Description Join our team and what we'll accomplish together As TELUS continues to advance its Wireless Core into a more automated, cloud-native, and resilient setting, this role will be the strategic compass for our network architecture.

You’ll partner with senior technical leaders and cross-functional teams to guide massive modernization initiatives, most notably our complex multi-vendor migrations, including the transition to a cloud-native modern 5G Core. Beyond immediate migrations, you will help lay the technological groundwork for the future of our network, introducing AI-driven automation, advanced telemetry, and intent-based architecture to move TELUS toward highly autonomous core operations.

What You'll Do

- Lead the end-to-end architecture strategy for the modernization of our Wireless Core, guiding the transition from legacy bare-metal appliances and proprietary VMs to agile, cloud-native platforms
- Drive the technical execution of complex multi-vendor migration initiatives, specifically the transition from monolithic, siloed infrastructure to the new 5G Core and modernizing our IoT platforms
- Define target-state architecture principles that support resilience, high capacity, interoperability, and operational efficiency across our six engineering pillars (including reliability, security, scalability, and automation)
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor to the Director and engineering managers, resolving complex architectural dependencies and ensuring alignment with long-term technological roadmaps
- Provide technical direction on integrating Machine Learning, AI, and test automation into engineering workflows to drastically reduce manual effort and optimize network performance
- Establish advanced telemetry and semantic data requirements that enable improved network visibility, automated anomaly detection, and closed-loop optimization




- Help define the future 'autonomous core' capabilities by exploring intent-based abstractions and machine-to-machine orchestration models to streamline operations
- Collaborate across telecom cloud (NFVI), IT, and RAN domains to ensure end-to-end alignment and seamless solution integration

Qualifications What you bring

- 10+ years experience in telecom architecture, wireless core engineering, and large-scale multi-vendor network transformations
- Deep, hands-on understanding of 4G EPC and 5G SA core call flows, protocol stacks (HTTP/2, PFCP, Diameter, GTP) and low level configuration of any network generation component, including IMS/Voice, and network slicing technologies
- Proven track record of designing and supporting cloud-native, distributed, and containerized telecom environments
- Experience executing complex core swaps, node migrations, and system acceptance in a Tier-1 operator environment
- Strong background in applying data science, AI/ML, predictive analytics, or automation frameworks to telecommunications environments
- Ability to influence senior executive stakeholders and collaborate effectively across technical execution teams without formal reporting lines
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts and financial trade-offs (TCO) into clear business recommendations
- Knowledge of 3GPP standards, open-source maturity, and global telecom evolution roadmaps
- Bachelor/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Data Science or related field

Great-to-haves

- Experience with telecom telemetry, deep performance analytics, and building automated data pipelines
- Familiarity with generative AI or LLM-based tools for engineering optimization and operational use cases
- Hands-on experience architecting across on-premise, public cloud (AWS), and hybrid infrastructure, with a deep understanding of the trade-offs between cloud specific managed services and cloud agnostice, containerized architectures (Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)

Location: Any major Canadian city

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