Jamal El Habri

Senior Program & Transformation Leader | AI & Payments

Salary / Daily rate

Brussels, Belgium

Mobility: Luxembourg, Paris, ...

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

AIConfluenceJiraProcurementGitHubData EngineeringLLMs / Large language modelsDevOpsTesting & QAAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformTableauDockerE-commerce WebsitesShopifyMachine LearningScrumMonday.comKubernetesOdoo

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Dutch

About me

Intro

Senior transformation leader with 15+ years driving digital change for tier-1 financial institutions across Europe. Delivered EU-wide payments modernization at Worldline, post-trade compliance at Euroclear, and AI/ML optimization at scale. Trusted C-suite advisor specializing in payments strategy, regulatory alignment, and complex IT execution that delivers measurable ROI in FinTech and banking environments.

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Work experience

Freelance Consultant — Strategy, IT Transformation & AI

Freelance / Contract / Self-Employed

Belgium, WI, USA

Senior consultant and strategic advisor partnering with financial institutions, payment organizations, and tech platforms across Europe. I align C-suite strategy with complex IT execution to deliver measurable impact in digital transformation, payments modernization, regulatory compliance, infrastructure migrations, and AI/ML optimization. Key missions delivered (selection with minimum duration of 12 months): — Worldline Group: EU payments & cards transformation; CI/CD modernization; vendor/security governance; Ingenico acquiring integration; improved platform reliability. — Confidential Client (MENA): Regional expansion strategy; executive governance; partner ecosystem; market-entry playbooks. — EquensWorldline: Astra Issuing & HPNS migrations; hybrid Agile/PRINCE2 delivery; strengthened compliance and cross-country coordination. — RBC Dexia / IS Bank: Global deployments (OMS, SAP HANA) across Luxembourg–London–Toronto; cross-site Agile sprints; risk and supplier management. — Euroclear: CSDR, DTCC/T2S and post-trade transformation; streamlined corporate actions; improved reconciliation & reporting accuracy. — BNP Paribas Fortis: SEPA governance & SLA frameworks; incident management uplift; regulatory alignment across payment operations. — Outlier AI: AI/ML optimization & dataset engineering; improved predictive performance on large-volume pipelines. Expertise: Digital Transformation • Payments & Cards • Program & Portfolio Management • AI/ML Optimization • Regulatory (SEPA, MiFID, Basel, CSDR, KYC/AML) • Infrastructure Migration • C-Level Stakeholder Alignment • Agile & DevOps • Risk & Governance


Education

Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckere

Marketing and Finance

1988 - 1991

4 years

Institut des Carrieres Commerciales

High School, Banque/Bourse/Finance

1988 - 1990

3 years

ICC Brussels


Licenses & certifications

Technical Support Fundamentals

Issued: Nov 2021

Certified by United Latino Students Association

ICMG

Issued: Oct 2012

Certified by ICMG world

Prince 2

Issued: May 2012

Certified by APMG

Portfolio

New case studyDeployment of New Digital Payment Features (Cards & E-commerce)

Payment Processing Migration (Worldline)

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