The Product Owner for UPF will play a critical role in driving our engineers in the development and delivery of our 3gpp mobile core solutions. Product Owner for UPF will be a proven engineering leader who will lead by taking ownership of the UPF product and working with all the stake holders (customers, product management and developers primarily) to drive maximum impact in the Mobile Core organization.  You will blend your positive attitude with the magnitude of Microsoft to empower our worldwide customers by delivering highly available carrier grade telco services. 

  

This position will require someone who can operate across all issues and at all levels of the organization and drive to one collaborative Microsoft team.  The position requires strong leadership, communication and organizational skills, and, an extremely strong technical background. The position requires understanding issues, creative problem solving, evolving the product architecture and capabilities leading to high customer satisfaction. 

Responsibilities

• Building high performance products 
• Planning and tracking customer and strategic features 

• Actively participate in development processes to review, document, explain and influence 
• Devise and Lead activities to improve product quality, features and processes 
• Interact with internal and external customers to understand the requirements and influence the strategies to address issues 

Qualifications

• Strong experience with engineering concepts with a proven demonstrable level of impact 

• Strong SW development background with coding, testing and automation skills 
• Experience with requirement definitions and follow through  
• Deep understanding of carrier grade telco product design to meet SLAs. A minimum of 15 years of telco product development experience is desired. 
• Experience with all aspects of the software development process 
• Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Experience with data plane products is required 
• Experience with cloud native distributed architecture, Kubernetes environment, PAAS components, Azure services is a plus 
• Experience with Mobile core technologies, including 3gpp, EPC Virtualization, M2M and LTE is a plus 
• BS in Computer Science or related field required. MS in Computer Science or a related field is strongly desired 

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
 
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.