Sr Architect, Technical

Company: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Location: Overland Park
Posted on: May 1, 2025

Job Description:

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The Sr Technical Architect is responsible for Retail MDM design and implementation. While this position includes hands-on development work, it also focuses a majority of the time on technical leadership, which includes code reviews, coaching engineers, documenting and evolving coding standards and best practices, performing data modeling, participating in advanced troubleshooting of production and pre-production systems, and authoring frameworks and utilities to improve the efficiency of the engineering staff. They own creation and documentation of roadmaps and active particiption and collaborative engagement on architectural, technological and infrastructural discussions for both currrent ecosystem and short term future strategy.

Job Responsibilities:

Technology & System:

• Owns design for given capability and Retail MDM infrastructure.
• Maintains Retail MDM frameworks, standards and libraries.
• Supports product lifecycle from business discussions through test/deploy as it relates to requirement refinement and data designs business needs.
• Creates scalable, extensible designs that are easy to implement and perform and follows architecture standards for IT system design and enable success for IT teams
• Proactively identifies, addresses and escalates (if needed) when solutions are overlycomplex or will compromise implementation.
  
  Strategy:
  
  • Follows established Architecture Standards and best practices and provides guidance on changing standards
  • Serves as a contributing architect on strategic projects representing and driving architectural design decisions for T-Mobile systems. At times may be driving versus contributing only.
    
    Project Management:
    
    • Works closely with the business during ideation and vision stages of new projects - helping define solution options to drive business case development prior to project funding and start-up.
    • Provides support to Senior Architects on assessments and work-effort estimates for the business and routinely as part of the project intake process for our architecture team.
      
      Relationship and People Management:
      
      • Communicates solution designs clearly in multiple modes of communication - diagrams, documents, verbally.
        
        Education:
        
        • Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent experience. (Required)
          
          Work Experience:
          
          • 4-7 of p rogressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms coupled with strong business acumen and executive presence.
          • 4-7 years of e xperience working in solutions design and enterprise architecture delivering IT solutions.
          • 4-7 years of experience in Enterprise applications, PLM, middle-tier services, database, storage, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology.
            
            Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
            
            • Knowledge and experience with enterprise architecture, MDM / EMM concepts, Ivanti, Jamf, Intune MDM knowledge and experience (Required)
            • Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated success in advising matrixed resources and delivering software, with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools, across multiple teams.
            • Agile Project Management Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools.
            • Collaboration Experience with successive elaboration and ability to develop Initiatives, Features and User Stories that the DevOps teams can apply.
            • Product Management Experience implementing large and complex business/technology conversions as Product Manager or lead technology role.
            • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences including executives and non-technical leaders. (Required)
              
              Licenses and Certifications:
              
              • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Product Owner Certification (CSPO) (Preferred)
                
                --- At least 18 years of age
                --- Legally authorized to work in the United States
                
                Travel:
                Travel Required (Yes/No):Yes
                
                DOT Regulated:
                DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
                Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No
                
                Base Pay Range: $102,700 - $185,300
                
                Corporate Bonus Target: 15%
                
                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 .
                
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