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Technical Product Owner

Location: London OR Newbury HQ + *Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri

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  Hybrid

At Vodafone UK we believe that through collaboration and connection we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. Our “Office in a Box” home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.

Who We Are

We’re a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.

At Vodafone UK, diversity isn’t just a buzzword, it is core to who we are as a company. We’re proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and are committed to driving inclusion for all; creating a workplace that is fully representative of the communities and customers we serve.

The role is a Cloud Engineering Platform Technical Product Owner in the Vodafone Cloud Engineering team. As a technical product owner your leadership will be pivotal to the successful delivery of our TaaS (Telco-as-a-Service) strategy. This strategy aims to bring our engineers from across the globe together to create a catalogue of reusable engineering capabilities in a completely self-service manner, including a shared cloud engineering platform which hosts multitenant cloud native applications. As a Cloud Engineering Platform Technical Product Owner in the product management team, you are primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by squads delivering our cloud engineering platform using your technical expertise to close the gap between the technical and business stakeholders to guide technological and architecture changes while aligning with the overall product development roadmap and communicating it across agile teams.

We innovate, invent and continuously improve, Vodafone UK Digital works within the heart of our business. Empowering Vodafone’s mission of being a digital-first company is in everything we do.

What you’ll do

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  As a TPO you are the bridge between the cloud engineering platform users and your squad team to direct, inform and prioritize the order of work (roadmap and backlog) to maximize value within constraints of resource, budget, compliance.
• You will contribute to the Cloud Engineering TaaS single vision and roadmap by working with members of the product management team to generate a consistent set of priorities and handle interdependencies between cloud engineering platform feature delivery.
• You will act as technical advisor to stakeholders.
• You will support the squad team in delivering value.
• You will communicate with business stakeholders to set and manage expectations about budget, delivery, and timelines.
• You will act as product owner in agile ceremonies, such as, Programme Increment Planning, Sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand ups.
• You will own the product backlog of the relevant cloud engineering platform squads using Vodafone standard tooling. Backlog is value prioritised against customer and business benefits. Signed off by product owners, product managers, architecture lead and Cloud Platform Chapter manager.
• You will contribute towards Cloud Engineering Platform global roadmap and strategy.
  

Who you are

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  You will have experience in a Technical Product Owner role or similar roles: owning value driven roadmaps and backlogs and leading delivery teams to make them happen.
• You will be familiar with cloud and DevOps technologies practices, processes, and standards. Key components of stack used in the team: AWS, GCP, microservices & serverless infrastructure (Kubernetes, service mesh), API gateways, CICD: Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• You will have experience working in agile teams.
• You will have strong communication and diplomacy skills to persuade and influence colleagues in other departments.
• You will have strong analytical profile with problem-solving skills
• You will be Highly energetic, with a 'can-do' attitude and courageous lateral thinking

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What we offer

We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools, market leading parental leave policies and an innovative Reconnect programme for people who have taken a career break.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.