Wireless Network Engineering Senior Engineer

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Who We Are

Were an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. Were 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
Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop mobile phone plan paid for)

What Youll Do

• Lead the planning design standardisation integration and optimisation of Telstras wireless networks to deliver strong customer operational and commercial outcomes at the Telstra Innovation Centre.
• Translate customer functional and business requirements into clear engineering solutions including trade-offs risks and downstream impacts.
• Act as a senior technical authority to identify and resolve complex engineering risks constraints and performance issues across wireless domains (e.g.4G/5G RAN satellite fronthaul/backhaul).
• Maintain technical currency in wireless theory tools systems and emerging technologies to shape future network direction.
• Uplift engineering practice and maturity across mission and component teams by defining and embedding standards tools and ways of working at the Telstra Innovation Centre.
• Contribute domain expertise to design forums and implementation strategies; support root-cause problem solving across cross-functional teams.
• Assess vendor technologies and contribute to architecture-aligned recommendations roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Apply commercial judgement to balance cost performance and risk and help prioritise backlogs and initiatives for maximum strategic value.
• Coach mentor and develop engineers; support scalable training and onboarding materials and role-model inclusive outcome-focused behaviors.

About You

• Experienced Wireless Network Engineer with strong handson expertise across RAN (4G/5G) satellite and/or transmission domains.
• Deep technical capability in radio access engineering using data and sound engineering judgement to make and articulate decisions.
• Comfortable working in highcompliance environments including EME compliance and NATAaligned assessment and measurement.
• Proven experience evaluating vendor technologies features and hardware introductions.
• Recognised technical leader who can influence without authority collaborate across functions and work autonomously on complex initiatives.
• Strong communicator with structured problemsolving critical thinking and decisionmaking skills.
• Motivated to uplift engineering practices standards tools and capability within Centre of Excellence (CoE) environments.
• Able to balance handson delivery with strategic input into roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Holds tertiary qualifications in Engineering Telecommunications or equivalent industry experience.

Your Impact in the Wireless Engineering TDV CoE

• Act as a key implementer of engineering practice standards uplifting tools ways of working and technical quality across mission teams.
• Contribute deep domain expertise to technical discussions design forums and implementation strategies across crossfunctional teams.
• Serve as a trusted CoE domain expert supporting collaborative problemsolving and rootcause analysis of emerging network technologies.
• Apply outofthebox thinking to deliver innovative engineering outcomes.
• Shape and influence the engineering cohort within the Telstra Innovation Centre helping develop future engineering leaders.

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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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