Delivering Vahana Hub’s first Saudi deployment
A client-branded platform on the lender’s own infrastructure.
- Market
- Saudi Arabia
- My work in this market
- Mortgage lending, API delivery and billing
Project brief
A Saudi home-finance lender needed Vahana Hub on its own infrastructure, under its own brand, to connect its lending systems with provider APIs. The delivery depended on several teams: our platform and integration teams, the client’s infrastructure and security teams, and external service providers. I managed the engagement across scope, priorities and dependencies, took the platform to launch and coordinated the security-assessment work.
My role
I managed the delivery plan, client coordination, integration tracking and escalation process. Engineering and infrastructure teams implemented the platform and technical controls; the client kept ownership of its infrastructure and business priorities.
- 3 months
- to launch the client-branded platform
- 257
- provider APIs tracked through integration
Key decisions
- 01
Keep the scope visible as it changes
I planned against a named API list and tracked additions separately. We could take on agreed extra work while its delivery and commercial implications stayed visible.
- 02
Sequence delivery around operational needs
I planned migration in waves, starting with payment services and the home-finance database, followed by fraud, anti-money-laundering and lending systems. I updated the plan around the client’s priorities and the dependencies each service needed resolved.
- 03
Track readiness on both sides of an integration
An API being integrated into our platform did not mean the client was using it. I tracked platform and client status separately across test and production environments, with each blocker assigned to an owner. That made the remaining work clearer than one overall completion figure.
Outcome
Launched the client-branded platform within a three-month sprint. The client’s SAMA API security assessment later closed every requirement.
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