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Johan Amsellem

Squad Leader/Product Owner Technical & Functional

€728/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Johan

With over twenty years of experience in consulting firms and banks, I have acquired triple expertise in IT technologies, banking/finance, and project/team management. Based on these three pillars, I act as a link between the company's various IT and business stakeholders to ensure that, together, we successfully deliver projects pragmatically and efficiently, whether they are modest or more ambitious in size.
  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Orange Bank
    Squad Leader, Retail Banking IT Project Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    December 2023 - July 2025 (1 year and 7 months)
    Montreuil, France
    “Retail Banking” Squad in charge of the IT applications for Customer Relationship Management, Back Office & Payments:

    - Leadership of a DevOps squad of 11 resources: 4 BAs, 4 developers, 2 Support, and a Test Automation Lead. Responsible for agile ceremonies (Jira, Confluence).
    - Development of the quarterly SAFe roadmap (Product Increment) with business and other leaders.
    - Responsible for the relationship with a key partner (Wordline Equens): management of the quarterly steering committee, KPI and KYP (Know Your Partner) monitoring.
    - Project management for the redesign of the Spanish and French websites.
    - Management of an application decommissioning scope (50+ applications): framing document, communication plan, impact analysis, change management, operational protocol (Equens, Inwebo, Modirum, Moneythor, GooglePay / ApplePay, Isoft, Interop, OneGate etc).

    Business Environment: Retail Banking, Neobank, Payments, Retail Banking IT, Customer Relationship, Front Office, Back Office, Accounting, Scrum Safe, Change Management, and Decommissioning.
    Technical Environment: Java Spring, Sonar, DevOps, Jenkins, BitBucket, AWS Cloud, S3 Scality, AirFlow, Jira, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint.
    IT Project Management Change Management Decommissioning Payment Systems Agile Methodology (SAFe)
  • Société Générale – GLBA,
    IT Big Data Project Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    May 2022 - February 2023 (9 months)
    Courbevoie, France
    “Interlagos” Project: As part of the modernization of finance and risk systems, building the data asset for structured financing for the GLBA business line data lake and its interconnection with the group's central warehouse.
    - Development of the transition plan by business value, risks, and impact levels, and associated budget forecast (Opex / Capex).
    - Development of the multi-year roadmap with business architects and other project managers.
    - Management of the BA & IT DevOps team (4 in Paris, 4 in Bangalore), and steering processes (Scrum, Jira).
    - Preparation of the communication plan and coordination with source systems (Loan IQ, CovTrack...).
    - Facilitation of inter-team meetings & operational committees with business and IT managers.

    Tina Project (There Is No Alternative): Populating the data lake with Customer ESG data & creating reports.
    - Framing of the needs expression, drafting the “Solution Draft Proposal” with the architects.
    - Management of the schedule and the BA (2 resources) & IT (3 resources) teams.
    - Facilitation of inter-application follow-up meetings and operational committees.

    Business Environment: Structured Financing, VAR, TE, IFRS9, Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Accounting, Scrum Safe, Change Management, ESG, Budget Monitoring, Opex, Capex.
    Technical Environment: Spark As A Service on Cloud Azure, Scala, Nifi, Java Spring, DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, S3 Scality, AirFlow, Excel, PowerPoint, Data Management, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence.
    Agile Project Management Big Data Structured Financing Change Management Banking
  • BNP Paribas
    Program Director & Big Data Project Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    November 2021 - April 2022 (5 months)
    Paris, France
    • Director of the Augmented Data Hub program for IT and business teams (6 streams in Paris, Brussels).

    ◦ Implementation of the steering methodology and tools (Scrum - SAFe on TFS Azure).
    ◦ Management of the transition: identification of key stakeholders and their profiles, assessment of existing processes and tools, definition of the target state and change plan, preparation of the communication plan.
    ◦ Management and facilitation of steering committees for senior IT and Data, HR, Finance management.
    ◦ Facilitation of inter-team program meetings, progress monitoring, risk and dependency management.
    ◦ Construction of the resource plan and budget plan for 2 projects in group tools (Clarity).
    • Management of the application modernization stream around the Data Hub platform:
    ◦ Definition of the target state and deliverables with the architecture and security teams.
    ◦ Management of the schedule and teams (France & Belgium), progress monitoring.
    ◦ Facilitation of inter-application follow-up meetings and “Agile” ceremonies.
    Program Management Agile Methodology (SAFe) Big Data Change Management Asset Management

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Education

  • Lean Six Sigma: Green Belt Training
    2014
    Lean Six Sigma: Formation Green belt.
  • DEA in Modeling and Processing of Data and Knowledge
    University of Paris IX Dauphine
    1995
    Bases de données avancées et Intelligence Artificielle

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner
    Scrum.org
    2020
    Scrum Master Product Owner Scrum
  • ITIL v3: Information Technology Infrastructure Library
    .
    2009
    Process Optimization Project Management IT Infrastructure User Support

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