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Our mission is to ensure that the right technologies are identified, selected, and deployed in the most efficient and effective way to support Telefónica’s strategic vision and business objectives.\nIn this role based in Madrid (Spain), you will lead Mobile Packet Core Technology and Planning across the Telefónica Group within the GCTIO organization. Your primary responsibility will be to drive the definition, selection, implementation, and evolution of mobile packet core technologies in close coordination with Telefónica’s operating businesses and key stakeholders.\nThe role requires strong leadership, strategic vision, and deep technical expertise to steer the evolution of the mobile core towards 6G.\nYou will be responsible for maximizing the value of core network capabilities to support Telefónica’s automation and monetization objectives, leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), intent-based operations, and advanced network programmability.\nYou will play a key role in shaping the future network architecture and ensuring a consistent technology strategy across the Group, fostering innovation, operational efficiency, and new business opportunities\nHow will you contribute to this role?\nDefine the Packet Core strategic vision to support current and future product requirements, deliver operational efficiencies and automation objectives\nDrive the evolution towards 6G architectures and standards.\nLead technology selection and packet core implementation in the group in line with our multi vendor strategy. To achieve this objective you will be require to coordinate our vision with our operating businesses, finance, procurement and other departments such as Access, IT, Security, procurement and finance\nDrive vendor roadmaps and capabilities\nIntroduce AI in packet core architecture to enhance automation and open new monetization opportunities\nCollaborate with cloud and automation team to ensure life cycle management based on intents\nCollaborate with product teams to ensure that packet core can deliver service and monetization roadmap\nDrive industry and standards to ensure that Telefonica vision is endorsed in line with defined strategy\nBuild efficiencies projects to meet budget targets and telefonica staretgic plan\nWhat skills and key capabilities we are looking for?\n5 years + of experience in a similar role\nStrong experience and knowledge in mobile packet core technology and architecture\nLeadership capabilities to drive projects and teams towards objectives\nTeam work in multi cultural environment\nExperience in AI and Agentic AI in order to build and execute projects to meet AI for network and network for AI capabilities within packet core domain\nExperience in participating and contributing in the telco standards and industry ecosystem\nKnowledge and experience in cloud native infrastructures\nFluent in Spanish and English\nWhich other aspect will be considered?\nMaster in computer science or telecom engineering.\nExperience in team management\nAutomation driven in improving day to day way of working\nExperience in multi cultural environment\nWhats advantage would you get working for us? \nTansformational Projects. 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