Ilhan Uludag
Lead Business Analyst
Berlin
Summary
Lead Business Analyst and Product Owner with over 10 years of experience driving value through data-informed decision-making, stakeholder collaboration, and end-to-end product delivery. Brings 5+ years of dedicated Product Ownership expertise, leading cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business goals. Holds an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Proven track record in Agile environments, Iteration Management, and full product lifecycle ownership.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Lead Business Analyst
Springer Nature
Berlin
07.2025 - Current
- Leadership & Team Management: Line-manage Business Analysts within the domain, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance oversight to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Strategic Oversight: Assess projects at a domain level to define high-level requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic priorities.
- Financial & Effort Analysis: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce effort estimations, cost analyses, and revenue forecasts, supporting informed decision-making and prioritization.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with senior stakeholders to evaluate opportunities, manage expectations, and drive initiatives that deliver measurable business value.
Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner (e-commerce)
Springer Nature
Berlin
11.2020 - 07.2025
- Engaging with internal stakeholders at various levels to identify opportunities for new developments and innovation
- Understanding customer personas and user journeys
- Creating product concepts with the designers/wider teams
- Utilizing data to analyse product usage to identify gaps & opportunities
Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner
Springer Nature
Berlin
08.2019 - 11.2020
- Working on a web platform that enables digital transformation of multiple Business Units;
- Building product vision collaboratively with the Business Owners.
- Prioritization of the features and ownership of the roadmap
- Product delivery from discovery to maintenance
- Defining and tracking product goals and metrics
- Making sure the correct feature is implemented with a correct approach by close collaboration with developers.
Senior Consultant
Thoughtworks
Hamburg
09.2017 - 07.2019
- Worked as an Agile Product Owner / Manager on a variety of small to large scale software products from e-commerce and retail industries;
- Facilitated discovery and inception phases of products in order to help the business to deliver the most valuable and suitable product; these phases including business & product visioning, user journey mapping, requirements gathering, prioritization, project & iteration planning.
- Acted as a bridge between business, end-user, and development team so to ensure business goals, product strategies, roadmaps, and successful delivery of services.
- Clarification and prioritization of requirements by using stakeholder management skills.
- Excelled core requirement analysis tasks, i.e. user story writing/slicing/mapping, planning, estimation, prioritization.
Futures Trader
Freelance
Istanbul
12.2014 - 09.2017
- Technical System Trading on Futures Market
- Developed strategies based on quantitive data analysis
- Analysis and implementation of Risk/Reward models
System Analyst
Avea Telecommunication
Istanbul
10.2012 - 11.2014
- Worked as a Solution Owner of the provisioning systems
- Solution Analysis of Provisioning Systems replacement project, from Ericsson-EMA to Comptel-InstantLink
- Agile Project Management and Development
- Monitoring and support during all phases of project life cycle from customer requirements analysis to release
- Vendor Management in multiple outsourced projects, i.e. User Data Convergence (UDC)
Analyst Developer
Nortel Networks Netas
Istanbul
02.2010 - 10.2012
- Worked for analysis, design, and implementation of new features in multi-release VOIP communication products
- New capability improvements on A2E product
- Redhat Enterprise Linux platform customization and maintenance
- Experience with virtualization technologies
Education
MSc - Networks and Distributed Systems
Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden07.2009
BSc - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey06.2007
Skills
- Product Vision to Execution
- Product Management
- People Management
- Requirement Analysis & Backlog Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile, Waterfall
- Technical Analysis & Design
- System Analysis
- Data Analysis
- UML
- Questioning and Problem Solving
- Facilitation and Presentation
- Risk Management
- Perl, Shell, Matlab
- PL/SQL, SQL, XML, HTML
Websites
Certification
03.2020 Product Institute - Product Management Foundations
Timeline
Lead Business Analyst
Springer Nature
07.2025 - Current
Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner (e-commerce)
Springer Nature
11.2020 - 07.2025
Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner
Springer Nature
08.2019 - 11.2020
Senior Consultant
Thoughtworks
09.2017 - 07.2019
Futures Trader
Freelance
12.2014 - 09.2017
System Analyst
Avea Telecommunication
10.2012 - 11.2014
Analyst Developer
Nortel Networks Netas
02.2010 - 10.2012
MSc - Networks and Distributed Systems
Chalmers University of Technology
BSc - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University