Engineering Manager & Platform Strategist

3+ years leading data platform strategy and R&D in retail tech. Specializing in data product management, AI-assisted workflows, and cross-functional delivery across US and EMEA markets.

Now
Sep 2026
  • Leading the RELEX Data Platform R&D team — driving Data Mesh implementation across a world-leading retail SaaS platform with 40+ data products.
  • Building Analytics Hub as a side project — a Finnish business and demographic analytics SaaS using React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.
Experience
06/2026 – Present
Engineering Manager
RELEX Solutions – RELEX Data Platform
  • Managing a cross-functional R&D team of 5, including engineers and product managers.
  • Driving Data Mesh architecture implementation across a world-leading retail-focused B2B SaaS platform — 40+ data products and 5+ data domains.
  • Driving AI-assisted ways of working in R&D — including automated discovery, BI automation, and shared intelligence tooling.
09/2025 – 06/2026
Sr. Manager – Analytics & Platform Strategy
RELEX Solutions – Retail Space and Assortment
  • SaaS platform product management across 90+ B2B retail clients in US and EMEA (NPS 61).
  • Drove Data Platform vision — delivered 3 data products and oversaw 10+ pilot projects.
  • Led cross-functional stakeholder alignment across engineering, sales, support, and business delivery.
09/2024 – 09/2025
Product Manager
RELEX Solutions – Retail Space Analytics
  • Owned product vision and strategy for a greenfield retail space analytics tool.
  • Ran weekly discovery with enterprise retail clients across US and EMEA.
12/2022 – 09/2024
Development Manager
RELEX Solutions – Assortment Planning
  • Owned two simultaneous R&D projects through Design & Build phase — delivered one to sales launch on time.
  • Coordinated 10+ stakeholders per project. Introduced pilot sourcing process adopted by two R&D departments.
11/2022 – 12/2022
Jr. Product Manager
Broman Group Oy
  • Managed a portfolio of 1,700+ products (7M€) across category, purchasing, supplier negotiations, and marketing.
Skills
SaaS Product Management AI Assisted Development Data Governance Enterprise Data Integrations Process Development Stage-Gate Governance Retail Domain Scrum / SAFe Snowflake SQL Semantic Modeling Microsoft Power BI Claude Code Jira ProductBoard NPS Surveying & Analysis
Education
2018 – 2022
M.Sc. in Business Administration
University of Eastern Finland – Kuopio
  • Thesis: Re-examining Internal Drivers of Digital Business Model Transformation in Manufacturing Business
  • Exchange period at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland