Senior Solution Architect - Network

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions.

As a Senior Network Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal pre-sales role partnering with enterprise customers, sales teams, and technical specialists to design innovative networking and security solutions. Leveraging deep technical expertise and strong commercial acumen, you will lead customer engagements, workshops, and solution development activities that drive revenue growth, enhance customer outcomes, and position Optus as a trusted technology partner. This role combines technical leadership, solution design, stakeholder management, and strategic consulting to deliver complex network and security solutions across major enterprise customers.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop enterprise network and security solutions that align with customer business objectives, technical requirements, and commercial outcomes.
• Lead customer workshops, technical presentations, and discovery sessions to uncover requirements and translate them into compelling solution designs.
• Partner with sales teams to shape opportunities, develop customer value propositions, and contribute to winning account strategies and business cases.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, delivery teams, vendors, and technology partners to ensure seamless solution design, governance, and handover for implementation.
• Maintain deep expertise in networking, network security, and emerging technologies while providing technical guidance and enablement across the broader business.
• Contribute to innovation by identifying new solution opportunities, supporting product development initiatives, and creating tools, templates, and best practices that improve team productivity.
• Develop training material and content around secure networking. Enable and training general presales, and provide SME support.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in network solution architecture, technical design, or pre-sales consulting within telecommunications, managed services, or enterprise ICT environments.
• Deep expertise across enterprise networking and network security technologies, supported by industry certifications such as Cisco (CCNP/CCIE), HPE Aruba, Palo Alto, Zscaler, CISSP, CISM, or similar.
• Strong customer-facing consulting skills with the ability to engage, influence, and build credibility with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience leading technical workshops, developing solution architectures, and translating complex customer requirements into commercially viable outcomes.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills, with the ability to create solution overviews, business cases, and executive-level presentations.
• A collaborative and strategic mindset with experience navigating matrix organisations, managing competing priorities, and supporting complex sales engagements from opportunity to delivery.

The good stuff….

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.

• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.

• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym and on-site childcare centre.

• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you.

• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.

• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.

• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).

• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 - in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email [email protected] or call 1800 309 170.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity