Sara Diez Castellanos

– Developed and implemented product vision and strategy, including user app, data platform, B2B app, API channel and internal applications. – Transforming a single-product business into a multi-product business (policy types) – Developing an in-house core system for managing policy subscriptions and payments – Developing an internal tool for managing claims – Multiple acquisition channels: B2C App, B2B tools, API channel – Implementation of a data/analytics system as a foundation for experimentation and traceability – Led product experimentation and data analysis initiatives across the organization, focus on growth and claims experience. – Guided team in developing and executing successful product roadmap. – Played a key role in designing and implementing company Data platform and AI initiatives.

– Directed cross-company data product strategy, steering new data platform evolution (Governance, Ingestion, Processing, Quality, Exploitation). – Product Manager for new data collection and data quality product. – Product Manager for other data products, from Discovery to Market Adoption (Data Platform, AI/ML products). – Coordinated Data teams enterprise-wide: Data Engineering, Data Science, Research. – Executed launch of new Business Intelligence platform (AWS QuickSight). – Collaborated with UX and Design team for SaaS modules' creation and enhancement.

– Coordinated projects and products within A3Media big data portfolio. – Managed product backlog for new A3Media data platform on AWS. – Analyzed data using AWS services (S3, Athena, Redshift) and conducted reporting/BI. – Oversaw ongoing data requirements for Digital Marketing, Publicity, Ecommerce. – Initiated and led inception of AtresPlayer recommendation engine.

– Led high-performance Scrum teams covering Front, Back, UX, QA, and CI. – Supported Product Owner in translating stakeholder needs into deliverable solutions. – Collaborated on technical design for a new internal assisted-channels tool. – Leveraged Agile methodologies, including story mapping, roadmaps, TDD, and BDD.

– Agile and Lean mentor, principles and frameworks: Scrum, Kanban. – Solution design and software development for e-commerce platform features (J2EE/JDK). – Continuos Integration (Jenkins, GIT) and automated testing.

– Solution design and implementation of new features for the Structured Products application (Java J2EE, Db2, Groovy). – Internal mentoring: Scrum, Agile and Lean principles. – Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuos Delivery (CD).

– Software development (Scrum team) for low latency back-end financial distributed applications (Java, Spring, Maven, FIX protocol, MQ messaging). – Continuous Integration (Bamboo, Sonar/SonarQube) and automated testing. – Other technologies: SQL, C++, shell scripting, Python, Puppet, Perl.

– Development of all the required activities in custom-made Computer Engineering, development of web applications and Java middleware applications. – Web design experience using JavaScript, HTML and CSS for different retail clients and graphical design for client's campaigns. – Modelling complex objects in 3D with Maya software and control of Graphic Engine (CryEngine).