Consultant / Director · Agile Delivery Lead
Director and Agile Delivery Lead
Agile delivery lead with 25 years in banking, legal and enterprise programmes.
01 / Overview
Agile delivery lead with 25 years in banking, legal and enterprise programmes. Asad has led teams of up to 85 engineers, coached 100+ engineers across nine teams and ran a bank's first agile proof of concept.
Before SimplyAgile: Senior Manager at Accenture (2003 – 2013) and consultant at Dimension Data (2001 – 2003).
02 / Roles
Industries
Banking and financial services · Central banking and regulation · Insurance · Legal and professional services · Energy and mining · Logistics · Tech start-ups
03 / Engagements
2025 – 2026
Technical Project Manager. A new digital banking platform (web, mobile and USSD) for Absa's African markets, coordinating 10+ technical leads and the build vendor.
2023 – 2025
Global Technical PM and Scrum Master. A global finance implementation across six regions, with teams in the UK, South Africa and Australia: environments, conversion, integration and security.
2023 – 2025
Agile Coach. Hollard's first SAFe rollout at scale: 10–15 teams and 150+ people, with new standards, training and Power BI and Azure DevOps reporting.
2023 – 2024
PM, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Agile ways of working across 7–10 teams (about 120 people) on the Financial Surveillance programme, including DevSecOps set-up.
2015 – 2017
Agile Coach and Scrum Master. Ran the bank's first agile proof of concept, then coached nine teams of 100–120 engineers on core banking.
2011 – 2013
Project Manager. Led a team of about 85 engineers within a 200-person core banking transformation.
04 / Credentials
Certifications show the year obtained.
05 / Case studies
South African Reserve Bank
120
people in agile teams
A landmark programme to overhaul financial surveillance across the South African banking sector, with a new function to stand up.
Asad PatelMar 2023 – Dec 2024Absa
9
markets the platform is built for
Replace legacy web, mobile and USSD channels with one digital banking platform for retail and business clients across Absa's African markets.
Asad PatelJun 2025 – Oct 2026Dentons
6
regions, one finance system
A finance system implementation for a global law firm across six regions: UKIME, the USA, Canada, Latin America, Singapore and Europe.
Asad PatelMar 2023 – May 2025Komatsu, Trulieve, Curaleaf
1.3M+
master-data records
Product and material master-data programmes on Informatica Product 360, fed from ERP (including SAP) and feeding eCommerce and downstream systems.
Nasar Patel and Asad Patel2023 – Apr 2026Hollard Insurance
150+
people in one agile model
Hollard's first implementation of agile at scale using SAFe in its IT department.
Asad Patel and Nasar PatelAug 2023 – Nov 2025