Product Technology COE Lead Principal

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Key Responsibilities (What you’ll do)

Lead the Technology Delivery team within TD&V, setting clear direction and priorities.

• Own and contribute to financial investment planning, budgeting, and forecasting (e.g. FY planning, OPEX/CAPEX alignment) for TD&V deliverables.

• Apply commercial acumen to ensure resourcing priorities are achieved within allocated budget targets.

• Ensure strong governance across initiatives, including scope clarity, dependency management, and risk mitigation.

• Partner with delivery leads across GN&T to ensure initiatives are execution‑ready and aligned to enterprise priorities.

• Work closely with internal stakeholders across Wireless Technology Roadmaps and Strategy, TD&V and Finance.

• Represent Wireless Engineering in senior governance forums and cross‑company planning activities.

• Manage a high‑performing, inclusive team with strong collaboration and psychological safety.

• Drive clarity of roles, responsibilities, and operating model within the CoE.

• Coach and guide your team to foster strong technical ownership and accountability.

• Champion clear communication, pragmatic decision‑making, and disciplined execution.

Required Experience & Capabilities (What you bring)

• Extensive experience in telecommunications, wireless networks, or large‑scale technology environments.

• Proven experience shaping and delivering complex, multi‑year technology programs.

• Demonstrated ability to lead senior technical teams and influence without formal authority.

• Comfortable operating at executive forums.

• Strong stakeholder management across engineering, strategy and finance.

• Experience with investment planning, business cases, and financial governance.

• Ability to balance technical ambition with delivery realism and commercial constraints.

• Strong problem‑solving skills in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.

• Deep understanding of Agile/SAFe delivery models.

• Strong coaching, mentoring, and talent‑development capability.

• Clear, concise communicator with the ability to simplify complex technical topics.

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to ensuring Telstra’s wireless technology ambitions are technically credible, strategically aligned and operationally executable. It directly shapes how ideas become funded initiatives and how strategy turns into deployed network capability.