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Principal System Engineering

Plano, Texas

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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.

Role Overview:This is a hands-on role that results in the delivery of an application or service. You will be responsible for translating core architecture for business requirements into the final technical solution, which consists of platform, network, software, cloud, etc. This involves functional, performance, and reliability analysis using engineering models and techniques, primarily through software development across the vertical stack.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Elaborate the design and interfaces for specific components, including defining subsystems and their interfaces, allocating responsibilities to subsystems, understanding solution deployment, and communicating requirements for interactions with the solution context.

  • Align development teams to a shared technical direction and partner with those teams in elaborating the solution and its interfaces; validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and establish critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) at the solution level.

  • Create and enable the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, including participating in planning, definition, and high-level design of the system solution and exploring alternatives.

  • Develop the Architectural Runway in support of new business features and capabilities; work with portfolio stakeholders, Solution and Enterprise Architects to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of enablers; participate in project planning, system and solution demos, and retrospective workshops.

  • Understand technical characteristics of and assist with architectural integration of external components, systems, and platforms.

Qualifications:

  • Experience: 8+ years of system engineering experience and architecture. Experience working on large-scale complex systems is essential.

  • Technical Skills:

    • Experience with MicroServices and event-driven design.

    • Domain experience with Ordering and Billing, preferably in Telecom.

    • SaaS integration experience is a plus.

    • Cloud experience is a plus.

    • Telecom experience is a plus.

    • Experience in complex technical transformation.

    • End to end experience with SDLC.

  • Certification:SAFe Architect certificate.

  • Education:Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math; Developer nanodegree; or equivalent experience.

  • Contribution:Expert-level technical professional. Advisor on technical knowledge and AT&T technologies.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

  • This role does not involve supervisory responsibilities.

Our Principal System Engineering, earns between $141,300.00-$237,400.00 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.

#LI-Onsite – Full-time office role

 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?

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Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

USA:TX:Plano / W Plano Pkwy - Adm:3400 W Plano Pkwy

Salary Range:

$141,300.00 - $237,400.00

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.

Job ID R-51319 Date posted 01/29/2025
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