Available Q1 2027Paris / Remote

The bridge betweenengineering, product and data.

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

Samy Zaouadi, Lead Data and Product Owner

Selected work

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

Lead Data on a cross-entity programme

Steering CA-TS's Data contribution across a strategic programme: Data / AI / Marketing coordination between entities, leading the data delivery teams, facilitation, product framing, end-to-end architecture and presenting cases to senior committees.

Data ArchitectureProduct ManagementConversational agentCross-team coordinationMachine LearningKnowledge baseData PreparationGovernanceFacilitation

Experience

A precise trajectory: from back-end development to business leadership, by way of agile, data and product.

  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.

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    • Guardian of Data and Marketing consistency with the company's other 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

    Feb. 2025 – Apr. 2026Paris

    Digital products for bank advisors: owning and maximising their value (UX, ROI, TTM) across the whole lifecycle, from build to run. PO of Trajectoires Agri, built for advisors serving farming customers, and of the client meeting preparation tool.

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    • 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 Conseil Augmenté squad towards autonomy, alongside the CA-TS agile coaches. Products similar to those I later owned as Product Owner, first taken on from the delivery side.

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    • Putting the Scrum mindset into practice and training the squad on it
    • Guiding the squad 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, across two functional domains: currency trading operations and information system urbanisation.

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

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

    • IS Mapping / Enterprise ArchitectureAug. 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/CDFOREXIS urbanisation

An agile approach serving customers and data

End customersUseful, adopted and measured products
Business & AgileNeeds, value-based prioritisation, delivery
Data & AIData architecture, Machine Learning, customer insight
Technical foundationDevelopment, IS architecture, APIs, CI/CD
Agile Product Management
Product BacklogRoadmapProduct valueScrumKanbanTTM / TTRBudget managementExecutive committeesJira
Tech & IT
REST APIsEvent-driven architectureJava Spring BootSQL & NoSQL databasesGitLab CI/CDTest automation (XRAY, Cucumber)
Data & AI
Data ManagementData PreparationKnowledge ManagementCustomer journey trackingSQLPythonLLM / RAGMLOps
Soft skills
Cross-team leadershipFacilitationExplaining tech to businessFraming
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