Principal Solution Architect
Principal Solution Architect in Telstra's Platform Software Engineering team (Bengaluru), setting the strategic architecture and target-state designs for enterprise platforms — MFE/BFF, APIs, workflow services — on AWS, while driving developer experience, observability, security and legacy modernisation across the SDLC.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
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 ecosyste
- 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
Full description
Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
29 Oct 2026 11:59pm
Job Title
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.
Job Description
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.
AccountabilitiesStrategic 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.