Product Owner (VOIS)
Who we are
VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation.
As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.
We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
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About this Role
What you’ll do
- Conduct structured interviews and workshops with business stakeholders, data engineers and other technical teams to understand requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear and testable business requirements documents, epics, user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Own, refine and prioritise the product backlog according to business value, product direction, dependencies and technical feasibility.
- Develop and maintain roadmaps and release plans for data initiatives and demands.
- Map current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps and assess the potential impact of proposed features.
- Define data quality requirements, validation criteria and test cases for data deliverables.
- Review completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and provide product sign-off.
- Participate in Agile and Scrum activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Work collaboratively with onshore and offshore teams throughout day-to-day product delivery.
- Act as a communication bridge between data engineers and non-technical stakeholders, translating information accurately in both directions.
- Maintain current documentation covering requirements, decisions, processes and data definitions.
- Present product requirements, decisions and findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ask constructive questions and challenge technical or business assumptions when further clarification is needed.
- Build trust across the product team and influence decisions through collaboration rather than formal authority.
Who you are
- You have approximately four years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience with Data Engineering is a must
- V.good English
- You hold a qualification in computer science, engineering or a related discipline, or possess an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
- You have strong SQL knowledge, including joins, common table expressions, window functions and aggregations, and can read and validate query logic.
- You understand relational data modelling and can interpret entity-relationship diagrams.
- You have working knowledge of ETL and ELT concepts, pipeline or DAG logic, and end-to-end data flows.
- You have experience gathering, documenting and managing technical and non-technical requirements.
- You can write clear user stories, acceptance criteria and supporting requirements documentation.
- You understand Agile software development and have experience participating in Scrum ceremonies.
- You have strong research, analytical, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- You are committed to user-centred product design and development.
- You can make informed product decisions at squad level and prioritise requirements according to value and feasibility.
- You are comfortable communicating with data engineers and asking detailed questions without requiring extensive technical support.
- You can present complex requirements clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- You maintain accurate documentation and ensure that requirements, decisions and data definitions remain current.
Not a Perfect Fit?
What’s in it for you
- The opportunity to influence data products from initial concept through to delivery and product sign-off.
- Direct collaboration with data engineers, business stakeholders and multidisciplinary Agile teams.
- Experience shaping product roadmaps, release plans and prioritisation decisions for data initiatives.
- The opportunity to contribute to data quality, governance and validation standards.
- Exposure to both the technical and commercial aspects of data product development.
- A collaborative environment where you can influence outcomes through evidence, communication and trusted stakeholder relationships
What skills you will learn
- Advanced product backlog management and prioritisation for data engineering initiatives.
- Practical application of SQL, relational data models and end-to-end data pipeline concepts.
- Data quality validation, test-case definition and acceptance management.
- Roadmap and release planning for technical data products.
- Facilitation of requirements workshops involving technical and non-technical participants.
- Translation of complex business needs into actionable technical requirements.
- Stronger stakeholder influencing, technical questioning and cross-functional communication skills.
- Practical exposure to data governance and data catalogue practices
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