Principal Solution Architect

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Job Description
Are you ready to join the Un-carrier movement?

If so, our team is searching for an innovative and strategic Principal Solutions Architect (PSA) You'll lead E2E solution design strategies across teams, and partner with stakeholders across the enterprise. You will help drive the connection of strategy to ever faster product delivery. Align stakeholders and initiatives across the business, promote reusable design, challenge the status quo, frame decisions, negotiate good outcomes and do what it takes to deliver. Play a key role in shaping T-Mobile's architecture standards and their implementation by applying expertise in technical analysis, business architecture, functional, technical and organizational interdependencies.

We pride ourselves on encouraging a culture of innovation, advocating for agile methodologies, and promoting visibility in all we do. Join us and embody the spirit of the 'Un-carrier' to make a tangible impact

Job Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Own solution design for multiple initiatives, works across domain to ensure cohesive solutions, identify gaps in the architecture and solution designs, and assess and define remediation efforts or mitigation options.

• Work toward practical solutions considering all teams, initiatives, and long-term outlook by implementing decisions improving quality, efficiency to achieve revenue, profitability and strategic goals for the organization.

• Connect business strategies to technology domains for delivery, maximising well-defined structure of T-Mobile business processes, products and capabilities.

Innovation and Leadership

• Lead overall end-to-end solution design, ensure quality, consistency, and alignment of designs to TMUS standards and IT strategy.

• Lead large initiatives and apply IT standards to develop solution architecture, drive technical strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions.

• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of how people, processes, and technology interact to perform the fundamental activities of the business in both current and future state, and model these interactions to guide technology strategy to better achieve business outcomes.

• Works cross-functionally to understand the linkage between T-Mobile's business goals, business architecture, and requirements frameworks.

• Compile, deliver, and promote end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide the evolution of infrastructure, products, and services by applying depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related subject areas.

• Mentor team members on standard processes in area of expertise. Grasp and communicate big-picture enterprise-wide issues to team.

Technology and System

• Compile, develop, and deliver architectural guardrails; influence partners and ensure compliance with architectural guardrails within many technology domains that support the needs of products teams to reliably launch products and services.

• Lead technical solutions on cross domain initiatives. Develops innovative solutions and technology strategy. Owns E2E solution design strategy across teams.

• Prepare and maintain design work including architecture diagrams, data models, and API / micro-service architecture while supporting the definition and adoption of common software development processes.

• Write clear documentation describing architecture, design strategies, standards, technical specifications, business benefits, opportunities and threats to craft executive and external materials, including white papers.

Relationship and Project Management

• Collaborate with Senior management to build and align solutions and translate business requirements into technical requirements system analysts and other technical team members drive project design and delivery.

• Apply a broad understanding of the products, systems and technologies across the business portfolio and deep technical ability on integration of these components to deliver a cohesive E2E solution architecture for a given initiative.

Business Architecture

• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business unit in the context of the enterprise.

• Enable consistent definition and composition of scope by domain product, process, experience or capability.

• Identify impacts and competing interests across all domains.

• Apply and uses business modeling methods to ensure results-oriented deliverables that can be maximised and reused as a corporate knowledge resource available to project-level initiatives and executive decision making.

• Review and assess work for coordination, completeness and integration with broader enterprise architecture vision.

• Ensure that documentation is collected, categorized and available to the team for reuse as appropriate in different projects.

Work Experience:

• 7+ yrs validated experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms coupled with strong eye for business and executive presence. (Required)

• 7+ yrs validated experience working in solutions design and enterprise architecture delivering IT solutions. (Required)

• 7+ yrs validated experience in Enterprise applications, PLM (product lifecycle management), middle-tier services, database, storage, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology. (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience may be considered. (Required)

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Washington Pay Range: $164,700 - $222,800

o The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay may be above or below this range.

o At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee's eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance, while Retail and Business Sales roles are eligible for monthly or quarterly sales incentives. And since we are ALL owners, EVERY employee at T-Mobile is eligible for an Annual Stock Grant. For information about T-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out https://careers.t-mobile.com/culture-and-benefits/

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No):Yes

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
Safety Critical Position (Yes/No):No

Base Pay Range: $126,700 - $228,500

Corporate Bonus Target: 20%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee's eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, click here.

At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs To learn about T-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com.

Never stop growing
As part of the T-Mobile team, you know the Un-carrier doesn't have a corporate ladder-it's more like a jungle gym of possibilities We love helping our employees grow in their careers, because it's that shared drive to aim high that drives our business and our culture forward. By applying for this career opportunity, you're living our values while investing in your career growth-and we applaud it. You're unstoppable

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