Job Summary
Job DescriptionThe OpportunityThis is an opportunity to take a leading technical role within a complex and highly governed Defence delivery environment.
You will help strengthen engineering quality and technical decision-making across the Defence project, ensuring designs and technical deliverables are appropriately reviewed, assured and progressed through governance.
Working across multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders, you will help resolve complex technical challenges, manage dependencies and risks, reduce avoidable rework, and support the successful delivery of contracted project outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and ownership across the Defence project delivery lifecycle.
- Lead engineering assurance, technical design reviews and governance to maintain the quality and consistency of engineering deliverables.
- Provide technical direction and specialist guidance across network and infrastructure engineering activities.
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, customer and delivery stakeholders to progress technical dependencies and agreed outcomes.
- Identify and manage technical risks, issues, dependencies and resource constraints, escalating where appropriate to protect delivery milestones.
- Drive timely technical decisions and establish clear technical accountability across complex delivery activities.
- Reduce rework and delivery friction through effective engineering governance, review discipline and early identification of technical issues.
- Communicate complex technical information clearly across engineering, delivery and Defence customer governance forums.
- Operate autonomously while ensuring technical activities align with Telstra security, privacy, safety and delivery governance requirements.
About You
You are an experienced Technical Lead who is comfortable operating in complex, security-sensitive and highly governed environments.
You combine deep technical capability with strong delivery judgement and are confident influencing technical outcomes across multidisciplinary teams without relying on formal people leadership.
You are comfortable engaging directly with Defence customer stakeholders, challenging technical assumptions where appropriate, and creating clarity when working through complex engineering issues and competing delivery priorities.
To be successful in the role, you will bring:- Significant technical leadership experience within complex Defence or regulated environments.
- Proven experience delivering complex network and/or infrastructure engineering outcomes.
- Strong network and infrastructure engineering capability, supported by practical delivery governance experience.
- Demonstrated experience in design assurance, technical reviews and engineering governance.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging effectively with Defence customer stakeholders.
- Experience managing technical dependencies, risks and issues across multidisciplinary delivery environments.
- The ability to influence technical outcomes and provide direction without formal people-management authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical matters to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- The ability to work autonomously with broad direction and take accountability for technical outcomes.
- Juniper Session Smart Routing (SSR) certification.
- A current/transferable NV2 security clearance as a minimum requirement.
- Ability to comply with Telstra security, privacy, safety and delivery governance requirements.
Skills Required
- Significant technical leadership experience in complex Defence or regulated environments
- Experience delivering complex network and/or infrastructure engineering outcomes
- Strong network and infrastructure engineering capability
- Experience with design assurance, technical reviews, and engineering governance
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with Defence customer stakeholders
- Experience managing technical dependencies, risks, and issues across multidisciplinary delivery environments
- Ability to influence technical outcomes and provide direction without formal people-management authority
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work autonomously and take accountability for technical outcomes
- Juniper Session Smart Routing (SSR) certification
- Current or transferable NV2 security clearance
- Ability to comply with Telstra security, privacy, safety, and delivery governance requirements
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.
