Product Owner

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  GT Group Data Centres
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  28 Mar 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Your day to day:

A Product Owner in the Software Infrastructure department at VOIS is responsible for managing the entire software product development lifecycle for one or more projects.

This role involves executing various aspects of product ownership in a complex international environment, coordinating product and platform design, delivery, and managing solutions that support the demands of the Vodafone group, local markets, and partner markets.

The Product Owner ensures the implementation of software solutions within the agreed timeline and specified project costs. As part of an agile team, the Product Owner is responsible for implementing agile practices within the team to facilitate implementation speed and productivity.

This role also supports Manager and Senior Manager roles in evolving clients' IT products in line with Vodafone's global architecture, collecting and clarifying requirements, defining product strategy, feasibility analysis, and implementation planning

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business:

  • Building the technology strategy and integrating it into the product-level strategy and vision.
  • Collaborating with teams managing Vodafone products to define their roadmaps.
  • Producing and delivering the technology plan.
  • Collaborating with product managers to agree on product features.
  • Working with Product Owners, Product Managers, Solution Designers, and Architects to develop detailed plans and projects.
  • Coordinating supplier selection and subsequent interaction (technical requirements, compliance, roadmaps, performance management, etc.).
  • Keeping up-to-date with relevant technological trends and supplier development directions to ensure clients benefit from the latest technological advances and the best experience.

With these skills you are a great candidate:

  • Degree in IT&C or similar.
  • 3-5 years of experience in a mobile telecommunications company or a global technology company.
  • Good understanding of middleware concepts and technologies.
  • Good knowledge and experience in Single Sign-On technologies (Open ID, SAML, OAuth, etc.).
  • Good knowledge of web technologies and microservices, mobile networks and 4G/LTE and 5G technologies, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
  • Experience as a Product Owner using a scalable agile methodology.
  • Skills in coordinating end-to-end solution design and virtual team coordination.

  • Experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions (SaaS/IaaS/PaaS), e-commerce platforms, digital channels, mobile/fixed telecommunications services, and mobile applications.
  • Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, familiarity with agile process development methods and tools.
  • Project management skills.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken).
  • Exceptional track record of delivering projects on time, within budget, and according to specifications.
  • Experience in managing multiple and complex projects throughout the entire project lifecycle and development.
  • Extensive experience in managing projects in international matrix environments.
  • Solid experience in IT project delivery management with specific experience in infrastructure implementations.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to discuss with both clients and internal teams for successful delivery of results.

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

  • Hybrid way of working
  • Medical and dental services
  • Life and hospitalization insurance
  • Dedicated employee phone subscription
  • Take control of your benefits and choose any of the below options: MEAL TICKETS/ PRIVATE PENSION/ VACATION VOUCHERS/ CULTURAL VOUCHERS within the budget.
  • Special discounts for gyms and retailers
  • Annual Company Bonus
  • Loyalty Programme
  • Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
  • You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
  • Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company
  • We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 days off.
  • Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.