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.

Essential Experience

What We're Looking For

- 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.
- Solid stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and executive audiences.

📌 Senior Solutions Architect (Melbourne)
🏢 Telstra
📍 Melbourne