
Proven experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging and distributed systems.
Experience in legacy transformation and cloud migration, with AWS experience highly desirable.
Strong understanding of security architecture and encryption standards, including authentication, authorisation, compliance and data protection considerations.
Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, particularly reliability, resilience, scalability, observability and operational supportability.
Experience managing architectural dependencies and assessing solution impacts across upstream and downstream systems.
Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into clear, pragmatic and implementable solution architectures.
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural decisions, risks and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working collaboratively with engineering, architecture, security, risk, product and delivery teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
Experience supporting engineering teams through implementation, production readiness and transition to production.
Experience evaluating technology options and identifying opportunities for modernisation, simplification and future-state architecture.
Experience delivering solutions across Agile/Scrum and Waterfall environments.

How we rate this

Senior Software Engineering Lead at Telstra rates 38 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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