Product Management

GB Alao

Contract Product Owner Cloud-Native Delivery & FinTech Specialist

Location: London, UK (Hybrid) Contact: **********@*****.*** Professional Summary

Delivery-focused Contract Product Owner with over 15 years of experience delivering complex technical workstreams within Financial Services and Enterprise SaaS environments. Expert in bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technically strong engineering teams to deliver cloud-native and API-led solutions. Proven track record of managing backlogs, mitigating delivery risks, and executing within pre-defined programme scopes in highly regulated markets (FinTech, Payments, FX). Available for immediate start to support programme delivery in fast-paced, technical environments.

Core Competencies

● Programme Workstream Delivery: Managing the end-to-end delivery of defined technical scopes, ensuring alignment with wider programme goals.

● Cloud-Native & Technical PO: Strong understanding of Microservices, API architecture, and RAG/AI integration within AWS/Azure environments.

● Stakeholder & Client Management: Acting as the primary link between business clients and engineering, effectively translating technical constraints into business value.

● Regulated Environments: Experience delivering compliant solutions for FinTech, Identity Verification (IDV), and Credit Derivatives.

● Agile Governance: Expert in Jira/Confluence for backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, and risk management.

Relevant Professional Experience

Contract Product Owner / Manager Prognox Labs London, UK 2023 – Present Focus: Enterprise Cloud Platform Delivery & Technical Workstream Management

● Workstream Delivery: Responsible for the delivery of the FirstEscrow enterprise payments platform, managing the requirements gathering and execution lifecycle within a regulated scope.

● Technical Prioritisation: Managed the technical roadmap for a complex cloud-native data solution (Peppasync), working closely with platform engineers to define API architectures and RAG integration strategies.

● Stakeholder Management: acted as the key liaison between the technical team and business stakeholders, managing expectations and ensuring the delivery met pre-defined success metrics.

● Agile Delivery: Led daily stand-ups and sprint planning for a cross-functional technical team (ML engineers, developers), ensuring pragmatic delivery and continuous improvement.

● Risk & Scope Management: Validated assumptions early to mitigate delivery risk, ensuring the product roadmap progressed from concept to pilot within a strict 9-month timeline.

Senior Product Owner Monty Finance London, UK 2021 – 2022 Focus: FinTech Programme Delivery & Microservices Migration

● Regulated Programme Delivery: Led the delivery of a FinTech P2P platform and payment gateway, ensuring strict adherence to financial services regulations.

● Cloud-Native Transformation: Managed the technical transition from legacy systems to a microservices architecture, improving platform scalability and deployment velocity for the engineering team.

● Cross-Functional Leadership: Managed a large delivery team of 30 (Engineers, QA, Designers), prioritizing the backlog to ensure alignment with the wider business strategy.

● Third-Party Integration: Managed technical integrations with external third-party providers (Accounting/CRM platforms), handling complex API dependencies and client requirements.

● Delivery Velocity: Acted as the daily owner for engineering blockers, ensuring high-velocity delivery and increasing customer satisfaction by 35% through platform optimization.

Senior Product Owner AirtelTV 2019 – 2021

Focus: High-Volume Platform Delivery & Data Infrastructure

● Platform Delivery: Managed the delivery of a high-volume streaming platform, scaling infrastructure to support 1 million active users.

● Agile Implementation: Established rigorous Agile workflows across traditional divisions, improving delivery efficiency and reducing time-to-market by 40%.

● Data-Driven Prioritisation: Used advanced analytics and user feedback loops to prioritise the backlog, resulting in a 25% increase in engagement. Education & Certifications

● Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) Scrum Alliance

● Product Management Certification (PMC)™ Product School

● BSc Electrical Engineering University of Lagos Technical Skills

● Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.

● Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps.

● Technical Domain: Microservices, Restful APIs, AWS, Azure, SQL, Python.

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