Juha Rossi

Senior Product Owner

NoA Ignite, Finland (2025 - To date)

I am currently working as a Senior Product Owner, overseeing the development of mobile applications, e-commerce, and various other digital solutions for leading global companies in their domains. In this capacity, I collaborate with teams from NoA Ignite, engage with customer stakeholders, and liaise with the customer's product owners.

Senior Product Owner

Dunning, Kruger & Associates, Finland (2022 - 2025)

Worked in the same role prior to the merger into NoA Ignite, when the company was operating as Dunning, Kruger & Associates (DK&A).

Development Manager

LähiTapiola Palvelut, Finland (2020 - 2022)

My key responsibilities have been acting as Product Manager and temporarily as Business Owner in group-wide WCAG-project. That experience has rooted me a deep expertise of Accessibility and requirements on Finnish Act on the Provision of Digital Services. Simultaneously I have been acting as a Product Manager in a compliance project working around cookie consent and data privacy domains. From that project I have gained loads of knowledge on Cookies, GDPR and Data Privacy requirements.

Product Manager Lead

LähiTapiola Palvelut, Finland (2018 - 2020)

During this period I participated in establishing Digital Competence Center to LahiTapiola as a Lead to other Product Managers.

Owning a Private Customer Self Service was one of my key responsibilities and involved leading a Frontend Agile Release Train (ART4) in a largest program (SAFE) in group's history so far.

During this period I also helped establishing Duet Design System.

Project Manager, Client

LähiTapiola Palvelut, Finland (2011 - 2018)

With over 8 years' project management experience at client side I hold a good customer satisfaction record alongside a dedication to meet scope, timeline and budgetary goals.

Having led a multitude of ICT and business development projects across different Insurance related domains (including Billing, Claims, CRM, Insurance Policy Handling, Network Infra, Data Warehousing, Digitalization etc) I formed a solid understanding on Insurance Tech as business and ecosystem.

Project Manager, Vendor

Tieto-Tapiola, Finland (2010 - 2011)

Projects I was involved with related mainly to coordinating inhouse development (e.g CRM) but also extended to off-the-shelf software acquisition with substantial 3rd party coordination effort.

Software Developer

Tieto-Tapiola, Finland (2009 - 2010)

Miscellaneous software maintenance and development assignments for Tapiola, Turva and Etera Insurance companies.

Mainly IBM Enterprise technologies (WAS/J2EE, DB2/SQL, CICS/Mainframe).

Software Engineer / Architect

LogicaCMG, Finland (2005 - 2009)

Miscellaneous software development projects to classified clients.

Design and implementation of business activity and company scoring system for Suomen Asiakastieto Oy.

J2EE on BEA products (WLW, ELS, WLI, ALSB) and PL/SQL on Oracle Database technologies.

Software Engineer

Comptel, Finland (2001 - 2002)

Maintenance and renewal of internal development and testing environments.

Re-factoring and development of build pipeline to various flavours of Unix.

Perl programming and heavy utilization of Rational tools.

Software Engineer

European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, Switzerland (2000)

Implementation of detector controller framework to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)-environment.

C-programming

Specialist Vocational Qualification on Leadership (JET)

Sovelto, Rastor-instituutti, Projektiyhdistys (2018)

To develop my management and leadership skills, I completed a JET (Johtamisen erikoisammattitutkinto projektijohtajille) certification at 2018.

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Espoo Vantaa Institute of Technology

I learned my Software Engineering fundamentals at international learning environment of EVTEK during 4 years of full time study.

Subcorporal

Paratrooper course, Utti Jaeger Regiment

Back at 2000 I served my military duty as volunteer in Finnish elite troops at Utti Paratrooper Regiment.

Best mental training one can ever have for future.

High school graduate

Finnish Russian High School

I completed bilingually my pre-, comprehensive and upper secondary schools at Kaarela district of Helsinki during 80s and 90s.