Senior Technology Solutions Specialist

Job Summary

Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

What We Offer

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

• Lead and define API & Microservices solution architecture in collaboration with business partners, end users, business analysts and technology teams.
• Ensure all the architecture designs meet key functional, non-functional and security requirements.
• Owning and managing technical and solution risks working to reduce and mitigate at earliest opportunity.
• Create Software Architecture Document, High Level and Low-Level Design documents including Non-functional requirements for the project.
• Involve and contribute to project impact assessment and cost estimation process.
• Understand the requirements, current state architecture of the enterprise and create a roadmap for future enhancements accordingly.
• Ensuring that all parties understand the solution and elaborate on the solution design where required to achieve this goal.
• Actively participate in design walkthroughs, maintain solution architecture documentation up to date.
• Good time management and ability to efficiently manage multiple projects at the same time.

About You

• Proven experience in defining and delivering solution architecture for enterprise-grade applications, ensuring scalability, performance, resilience, and security.
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture patterns, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Hands-on experience with API-first design using OpenAPI (Swagger) for RESTful services.
• Full-stack development experience highly desirable using:
• Frontend frameworks: Angular and/or React
• Backend technologies: Spring Boot or C++ microservices
• Strong understanding of event-driven, event-based, and message-based architectures, including distributed transaction patterns (e.g., Saga, eventual consistency).
• Practical experience with event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and messaging systems like ActiveMQ, including producer/consumer design and stream processing.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases, with preference for Couchbase or similar distributed data platforms.
• Exposure to big data ecosystems is highly desirable.
• Advanced (preferred) experience in high-performance and low-latency systems, including:
• High-speed packet capture using C++, Boost, and DPDK
• Hot path optimization, concurrency, and memory management techniques
• Proven ability to design and implement secure, highly available systems, including authentication, authorization, and data protection best practices.
• Experience working in multi-vendor, distributed, and cross-cultural teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), and observability tooling (monitoring, logging, tracing).

Desirable Qualities

• Demonstrated technology subject matter expertise.
• Able to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Excellent time management skills to meet the required project timeframes
• Able to manage and prioritise workload to optimise business results
• Ability to work in a matrix organisation, taking direction from both line and project management.
• Self-starter, able to get up to speed quickly and work independently.
• 8-10 + years of experience working in software development 
• Permanent resident or citizenship

If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you!

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).
When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 
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