Hi, I’m
Pedro Suárez Castaño
IT PROJECT & DELIVERY MANAGER | PRODUCT OWNER
Summary
IT Project Manager with extensive experience leading projects and international teams across sectors such as banking, logistics, and European Agencies(EMSA). Extensive expertise in software development, IT project management, and Agile methodologies (PSPO I, Scrum, PMP®), with a strong background in Java and DevOps practices.
Overview
13
years of professional experience
7
Certifications
2
Languages
Work History
ABANCA Insurances
IT Delivery Manager
02.2024 - 06.2024
Job overview
- Project coordination with the PMO and reporting to senior management (Reporting directly to the CTO, SteerCo report, weekly coordination with PMO, DORA tracking,...).
- Manage software delivery planning and third party contracts for ABANCA General Insurances.
- Management of the IT development team, control of software deliveries and incidents.
Altia
IT Project Manager
01.2023 - 02.2024
Job overview
- Reported to European Maritime Safety Agency - EMSA on project status, overseeing planning, gathering requirements, conducting Sprint Review demos, and delivering software for each project, ensuring alignment with objectives and milestones
- Led Agile Scrum teams as Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Project Leader, ensuring high-quality deliveries through sprint planning, backlog refinement, and JIRA workflows across Mobile, Angular, and React migration teams.
Grupo Avalon for Santander Bank
IT Project Manager
06.2021 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Project management and technical oversight of application migration to microservices and REST APIs for Banco Santander España (Java, DevOps/CI-CD, Agile).
- Product Owner: Requirements gathering and business coordination in the Investments-Private Banking area, MIFID (JIRA, Confluence).
Capgemini
Senior Software Engineer
11.2018 - 06.2021
Job overview
- Analysis, development and testing of Internet, Intranet and private Correos Express client (Spanish Postal Service - Logistics client) website applications. (Java, REST APIs, DevOps-CI/CD, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, SQL-Oracle).
Redsys
IT Project Manager
06.2015 - 10.2018
Job overview
- Managed and oversaw PCI-DSS compliant banking projects in the Payment Solutions & Banking sector, leading projects, analysis and development, vendor coordination, and regulatory compliance efforts.
- Implemented REST APIs, Java, Angular, and SQL-DB2 solutions, enhancing banking security and transaction processing.
Everis for Banco Santander, Banco Popular Clients
IT Team Leader
09.2011 - 06.2015
Job overview
- Progressed from Software Developer to Team Lead, driving large-scale banking application migrations in different projects.
- Java development, functional and technical documentation generation and reporting capabilities. Knowledge of debt banking, financial products transversely (Technology Stack: Java, ETL, Bash Shell-Script, JavaScript, SQL, Banksphere, Office, Testlink, JIRA).
Education
Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (UOC)Barcelona, Spain
MBA from Master of Business Administration
01.2022 - Current
UCAM & Sports Data Campus
MsC from Big Data Applied to Sports
04.2024 - Current
UNIRMadrid
University Expert from DevOps & Cloud
06-2021
UNIRMadrid
Bachelor of Science from Computer Engineering
04.2016 - 01.2018
University of OviedoGijón, Spain
Bachelor of Science from Technical Computer Engineering
04.2003 - 01.2011
Skills
Project & Product Management:
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, OKRs, PMP®, PSPO I
JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Clarity
IT Governance & Compliance (LOPD, PCI-DSS, DORA, MIFID)
Software & Cloud Development:
Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, CI/CD, Openshift(PaaS), Jenkins(Groovy), Puppet, Sonarqube, Cucumber, Dynatrace
SQL (Oracle, DB2, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Firebase)
Front-end: Angular, JavaScript, React (as Project Manager), Bootstrap
Data & Analytics: Python, R, Power BI, Tableau, Machine Learning (Learning in current MsC Big Data)
Certification
PSPO I - Professional Scrum Product Owner, 2025
Timeline
PSPO I - Professional Scrum Product Owner, 2025
02-2025
Google Data Analytics Certificate, 2025
01-2025
AWS Cloud Practitioner, 2024
11-2024
UCAM & Sports Data Campus
MsC from Big Data Applied to Sports
04.2024 - Current
IT Delivery Manager
ABANCA Insurances
02.2024 - 06.2024
IT Project Manager
Altia
01.2023 - 02.2024
Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (UOC)
MBA from Master of Business Administration
01.2022 - Current
IT Project Manager
Grupo Avalon for Santander Bank
06.2021 - 12.2022
Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate, 2021
05-2021
OKR Certified Professional (OKRCP)
04-2021
Project Management Professional (PMP)
11-2020
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini
11.2018 - 06.2021
UNIR
Bachelor of Science from Computer Engineering
04.2016 - 01.2018
IT Project Manager
Redsys
06.2015 - 10.2018
IT Team Leader
Everis for Banco Santander, Banco Popular Clients
09.2011 - 06.2015
Microsoft Certified Web Developer (MCPD, MCTS .NET Framework)
06-2011
University of Oviedo
Bachelor of Science from Technical Computer Engineering
04.2003 - 01.2011
UNIR
University Expert from DevOps & Cloud
01.2021