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Paweł Olejarz

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Senior Technical Product Owner translating complex financial regulation into secure delivery.

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a senior technical product ownership role in financial services where I can translate regulatory complexity into clear backlogs and lead agile delivery—favoring transparency, strong governance, and secure, market-leading outcomes.

I’m a Senior Technical Product Owner and Delivery Leader with 25+ years of IT experience, including 15+ years in financial services across retail, corporate, and investment banking. I own complex, highly technical financial products—from Global Cash Pools to payment processing streams and Open Banking APIs.

I’m at my best translating intricate business and regulatory requirements into clear technical backlogs and user stories. I’ve driven PSD2, SCA, and Open Banking API implementations, bridging engineering, legal, and compliance to turn regulatory intent into dependable outcomes.

I lead cross-functional engineering delivery using SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, delivering secure, market-leading solutions. From release train governance across multiple agile teams to cloud migration and data encryption upgrades, I focus on transparency, dependency/risk management, and practical execution that advances real business value.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Expert Product Owner/Project Manager

Current

Nordea

May 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Owned end-to-end development for Nordea’s Global Cash Pools liquidity management platform. Coordinated delivery across engineering, legal, and compliance and set standardized project initiation and planning workflows.

Product Roadmap Product Ownership Liquidity Management Backlog Management Regulatory Translation Cross Functional Collaboration Governance Project Planning

Technical Project Manager

Point72

Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 (11 months)

Led technical teams responsible for post-trade capture processing systems supporting treasury, risk, and operations. Introduced Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) trading and served as Scrum Master for two engineering teams.

Technical Delivery Trade Processing Treasury Systems Risk Operations Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)Scrum Master Agile Delivery Dashboards SDLC Hackathon Automation

Delivery Manager / RTE

FISERV

Mar 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Owned payment processing architecture initiatives, including validating ISO 8583 during onboarding of new corporate payment schemes. Led a cloud migration to PaaS/SaaS and managed high-stakes PSD2 and data encryption delivery across multiple Agile teams.

ISO 8583 Encryption PSD2 Release Train Engineering Cross Team Dependencies Capacity Planning Risk Management

Expert Product Owner

Nordea

Nov 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 4 months)

Owned enterprise prioritized Book of Work (BoW) and strategic roadmaps for liquidity and corporate banking systems. Delivered PSD2 requirements, launched Open Banking APIs with Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), and coordinated distributed teams within SAFe.

Product Ownership Roadmapping Backlog Management Book Of Work (BoW)PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)SAFe Program Increment (PI) Planning

Project Manager / Transformation Lead

Standard Chartered

May 2019 - Oct 2019 (5 months)

Led a team of BAs and PMs delivering liquidity reporting systems for APAC banking entities. Managed complex project delivery and transformation efforts.

Project Management Team Leadership Liquidity Reporting Systems Stakeholder Management Business Analysis

Project & Program Manager

HSBC

Jun 2018 - Apr 2019 (10 months)

Managed retail banking and wealth management program delivery and deployed new front office/client-facing products for North America. Oversaw risk, scope, and stakeholders for Premier Mortgage and Credit Card products and maintained delivery health reporting.

Program & Project Management Retail Banking Wealth Management Front Office Product Delivery Premier Mortgage Credit Card Products

Senior Project Manager

Credit Suisse

May 2015 - Apr 2018 (2 years 11 months)

Managed cash management and cash product projects including FX, money markets (MM), and options. Served as joint Business & IT lead for cash management systems across global regions and prioritized yearly Books of Work with business and regulatory requests.

Cash Management Options Book Of Work (BoW) Prioritization feasibility studies

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Deutsche Bank

Feb 2011 - Apr 2015 (4 years 2 months)

Designed and built communications systems for payment investigations and managed BAU changes for core banking systems. Supported product and process development activities across payments and core banking.

Business Analysis Process Development

Project Management

Hewlett-Packard

Feb 1997 - Jun 2008 (11 years 4 months)

Managed QA processes, test infrastructure administration, and functional automation/testing of IT systems. Contributed to quality and testing operations across IT environments.

QA Processes Test Infrastructure Test Automation Testing