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Lead System Engineering

AT&T
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Aug 2025
💰 $215,800/yr($128,400/yr$215,800/yr)

About the role

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 help shape the future of communications and technology that connect the world. We value innovators who seek to explore the unknown and challenge the status quo. Bring your bold ideas and fearless spirit to redefine connectivity and transform how people share stories and experiences. At AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future—you’ll build it.

What you’ll do:

  • Elaborate the design and interfaces for specific components including: Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to subsystems, understand solution deployment, and communicate requirements for interactions with solution context;

  • Align development teams to a shared technical direction and partners with those teams in elaborating the Solution and its interfaces;

  • Validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives; Establish critical NFRs at the solution level, participate in the definition of others.

  • Create and enable the Continuous Delivery Pipeline including: Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the system solution and explore 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, retrospective workshops;

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

What you’ll need:

  • This career step requires senior level experience. Hands-on function that ultimately results in the delivery of an application or service.

  • Responsible for translating the core architecture for business requirements into the final technical solution (consisting of platform, network, software, cloud, etc.) through functional, performance, and reliability analysis using engineering models and techniques, primarily through software development throughout the vertical stack.

  • Defines designs.

  • Provides technical enablement for application components and subsystems for an Application(s).

  • Drives important design decisions for development team.

What you’ll bring:

Senior level technical expertise. Deep technical knowledge and subject matter expert on ATT technologies.

Education:

Preferred Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math; Developer nanodegree; or equivalent experience.

Experience:

Typically requires 5-8 years experience. Technical Career Pathway (TCP) role.

Supervisory:

No.

Our Lead System Engineering,  earns between $143,800-$215,800.00 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-

Ready to join our team? Apply today

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Dallas, Texas

Salary Range:

$128,400.00 - $215,800.00

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship

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