Senior Product Owner

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

The Senior Product Owner is responsible for the end-to-end ownership of product development and lifecycle management, ensuring that the product vision, roadmap, and delivery are fully aligned with the strategic objectives of Deutsche Telekom AG or its affiliated companies. The role acts as a key bridge between business stakeholders, product management, architecture, and delivery teams. The Senior PO leads complex solution designs, contributes to the Product Vision (in cooperation with the Product Manager) and Architecture Vision (in cooperation with Architects), and ensures that the delivered product creates maximum business value and customer satisfaction. This position drives innovation, quality, and scalability while promoting product excellence and cross-functional collaboration.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Ensure product solutions are feasible, scalable, and architecturally aligned, enabling successful delivery during the Solution Design phase.
• Shape a unified Product and Architecture Vision that directs long-term product evolution and strategic alignment. Deliver a strategic product roadmap that secures stakeholder commitment, budget alignment, and organizational prioritization.
• Transform business needs into clear product objectives that guide value-driven development.
• Provide a clearly defined product scope that enables Agile teams to deliver customer-centric outcomes.
• Guarantee timely and high-value product delivery through informed trade-off decisions.
• Optimize product performance by leveraging data insights that drive measurable business improvement.
• Secure a consistent end-to-end customer experience by managing cross-team dependencies and solution coherence.
• Maximize business value by steering prioritization and orchestrating delivery streams.
• Strengthen stakeholder trust and alignment by representing the product at a senior level across the organization.
• Managing strategically aligned projects

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Have education in Information technologies - Bachelor
• Have education in Economics - Bachelor
• Have minimum 4years experience at ICT System Engineering
• or Have minimum 4years experience at ICT Business Analyst
• or Have minimum 4years experience at ICT Delivery Service management
• or Have minimum 4years experience at Project Management
• Hold Certification of Product owner
• Have IT Technical Skills:
• Product ownership - advanced
• Technology consulting  - Advanced 
• Technical understanding - Advanced
• SW development Stakeholder Management - Expert
• Solution design - Advanced
• Data Models - Basic
• Cloud understanding - Basic
• Security requirements - Advanced
• Solution Architecture - Basic
• Technical understanding - Advanced
• Have Soft skills:
• Communication skill - Expert
• Stakeholder Management - Advanced
• Strategic thinking - Advanced
• Decision making - Expert
• Problem solving - Advanced
• Leadership - Advanced
• Project Management - Advanced
• Risk management - Advanced
• Have Finance Skills:
• Financial acumen - Advanced
• Have Other skills:
• Agile environment - Advanced
• Business Know how - Advanced
• Market Know how - Advanced
• Solution Competence - Advanced
• Speak English - Upper intermediate (B2)
• Speak German - Intermediate (B1)

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2000 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.