Job highlights

- Has proven experience in the telecom industry (or similar) with a deep level of domain knowledge in platform enabling technologies related to . Internal developer experiences and SDLC .
- Experience in architecture and engineering,and strategic leadership roles in large organisations

What You ll Do As a Principal Solution Architect, you ll apply your deep expertise and breadth of experience in solution architecture to:

- Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provide viable solution options and visibility into execution issues.
- Be a hands-on architecture leader, working on cross-entity solutions and complex problems across the Telstra Group.
- Act as a leading subject matter expert to identify, develop, and improve technical and business architecture of solutions for current and future requirements.
- Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture and leverage shared technologies, tools, and processes.
- Engage and influence key technology partners and business stakeholders to develop architecture and engineering guidelines with vendors.
- Provide guidance and make strategic decisions to resolve complex and ambiguous issues and remove blockers for your team.
- Foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling; guide teams in design decisions that minimise future change costs.
- Collaborate with the security team to model a security-first mindset and apply the organisations security strategy.
- Partner with product owners to build a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organisational strategy.




- Demonstrate effective decision-making and responsible actions to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams.
- Build strong commercial capability by modelling commercial thinking, balancing cost and value.
- Build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation for continuous learning and capability-building.
- Contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices, and planning.
- Use a digital product mindset to recognise product opportunities and differentiators.
- Model Telstra s values and facilitate inclusive discussions across teams.
- Maintain a high level of capability in software engineering, including new and emerging technologies.
- Shape the future blueprint of how a domain can evolve across infrastructure, applications, and services.
- Enable stakeholders to make informed decisions that balance business outcomes with technical feasibility.
- Contribute to planning and prioritisation, especially around customer strategy and functional roadmaps.

About You We re looking someone who:

- Has proven experience in the telecom industry (or similar) with a deep level of domain knowledge in platform enabling technologies related to
- Internal developer experiences and SDLC
- Deep experience in system integration, architectural design patterns, API first design, and event driven architecture




- Designing reusable, composable, self service platforms
- Platform architecture and product thinking
- Clear platform value propositions, guardrails, and contracts
- Integration and API architectures
- Cloud and infrastructure
- Non-Functional requirements (Security by design, compliance and regulatory awareness, scalability esilienceavailability, cost models)

- Experience in architecture and engineering, and strategic leadership roles in large organisations.
- Hands-on strategic architecture experience to define mid and long-term architecture designs.
- Knowledge of Tele Management Forum (TMF), Open API, Digital Open Architecture, AI architectures and concepts, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
- Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, graphical models, and frameworks.
- Insight into information management practices, SDLC management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, EA and ITIL frameworks.
- Understanding of various operating models and agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
- Effective leadership skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Cutting-edge consulting mindset to drive digital business strategies.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Expertise in distributed systems, networking, software architecture, and software security concepts.

📌 Principal Solutions Architect - Platforms (Pune)
🏢 Telstra
📍 Pune