Technology program & delivery leadership
For employers and recruiters in US financial services, fintech, consulting and technology. Ahmed Ali Larik leads complex banking, payments and lending programs from business demand through architecture, delivery, go-live and hypercare.
Areas of leadership
Technical program management
$100M+ portfolios, 10+ cross-functional squads and 80+ initiatives; single point of coordination across product, engineering, QA, operations, risk and vendors.
IT delivery, PMO & governance
PMO setup, RAID and dependency management, steering committees, MBRs/QBRs, budget and vendor governance, executive reporting.
Agile at scale
Agile Release Train design and launch, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums; Release Train Engineer and Technical Scrum Master experience.
Payments & cards
ISO 20022 instant payments, card issuing and acquiring across Visa, Mastercard and UnionPay, EMV migration, NFC and wallets.
Digital lending & core systems
LOS/LMS delivery, BNPL launch, digital onboarding and e-KYC, Temenos T24 core migration across bank mergers.
AI-enabled delivery
LLM-assisted executive reporting and risk analysis, workflow automation, and AI use-case governance with human-in-the-loop controls.
Selected outcomes
- 62% → 89% on-time delivery across a $100M+, 80+ initiative digital lending portfolio.
- ~30% throughput gain after moving waterfall delivery into a SAFe Agile Release Train.
- 3 Temenos T24 core banking migrations across bank mergers, with zero-downtime cutovers.
- 10M+ transactions a year on a national ISO 20022 instant payments integration at 99.9% uptime.
- $20M year-one GMV for a first-in-market BNPL journey across 700+ merchants, under 2.5% loss.
- 48 hours → under 10 minutes account and loan opening after a digital onboarding and e-KYC rebuild.
Details are available in the résumé and in the case studies.
Credentials
- PMP — Project Management Institute
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) — Scrum Alliance
- SAFe POPM — Scaled Agile
- AI Essentials for Business — Harvard Business School Online (all modules completed)
- PMI-ACP (in progress)
B.E. Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology. LinkedIn profile.
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