Core NW SaaS User Plane Product Owner
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About the Role
Ericsson is seeking a Core NW SaaS User Plane Product Owner to drive the technical strategy and global delivery of core network services on public cloud. The role requires deep expertise in Core Network User Plane (UPF), cloud architecture, and Agile/DevOps leadership.
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Responsibilities
- Drive the implementation and global delivery of the technical strategy and roadmap for Ericsson On Demand and Core Network Services
- Drive the architecture and technical direction for all sub services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency at hyperscaler
- Lead the adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, SRE, and cloud native development methodologies
- Foster an inclusive, innovative, and results oriented engineering culture emphasizing accountability and cross functional collaboration
- Collaborate with leadership team to define engineering ways of working and deliverables
- Ensure successful, timely, and high quality delivery of all relevant sub services from incubation to commercial deployments
- Provide sub services expertise through SRE Prime roles towards the SRE organization
- Establish and monitor metrics for engineering productivity, quality, and operational health
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of experience managing, mentoring, and scaling technical engineering teams
- Deep understanding of Core Network Services, Core Network User Plane, telecom infrastructure
- Proven experience defining product requirements or technical strategies utilizing Public Cloud Architecture / Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong background leading teams in an Agile environment with deep familiarity in SRE practices, CI/CD pipelines
- Deep technical knowledge of User Plane (UPF) architecture within 4G/5G Core Networks
- Strong technical acumen; ability to converse fluently with enterprise architects and software engineers
- High adaptability and flexibility to pivot strategies
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About this opportunity
- Ericsson On Demand: Shaping the next telecommunication paradigm.
- We are transforming the mobile telecommunications market by bringing solutions forward with true as a Service technologies and commercial models built on the public cloud.
- Our partnership with Google Cloud is breaking new ground, enabling Ericsson Core Network Services—starting with the 5G DMC—to be deployed at hyperscaler scale.
- Launched earlier in 2025, Ericsson On Demand is rapidly moving from incubation to commercial readiness and is now preparing for trials to meet market demands.
What you will do
- Drive the implementation and global delivery of the technical strategy and roadmap in alignment with the global Ericsson On Demand and Core Network Services vision specifically focusing on the public cloud and as a Service model for the sub services.
- In collaboration with Technology Evolution, drive the architecture and technical direction for all sub services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency at hyperscaler.
- Lead the adoption of modern engineering practices, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud native development methodologies across the relevant sub services and collaboratively with the European engineering head to ensure an aligned
- Foster an inclusive, innovative, and results oriented engineering culture that emphasizes accountability and cross functional collaboration.
- Collaborate with the leadership team to define the engineering ways of working and deliverables in accordance with the business, technology, security and compliance requirements and ensure alignment to those processes and ways of working.
- Ensure the successful, timely, and high quality delivery (including functional, non functional and security/compliance) of all relevant sub services, from initial incubation/trials to commercial deployments to scaling up to support a growing customer base.
- Provide sub services expertise through the SRE Prime roles in your team towards the SRE organization, enabling close collaboration and blameless culture of inter working and DevOps culture
- Establish and monitor metrics for engineering productivity, quality, and operational health.
The skills you bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience managing, mentoring, and scaling technical engineering teams, with a track record of driving cross functional collaboration.
- Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of Core Network Services, Core Network User Plane, telecom infrastructure, or on demand service models.
- Cloud Architecture: Proven experience defining product requirements or technical strategies utilizing Public Cloud Architecture / Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud native architectures.
- Agile & Devops Leadership: Strong background leading teams in an Agile environment with deep familiarity in SRE practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
- Core Network User Plane Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of the User Plane (UPF) architecture within 4G/5G Core Networks. This includes strong familiarity with 3GPP standards, high performance packet processing technologies (such as DPDK, SR IOV, or eBPF), traffic steering, and the deployment of
- Strong technical acumen; ability to converse fluently with enterprise architects and software engineers regarding complex sub services.
- High adaptability and flexibility to pivot strategies in support of evolving business needs.
- Deep expertise in public cloud infrastructure, as a Service models, and DevOps principles.
- Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and as a Service business models
- Exceptional ability to translate complex business challenges into clear technical strategies and execution plans
Nice to have
- Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.
- Proven experience as an Agile Product Owner, specifically in a cloud native environment or with cloud infrastructure and tooling.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
- Ability and desire to communicate transparently and optimally with stakeholders and leaders on the state of our flow and to raise and address constraints.
- Clear understanding and ability to take business risk based decisions on prioritizations between new features and non functional enablers.
- Experience in leading teams to deliver high quality, customer centric products, and managing teams across multiple locations
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across regional lines (e.g., aligning with European engineering heads).
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range for Ottawa: CAD 129,500 CAD 170,100
- Short Term Variable Compensation Plan: opportunity for an annual bonus based on performance.
- Excellent health benefits including choice of 3 medical and dental plan options.
- Group Retirement & Savings Program with automatic 2% company contribution and 50% match on RRSP up to 8%.
- Minimum 18 days of accrued vacation, at least 3 personal days, minimum 10 holidays, 1 volunteer day, and sick days.
- Up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
- Additional benefits: financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, wellness account, and recognition programs.
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