Abdullah AlQahtani, GM Head of Digital Factory

Abdullah AlQahtani

GM Head of Digital Factory

Alinma Bank

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Higher diploma, leadership
Experience
23 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 1 Months

GM Head of Digital Factory at Alinma Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2021

• Leading Digital Banking Strategy’s execution and driving the banks cultural transformation
towards digitization
• Managing digitalization across a portfolio of Customers’ Products, Services and Experience
for Retail and Corporate Banking
• Facilitating the agile way of working to shorten the time to market and foster innovation
• Developed and implemented digital strategies to improve customer engagement, reduce
operational costs, and increase revenue
• Led a team of digital experts to create and maintain a digital factory to increase efficiency
and profitability
• Analyzed and optimized online customer experience to improve customer satisfaction and
loyalty
• Developed and maintained website and mobile applications to ensure seamless customer
experience
• Coordinated with cross functional teams to ensure timely delivery of projects
• Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure the development of high quality digital products
• Developed innovative digital solutions to address customer needs and drive business
growth
• Monitored and reported digital metrics to measure success and identify opportunities for
improvement

Head of Development- DGM at Alinma Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2017 to September 2021

• Plan and monitor the successful implementation of Bank strategy. Responsible for the
quality and technical approach taken by team members, ensuring it is inline with the Bank
strategy - and that projects are delivered on time and on budget.
• Developed and maintained relationships with partners, vendors, and other stakeholders to
ensure the successful launch of several high-profile projects
• Established processes and procedures for the development team to ensure projects were
delivered on time and within budget
• Developed and implemented a process re-engineering to reduce the time it takes to launch
new products and services

Head of Integration - AGM at Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2010 to July 2017

• Creating and implementing service-oriented solutions for bank core applications, channels
and B2B integration to achieve Business Demand
• Plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the design, development, and
implementation of organizational Business Intelligence reporting and analytics
• Ensured compliance with all relevant data privacy and security regulations
• Developed and maintained collaborative relationships with third party vendors and external
stakeholders
• Acted as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful
integration
• Developed and maintained policies and procedures related to information management and
integration

Manager of Information Management at alinma bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2007 to December 2009

Participate in the start-up of the the bank with essintial involvement in varoius IT projects. The participation include Evaluating Vendors, Vendor selection, Manaing projects, Business requirements gathering, Implementation, Testing(Unit, SIT, UAT) deplyoyment to production for the following:
 Enterprise Logical Data Model project.
 MDM
 Simah Cache
 Business Inteligance
 Information Management
 SAMA Reporting System
Building the bank infrastructure for Information Managements and Business Intelligence
• Developed and implemented an Information Management Framework and policy that
ensured data accuracy, compliance, and security
• Responsible for the development of analytics and reporting solutions to support business
operations and strategy
• Designed and implemented a data governance model to ensure data integrity, consistency
and accuracy
• Managed the implementation of a data warehouse to improve the accuracy and
effectiveness of data analysis
• Developed and implemented an effective data strategy to ensure data quality across all
business units
• Developed and maintained an enterprise data model and metadata repository to support
data analysis and reporting
• Monitored and maintained data quality through the use of data profiling techniques
• Developed and implemented ETL processes to support data extraction, transformation and
loading
• Created and maintained dashboards to provide visibility into key performance indicators and
business trends

Project Manager - IT Auditor - IT auditing Team Leader at Saudi Telecom
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2001 to July 2007

*-Planning, organizing, directing and controlling resources in order to ensure the risk among various STC assets (Exchange, Mediation, Integerations and Billing) remains within acceptable bounds .
*-Identifying the threats and vulnerabilities that might impact the assets under review, assist in identifying the likelihood of a threat and vulnerability pair affecting the asset and the impact of a threat exploiting the asset.
*- Identifying existing and new controls to mitigate the risk.
*- Identifying changes to risk or new risks that might affect the asset under review.

Education

Higher diploma, leadership
  • at INSEAD
  • March 2022

Elite Leadership Development Program September 2021 - March 2022

Bachelor's degree, Computer & Information Science
  • at KING SAUD University
  • November 2000

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Specialties & Skills

Agility
Digital Business
Innovation
Rapid Growth
Communications
• Planning, organizing, directing and controlling resources in order to ensure the organization obje
• Public speaker with excelent cummunication skills
leadership
emotional intelligence
communication
customers focus

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2004
Valid Until:
July 2010
CISA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2003
Valid Until:
January 2022
Elite Leadership Development Program (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2022