Available Q1 2026Paris regionRemote

The bridge betweenengineering, product and data.

Lead Data, Product Owner and agile coach: I support organisations from framing to production on their data, product and AI initiatives.

Samy Zaouadi, Lead Data and Product Owner

Expertise

Product Management

Vision, roadmap and delivery. I align business needs, value and execution all the way to production.

Agile & Coaching

Framing the agile approach, running the ceremonies and growing team autonomy at programme scale.

Data & AI

Governance, actionable dashboards and data-driven steering. Machine Learning, use-case identification, conversational agents and knowledge bases.

Certifications
  • TOEIC990/990, bilingual English2022
  • PSMProfessional Scrum MasterScrum.org · 2023
  • PSPOProfessional Scrum Product OwnerScrum.org · 2025

Selected work

12M
end customers impacted
5
high-impact projects
4K+
advisors equipped
6+
years of experience
Case study · CA-TS

Lead Data on a cross-entity programme

Steering data across a strategic programme: end-to-end architecture, AI / Marketing coordination between Group entities, product framing and executive-committee presentations at Crédit Agricole Technologies et Services.

Data ArchitectureProduct ManagementConversational AICross-team coordinationMachine LearningKnowledge base

Experience

Three roles, one trajectory: from agile delivery to data leadership.

  1. Data Product Division Lead · Confidential project

    Since Apr. 2026ParisCurrent

    Interface between the three tribes of the Data Product Division, the Data Chapter and the tribe running the project, on a cross-entity programme spanning Data, AI, Marketing and Machine Learning.

    • Guardian of Data and Marketing consistency with the rest of the company initiatives
    • Coordinating stakeholders: UX, Dev, Architects, PO / Lead PO, Data, AI and Marketing
    • Framing the data architecture: from data preparation (Cloudera) to ML model inference (AWS SageMaker)
    • Building the short, mid and long-term Data Marketing vision
    • Leading Data Engineer, Data Analyst and Data Scientist resources: staffing, planning, reporting
    • Presenting to executive committees and challenging needs with leaders and POs
    Cross-entity programmeData ArchitectureClouderaAWS SageMakerMachine LearningMarketing

  2. Product Owner, Digital Marketing · Conseil Augmenté

    Since Feb. 2025ParisCurrent

    Digital products for bank advisors: owning and maximising their value (UX, ROI, TTM) across the whole lifecycle, from build to run.

    • Gathering and prioritising user needs, owning the product backlog
    • Building and championing the mid to long-term product roadmap
    • Steering and analysing product usage
    • Building strategic Digital, AI and Marketing cases around the advisor experience
    • Managing allocated resources against product value: budget, staffing
    Product OwnershipRoadmapBacklogDigital MarketingProduct Analytics

  3. Scrum Master · Conseil Augmenté

    Jan. 2024 – Feb. 2025Paris

    Guiding the multidisciplinary Conseil Augmenté team towards autonomy, alongside the CA-TS agile coaches. The same product I later owned as Product Owner, first taken on from the delivery side.

    • Putting the Scrum mindset into practice and training the team on it
    • Guiding the team towards self-organisation and continuous improvement
    • Proactively surfacing impediments and external interference
    • Synchronising developer work to meet sprint commitments
    • Supporting the PO on backlog, value-based prioritisation and framing a Data topic
    ScrumFacilitationAgile CoachingTTM / Velocity

  4. Before 2024The technical foundations

    Three years of hands-on IT at Crédit Agricole Technologies et Services, partly during my ISEP engineering apprenticeship.

    • Forex Developer, Java / PHPSept. 2022 – Dec. 2023

      Java REST APIs (Spring Boot) and fullstack PHP (Symfony), release preparation and application support.

    • IS Mapping / Enterprise ArchitectAug. 2020 – Aug. 2022

      IS mapping and the ARIS repository, JavaScript automation, and a Java app auditing the security of development libraries.

    Java / Spring BootPHP / SymfonyREST APIsClean code / TDDGitLab CI/CDDockerEnterprise architecture

An agile approach, driven by impact

Frame

Understand the business stake, define goals and success metrics.

Prototype

Ship a first increment fast to test the value.

Industrialise

Make it reliable, automated and production-ready for the long run.

Hand over

Document it and make the teams autonomous.

Data & Analytics
SQLPythonPower BIdbtBigQuery
Product & Agile
JiraConfluenceScrumKanbanOKR
AI & Machine Learning
scikit-learnLLM / RAGMLOps
Soft skills
FacilitationPlain-speakingFramingCross-team leadership
05 · Contact

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