bilal bader, Chief Architect

bilal bader

Chief Architect

Arab monetary fund

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, International Management
Experience
24 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 1 Months

Chief Architect at Arab monetary fund
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since July 2021
Senior Project Manager at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 2018 to June 2021

● Acquire, plan, analyze data management lifecycle solutions to achieve the targeted organization data strategy.
● Initiate, plan and execute multi millions projects
● Plan the communication, risk responses.
● End-to-End vendor management process from RFP, RFI and
RFQ steps until the completion of engagement and/or building
strategic partnership with the organization’s preferred vendors.
● Plan, execute and controls and close projects using PMI
methodology.

Project Management Channels at Emirates NBD
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2013 to July 2018

● Lead and managed a team of 50 + talented multi-cultural engineers to deliver a + 5M$ program to transform a 17 years old online banking toward a full digital banking platform by introducing a fully automated services and total new user experience. Which include the following projects
○ Online Banking Portal
○ FaceBanking (Video & Chat Banking Facility)
○ Mobile Banking Application backward compatibility with the new online banking portal
○ Implementing SiteCore content management for the online banking
● Implement software development best practices including but not limited, code quality control (SonarQube), CI/CD, automated testing, peer reviews …etc.
● Motivate and manage a team of 50+ resources
● Increased the total number of generated leads by 130% by building a rule based targeting engine.
● Coaching and mentoring the new team members to streamline with the internal processes and procedures
● End-to-End vendor management process from RFP, RFI and RFQ steps until the completion of engagement and/or building strategic partnership with the organization’s preferred vendors.
● Plan, execute and controls and close projects using Prince2/PMI methodology.
● Enhance Processes and procedures
● Coach the team members and train the new joiners
● Communicate with CXO Members about the projects/program status, risk/issues.
● Deliver the following projects
○ xPress Money Transfer Integration through Online/Mobile Banking
○ UAE Central Bank Payment Gateway Integration
○ KSA Branch Mobile application
○ InstaPay Innovation idea (transfer to a mobile number within Emirates NBD customer based)

Project Manager / Development Team Leader at EastNets
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2007 to September 2013

● Plan iterative deliverable, monitor and control the plan activities to stabilize SafeWatch filtering 2.0 product.
● Oversee the delivered documentation from the project phases.
● Deliver online reporting, and status reports to upper management about the health of project(s) execution.
● Develop internal processes for coordination and collaboration between the technical support stakeholders to enhance the technical support services.
● Implement company processes to advance the level of services and ensure high quality deliverables.
● Identifying areas of risks and propose the strategy for dealing with it.
● Manage projects/products scope. And control changes by applying the change management process.
● Managing, coaching, motivating and training the project team.
● Conducting requirements gathering sessions, requirements elicitation, requirements documentation and scope management.
● Conducting pre-tender analysis and scoping.
● Participating in writing the proposals.
● Managing Project by applying PMI standards.
● Participate in the process improvement and building new processes to enhance the work performance.
● forming a team of 8 engineers. coaching, training of the team.
● Manage the daily tasks and project deadline.
● Creating proposals as part of bid responses.
● Conduct technical management meetings to plan the internal technical standards.
● Define coding standards and base framework architecture.
● Manage analyzing the existing product conversion and upgrade to new technologies.
● Prepare analysis and requirements documents for different type of products/projects.
● Implement Agile methodology and managing TFS.
● Design, develop a financial messaging hub that supports RTGS (KASSIP and SARIE) and SWIFT messages.

Technical Team Lead at Educational Testing Services
  • Jordan
  • January 2006 to May 2007

• Plan project and develop project schedule.
• Monitor and execute the project plan on daily basis with development team.
• Define changes on database schema and update it accordingly.
• Analyze system requirements with BAs.
• Conduct detailed code review for developers.
• Apply company standards in naming convention and using common functionality.
• Keep track for opened bugs.
• Analyze ambiguous defects.

Senior Developer / Technical Team Lead at eSense Software Solutions
  • Jordan
  • May 2003 to January 2006

• Conduct gathering requirements and system analysis sessions.
• Preparing project plan and distributing tasks for developers.
• Design databases schema.
• Define development frameworks and basic classes and interfaces for different projects.
• Cooperate with QA team to define defects tracking and solving process.
• Responsible for projects releases.
• Handling end-clients training.
• Involved in documenting projects architectures and user manuals.
• Dealing with critical tasks.
• Doing proof of concept.
• Coordinating project closure efforts.
• On hand development experience.

Internet Solution Developer at Eskadenia Software Solutions
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2001 to May 2003

• Conducting gathering requirements and system analysis sessions with end clients.
• Designing database schema for different projects.
• Coordinating projects hardening phase.
• On hand developments for multiple websites and web portals.
• Designing website structure and new CMS and workflow products.

Web developer at TISGroup
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2000 to June 2001

1-Re-structuring www.esayyarat.com database and web site hierarchy.
2-Conducting data clean-up and existing data merging.
3-Responsible for website deployment.

Programmer at Alturath Computer Center
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2000 to July 2000

In this job i was involve in analyze, design and implement two applications for outmarket and many small modules programed for the internal research purposes, the main language that I was used VB and access DB

Education

Master's degree, International Management
  • at Sbs Swiss Business School
  • May 2021
Diploma, Management
  • at Harvard Business School
  • May 2016

Executive Management program - Certified Manager Program

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Zarka Private University
  • February 2000

GPA 80.6% very good, I was active member of computer science club, also I was very active in scientific researches and activities during my academic lifetime in the university.

Specialties & Skills

SWIFT messaging
Banking Software
Team Management
Vendor Management
Agile Project Management
MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS OutLook
Initiative
Quantitative Analysis
VB 6.0, VB.Net, ASP 3.0, ASP.Net,C#, SQL Server 2000, XML
System Analysis, Software Design, Requirement collection
Commerce Server 2000, Sharpoint server 2003
Content Management Server 2002
Good in application processing, data modeling, flowcharting.
Client’s support capabilities
ability to work under pressure.
Responsible of application releases
Build detailed application designs and system flows.
Having a good experience in test plan preparation, testing validations, program debugging
Good experience in UML notation, Visio tool
team player
Experience in MSF
In depth knowledge of SDLC
Non Functional Testing
Mobile Banking
Online Banking
Remittances
Vendor Management
Requirements Analysis
Team Management
Agile and Waterfall methodology
Strategy
Digital Banking
Stackholders Management
Team Leadership
Business Analysis
CI / CD
Agile Project Management
Vendors Management
Stakeholders Management

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Computer Society (JCS)
  • Active Member
  • September 2005

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
August 2023
Licensed Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020
Certified Manager Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Harvard Business School
Date Attended:
February 2016
Duration:
40 hours
PMP preparing Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Method Corporation
Date Attended:
October 2009