Sam Burge
Senior Product Owner @Ordnance Survey
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Product Owner @Ordnance Survey
As a Senior Technology Product Owner at Ordnance Survey, I provide product leadership across complex Sourcing and Platform services that underpin the sourcing, refinement, and delivery of national geospatial data.I work closely with multidisciplinary teams to shape product vision and outcomes, prioritise value‑led roadmaps, and ensure reliable, sustainable delivery across technically complex environments. My role focuses on aligning customer needs, organisational strategy, and engineering capability to deliver measurable impact at scale.Alongside hands on product ownership, I support continuous improvement in ways of working, coach and mentor Product Owners, and contribute to strategic initiatives across data platforms, operational resilience, and service optimisation.
EDUCATION
The Appleton School (Benfleet)
Information Technology
Seevic Colllege
Political Science and Government
SKILLS
ABOUT SAM BURGE
Senior Technology Product Owner | Data Platforms & Geospatial | Product Leadership • Outcome‑Driven DeliveryI lead product ownership for complex data and platform services that underpin national geospatial capabilities. As a Senior Technology Product Owner at Ordnance Survey (remote), I’m accountable for translating strategic intent into clear, prioritised outcomes — balancing customer value, platform sustainability, operational resilience, and technical health.I work across multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders to shape product vision, guide roadmaps, and maintain delivery focus on outcomes rather than outputs. My role spans direction‑setting, backlog leadership, governance, and ensuring high standards for data quality and reliability in regulated environments.My approach is pragmatic and collaborative: align early, prioritise relentlessly, validate assumptions, and deliver improvements that teams can stand behind and users actually adopt. I partner closely with engineering leads, architects, and delivery managers — focusing on what and why, while trusting teams on how.Known for • Clear product direction and disciplined backlog leadership• Evidence‑based prioritisation that aligns stakeholders around outcomes• Strong, respectful partnership with engineering teams• Robust governance and data‑quality practices across platform services• Calm, structured communication through ambiguity, change, and riskRecent highlights • Led product ownership for ingestion and flow‑through of new geospatial datasets, aligning Databricks and Unity Catalog development with CDSP curation and downstream product modules.• Embedded quality checks and thematic‑accuracy targets into acceptance criteria, improving reliability and trust in analytics for government users.• Established transparent ways of working across Aha! and Azure DevOps, improving traceability from roadmap through to release and UAT.I care deeply about making complex data usable and trustworthy. If you’re working in geospatial, analytics, or platform enablement — and value clear product thinking paired with engineering pragmatism — let’s connect.
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