AT&T

Lead Solution Architecture

AT&T$141K — $211K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years in systems engineering or technical business management.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Proficient in problem-solving and analytical thinking.
  • Familiar with cloud computing systems and platforms.
  • Experience with SQL, data mapping, and API protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end solutions across various capabilities and applications.
  • Utilize enterprise repositories to assess system dependencies and impacts.
  • Engage diverse stakeholders to align technology solutions with business needs.
  • Facilitate discussions between strategic and implementation teams using capability models.
  • Manage technical debt and ensure compliance with architectural standards.
  • Leverage AI to enhance solution efficiency and integrate outputs into workflows.
  • Lead initiatives to map customer journeys into technical designs and solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • Tuition reimbursement program for continuous learning.
  • Generous Paid Time Off policy, including 23 days vacation yearly.
  • Paid Parental and Caregiver Leave to support family needs.
  • Adoption Reimbursement for those expanding their families.
  • Disability benefits for short-term and long-term situations.
  • Life insurance and additional insurance options available.
  • Access to comprehensive employee wellness programs.
  • Generous discounts on AT&T products and services.
Full 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.

AT&T will not hire any applicants for this position who require employer sponsorship now or in the future. 

What you’ll do:

A Solution Architect in AT&T’s Business Architecture practice plays a high‑impact, cross‑functional role, blending technical system design, business capability alignment, and increasingly AI‑enabled analysis. Their day spans discovery, design, governance, stakeholder communication, and ongoing architectural oversight—ensuring that technology solutions support AT&T’s strategic and operational goals.

  • Perform end‑to‑end solution design across capabilities, applications, and organizational boundaries to ensure cohesive, high‑quality, scalable architecture.
  • Use enterprise repositories (e.g., Sparx, capability maps, knowledge platforms) to understand dependencies and assess upstream/downstream impact.
  • Collaboration Across Stakeholders, engage business, product, technology, and operational teams to ensure clear understanding of capability needs, system impacts, and business priorities. This includes close alignment with Business Architects, Product teams, and System Architects.
  • Facilitate cross‑functional discussions to connect strategic outcomes with implementation teams, often using capability models and value‑stream insights.
  • Ensure solutions align to the Target Architecture, contributing to long‑term sustainability and reduced implementation cost.
  • Identify and manage technical debt and ensure architectural decisions are compliant with standards, patterns, and domain roadmaps.
    Leverage AI to Improve Efficiency by using AI‑driven analysis to accelerate solutioning, reduce repetitive tasks, and identify impacted product teams early. Daily activities increasingly include validating AI results and integrating them into solution workflows.
  • Work with Enterprise Architecture to ensure solutions map cleanly to business capabilities, stakeholder needs, and value flows across domains. Examples include capability modeling, reliability considerations, and stakeholder mapping.
  • Provide insight for prioritization and strategic planning based on capability health, performance gaps, or ecosystem impacts.
  • Lead customer journey mapping initiatives and translate journeys into system interactions, capabilities, and solution designs
  • Embed resiliency, observability, and performance engineering into all solution designs
  • Ensure systems meet high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability requirements
  • Support Agile and DevOps teams in implementing architecture solutions
  • Provide technical leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment to architecture vision

What you’ll bring:

  • Requires 5 – 8 years’ experience in systems engineering or technical business management role
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and analytical abilities.
  • Experience with cloud computing.
  • Experience in SQL, Data mapping, API, SFTP, HTTP(s) protocols
  • Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
  • Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in an Agile environment.
  • Proven ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively in a fast-paced setting.
  • Expertise in business capability modeling, value stream mapping, and process modeling
  • Strong working knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban)
  • Experience mapping and optimizing end-to-end customer journeys and aligning technology solutions to customer experience outcomes
  • Ability to connect business capabilities and system interactions to customer journeys (e.g., journey mapping frameworks, E2EUX concepts)
  • Experience evaluating and implementing emerging technologies (e.g., AI/GenAI, automation, digital platforms)
  • Preferred degrees in Engineering, Information Systems or related technical fields.

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-

Ready to join our team? Apply today.

Our Lead Solution Architecture jobs earn between $141,300.00 - $211,900.00 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

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

USA:GA:Atlanta / 1057 Lenox Park Blvd Ne - Adm:1057 Lenox Park Blvd Ne

Salary Range:

$141,300.00 - $211,900.00

About AT&T

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203,000 employees
Market Cap
$131.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$5.1 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+0.6%
Revenue
$171.7 billion
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