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Mahamdou Balde

Product Owner / Business Analyst –Agile Scrum

€620/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Mahamdou

Senior Product Owner (PO) / Business Analyst (BA) Technico-Functional – Agile / SAFe / Digital

With solid experience in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), I support companies in defining, prioritizing, and implementing high-value digital solutions.

Specializing in gathering and analyzing business needs, writing functional specifications and User Stories, as well as managing the product backlog and sprint planning, I ensure coordination between business and IT teams up to UAT validation.

Thanks to my technico-functional profile, I bridge the gap between business needs and technical constraints (API, SQL, Swagger, Postman), thus guaranteeing the quality, consistency, and value of the delivered product.

Sectors of intervention: Energy · Telecommunications · Banking · Insurance.

Certifications: SAFe® 6 AI-Empowered PO/PM · CSPO® · Microsoft Excel Specialist.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Courbevoie (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Malakoff Humanis
    Senior Business Analyst (Operational PO)
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    May 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Paris, France
    Malakoff Humanis – Strategic NEW RCU (Unique Client Reference) Program May 2025 – Present

    • Contribution to the redesign of the Unique Client Reference within a strategic program in an AWS Cloud environment.
    • Analysis of business needs and writing of technico-functional user stories (business rules, acceptance criteria).
    • Contribution to the structuring and prioritization of the backlog in collaboration with the Product Owner.
    • Functional specification of the reference's REST APIs (contracts, business rules, Swagger/OpenAPI).
    • Transverse coordination between business and technical teams (developers, Ops).
    • Management of functional testing and support for UAT phases to secure deployments.
    • Active participation in Scrum rituals (refinements, sprint planning, daily, reviews).

    Environment: AWS, REST API, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Jira, Confluence, Agile Scrum.
    Functional Testing Swagger Sprint Planning SQL API
  • RTE - DSI - Ile de France
    Senior Product Owner
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    July 2022 - April 2025 (2 years and 9 months)
    Courbevoie, France
    RTE Paris - Modernization project for offer transmission systems, CUOs, and energy programs

    Critical business application for transmitting offers and energy programs (real-time, European context).
    This application allows the electricity transmission system operator to receive all adjustment offers (specific and standard), technical constraints for using offers (CUO), and call programs (PA).
    It is used in real-time by adjustment players (AA) and scheduling managers (RP), in France and Europe.
    This is a highly critical system, at the heart of energy management and the balancing of the electrical grid.

    • Standardization of time to facilitate data integration at the European level.
    • Functional testing post-standardization to validate data integration.
    • Application migration from an obsolete application to this new business solution.
    • Gathering, analysis, and translation of business needs for Specific Offers and Technical Constraints through framing workshops.
    • Writing, validation, and prioritization of User Stories (for CUOs).
    • Functional testing of User Stories with SQL, ORACLE, API, Postman, Swagger, SOAP, Xray, Cucumber, Jira, Confluence.
    • Analysis of application logs and Microservices via Putty, Postman, and Notepad++.
    • Management of customer data volume and application performance.
    • Non-regression testing, load testing, and performance testing to secure deliveries.
    • Sharing the product vision with the development team.
    • Collection of user feedback (Players, Business, and Stakeholders).
    • Monitoring and validation of Pre-Production / Production deployments (MEPP / MEP) of product versions.
    • Driving strategic thinking for future versions.
    • Updating the Implementation Guide (Documentation).
    Product Owner User Story Jira/Confluence SQL Functional Specifications
  • TotalEnergies
    Business Analyst – Functional and technical redesign of Pricing & Sourcing applications
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    February 2020 - June 2022 (2 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    TotalEnergies – IT Department / Energy Management – Electricity & Gas.
    Reporting to the Energy Management department, as part of the complete redesign of business applications dedicated to Pricing and Sourcing management.

    • Gathering business needs from users (trading, procurement) through framing workshops.
    • Formalizing existing business processes and new needs for the purpose of functional optimization.

    • Mapping of existing processes using Talend for applications and identifying business impacts related to migration to Java.
    • Data mapping (Source → Target).
    • Writing detailed functional specifications and User Stories adapted to the Java environment.
    • Prioritizing features based on business value and technical constraints.
    • Maintaining and optimizing the Product Backlog in a continuous improvement approach.
    • Monitoring design and development to ensure alignment with business needs.
    • Functional testing of User Stories with SQL, Oracle, API, Postman, Swagger, SOAP, MariaDB, Jira, Confluence.
    • Interface between business and technical teams to ensure common understanding of requirements and solutions.
    • Risk management and anticipation of impacts related to technological migration.
    • Change management support for end-users, training, and post-migration feedback collection.
    • Creation and tracking of indicators, schedules, and tasks using Excel.
    • Planning and monitoring of Pre-Production / Production deployments (MEPP / MEP) for different iterations.
    • Updating functional and technical documentation throughout the project.

    ↗️ Technical environment: Systems: Windows, Linux. ETL & Migration: Talend, Java. Databases: SQL, Oracle, SQL Developer, MariaDB. API & Functional Tests: Postman, FileZilla, Putty, mRemonte, Swagger, SOAP, Xray, Cucumber.
    Product Owner Confluence Jira/Confluence User Story Maintenance in Operational Condition

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Education

  • Master 2 IRM (Image, Networks, Multimedia)
    Institut Galilée (Université Paris XIII)
    2007
  • Master 1 STIRM (Signal, Telecommunication, Image, Networks, Multimedia)
    Institut Galilée (Université Paris XIII)
    2007

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
    XEBIA
    2018
  • Certified Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Excel Expert (Office 2019)
    (TOSA)
    2025

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