Core NW SaaS User Plane Product Owner

## Join our Team At this time, Ericsson Canada Inc. does not provide immigration assistance/sponsorship now or in the future for this position. 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 approach. * 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 decoupled User Plane functions across distributed cloud/edge environments * 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...