Job Summary
As a Software Engineering Chapter Lead – Senior Lead, your role is two-fold where you combine your strong expertise in Software Engineering with people leadership. Through your passion for leadership you connect, engage and develop your chapter members so they deliver value aligned to Telstra’s strategic roadmap.Through your initiative work, you act as a catalyst for the enterprise. You bring experience in the Software Engineering technical domain and work with multiple stakeholders to understand business needs, and help shape our Software Engineering strategy, solutions and capability to ensure we continuously deliver value to our customers.Job Description
About Us:
At Telstra, our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. It's a future that won't happen on its own, it has to be delivered — and only Telstra can bring together all the parts to create it. Telstra is on a mission to redesign the way we all connect - with leading-edge technologies and solutions that are changing the world. And this is where YOU come in, by playing your part to building in help our customers connect: faster, better and smarter.
Why Telstra?
Telstra is a well-known Australian company that has been around for over 100 years. We are the leading telecommunications and technology company in Australia and have been operating internationally for over 70 years. We have a strong presence in over 20 countries. In India, we have offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi, as well as an Innovation and Capability Centre in Bangalore. We are focused on using innovation, automation, and technology to solve major technological challenges in areas such as IoT, 5G, AI, and machine learning. Joining Telstra gives you the chance to make a difference in the lives of millions of people and have a rewarding career with flexibility.
Role: Engineering Manager / Chapter Lead
Lead a high-performing Platform Engineering chapter, combining technical expertise with leadership to drive innovation and capability growth.
What You’ll Do
Lead & Inspire: Build a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.
Coach & Develop: Mentor engineers, set clear goals, and enable career growth.
Strategic Leadership: Manage resource allocation, talent pipeline, and workforce planning.
Technical Excellence: Drive secure, scalable, and high-quality software solutions.
Innovation: Champion modern engineering practices and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
Technical Leadership
Design and oversee full-stack architecture and integrations.
Ensure delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Core Skills
15+ years in Software Engineering.
Expertise in Java (17+), Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS/Cloud, CI/CD, Kubernetes.
Strong knowledge of Salesforce integrations, SQL/NoSQL, and container orchestration.
Hands-on experience with secure, fault-tolerant cloud systems.
Nice to Have
AWS serverless (Lambda, Step Functions), API Gateway (Apigee/Nginx), Security best practices.
What Makes You Successful
Passionate leader with strong stakeholder management.
Ability to define capability roadmaps and drive engineering excellence.
What can we offer you?
At Telstra, you can thrive, your way. We foster new ideas, we embrace different ways of working and thinking, and we believe an inclusive and diverse team will lead us to innovate for the future.
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit our Telstra Careers Website: http://tel.st/allrolesflex
Top Skills
What We Do
We believe it’s people who give purpose to our technology. So we’re committed to staying close to our customers and providing them the best experience.
And delivering the best tech.
On the best network.
Because our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive.
We build technology and content solutions that are simple and easy to use, including Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile network.
That’s why we strive to serve and know our customers better than anyone else – offering a choice of not just digital connection, but digital content as well.
And that’s why we have an international presence spanning 15 countries, including China.
In the 21st century, opportunity belongs to connected businesses, governments, communities and individuals.
As Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, Telstra is proud to be helping our customers improve the ways in which they live and work through connection.
