**Job Description:** **This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.** Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it. This expert-level role is responsible for defining technical solutions and providing technical leadership to ensure alignment with business and technical objectives. The role involves working closely with Enterprise Architects and System Engineers, facilitating design decisions, and ensuring the architectural integrity of solutions. **Key Responsibilities:** • Define high-level solutions with customers, stakeholders, and development teams. • Determine primary components and subsystems, analyze technical trade-offs, and identify interfaces and collaborations. • Define higher-level functional and non-functional requirements (NFRs). • Establish and maintain a shared technical and architectural vision. • Align architectural direction with portfolio stakeholders, customers, and development teams. • Develop an incremental implementation strategy and technical foundation for the architectural runway. • Ensure the use of common technology, design practices, and infrastructure. • Facilitate code, component, and pattern reuse. • Influence common modeling, design, and coding practices. **Qualifications:** • Preferred Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math, or equivalent experience. • Typically requires 8-10 years of experience in technical roles. • Extensive knowledge of telecom industry standards, relevant technical architecture, and business processes. • Proven experience in leading teams and defining customer requirements and solutions. **Experience:** • At least 10 years of experience in defining requirements and enhancing business processes. • Experience leading cross-domain solutions in telecom. • Proven ability to lead solution architecture throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with customer business and technical needs. • Deep understanding of industry and technology trends to identify business opportunities. **Technical Skills:** • Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, flow diagrams, business requirements, operations, maintenance, and requirement gathering. Core Competencies: • Ability to create and support POCs and demos and present solutions effectively. • Strong communication skills to articulate end-to-end solutions to various stakeholders. • Ability to design cost-effective solutions that maximize customer value while considering constraints such as budget, timelines, and local market needs. • Provide ongoing feedback to product management for the delivery of best practices. This role is pivotal in ensuring the technical and architectural integrity of solutions, aligning them with business and technical objectives. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in solution architecture, a deep understanding of industry trends, and the ability to lead and influence teams to deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions. Our Lead Solution Architecture, earns between $128,400.00-$215,800.00 USD Annual, Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training. **Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:** · Medical/Dental/Vision coverage. · 401(k) plan · Tuition reimbursement program. · Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays) · Paid Parental Leave. · Paid Caregiver Leave. · Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected. · Adoption Reimbursement. · Disability Benefits (short term and long term) · Life and Accidental Death Insurance. · Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal. · Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) · Extensive employee wellness programs. · Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone. AT&T is leading the way to the future – for customers, businesses and the industry. We're developing new technologies to make it easier for our customers to stay connected to their world. Together, we’ve built a premier integrated communications and entertainment company and an amazing place to work and grow. Team up with industry innovators every time you walk into work, creating the world you always imagined. Ready to #transformdigital with us? **Apply now!** **\#ConsumerTechnologyeXperience** **Weekly Hours:** 40 **Time Type:** Regular **Location:** USA:GA:Alpharetta / 500 North Point Pkwy - Adm (Owned):500 North Point Pkwy **Salary Range:** $128,400.00 - $215,800.00 It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. 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