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Senior Business Transformation Consultant

Zaineb
Ouerfelli

Enterprise Architecture · Product Ownership · CX Design

6+ years across Saudi Arabia, France, and Tunisia. TOGAF, PSPO, PSM, and ISTQB-certified. I help government and private-sector organizations bridge strategy, architecture, and delivery — designing capability models, mapping customer journeys, and holding both to DGA and NORA 2.0 governance standards.

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Zaineb Ouerfelli
6+
Years of Experience
3
Languages Spoken
Top 4
National DXMI 2026
5
Certifications
Active Markets Saudi Arabia · Tunisia · France

The Thinking Behind the Work

Unlearning the outdated.
Guiding with evolving conviction.

I care about the work. I treat every project as my own — leading execution and bringing people together around a shared ethos. Business is about people, and empathy is a strength when it's backed by unwavering conviction.

01  The Story

I learn systems deeply before I transform them.

My career began in agricultural engineering — a discipline built on understanding complex, interdependent systems and planning for long-term sustainability. I didn't leave that thinking behind when I moved into technology; I brought it with me.

That foundation shapes how I approach enterprise architecture: not as a documentation exercise, but as a way of genuinely understanding how an organization works before proposing how it should change. My work sits at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and Agile delivery.

Saudi Arabia isn't an opportunity I happened into — it's where I've deliberately built my practice. Since 2022 I've worked inside flagship transformation programs, contributing to the governance standards, architecture frameworks, and citizen-facing services that Vision 2030 demands. Trilingual in Arabic, English, and French, I operate fluidly across cultural and institutional contexts — no ramp-up, no translation layer.

The method travels. In 2026 I took the same architecture practice into a healthcare ERP transformation in France — different regulator, different language, same discipline of understanding the system before redesigning it.

Enterprise Architecture

Capability modeling, target operating models, service catalogues, and TOGAF / NORA 2.0-aligned architecture frameworks.

CX Design & Service Architecture

Personas, mega and detailed journey mapping, ecosystem blueprints, service classification, and channel design.

Agile Product Ownership

Backlog ownership, user-story refinement, sprint coordination, and stakeholder alignment.

Delivery Governance

Business cases, risk registers, RACI, phase exit and Go/No-Go criteria, and delivery-methodology selection.

AI & Digital Readiness

Learning experience design and institutional readiness frameworks for AI adoption.

02  Selected Work

  1. Business & Customer Experience Architecture Consultant Real Estate General Authority (REGA) — Saudi Arabia Jul 2026 — Present
  2. Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Consultant NHC CARE · Healthcare ERP — France May 2026 — Jul 2026
  3. Digital Experience Maturity Index Consultant National Housing Company (NHC) — Saudi Arabia Feb 2026 — Apr 2026
  4. Enterprise Architecture Consultant Ministry of Sports — Saudi Arabia Nov 2024 — Dec 2025
  5. Business Transformation Consultant SDAIA · Deem Program — Saudi Arabia Aug 2024 — Nov 2025
  6. Product Ownership Consultant Saudi Tourism Authority · Visit Saudi Nov 2022 — Jul 2024
  7. Product Ownership Consultant Bepatient / Alira Health · Healthcare Products Mar 2020 — Nov 2022
  8. Back-office Operations Manager OWLIANCE · Insurance Customer Ops Aug 2018 — Feb 2020
  9. Lead Engineer SMVDA · Agricultural Operations May 2017 — Aug 2018

Featured Case Studies

01
Government · Real Estate Regulation

Business & CX Architecture for the Real Estate General Authority

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · 2026 — Present

Context. REGA regulates Saudi Arabia’s real-estate sector across five business lines — investment, development, brokerage, licensing & professional practice, and protection of rights — while consolidating its services behind a Super App.

Challenge. Each business line carried its own services, channels, and partner institutions, with no shared view of the property lifecycle and no agreed line between what the regulator delivers and what a partner institution does.

Delivered. Mega and detailed customer journeys across every core and cross-cutting business line, with personas, stages, and service touchpoints mapped end to end; a whole-sector Development & Investment Ecosystem blueprint tracing the property lifecycle from land acquisition to exit; service-classification and channel-design standards separating core from partner-delivered services; and business capability models and service-catalogue mappings aligned to REGA’s regulatory mandate.

Outcome. A Research → Mega Journey → Detailed Journey methodology was adopted as the standing approach for every business line, and the capability and service models now support the Super App’s target operating model and roadmap.

Journey Architecture Ecosystem Blueprint Target Operating Model
02
Healthcare · ERP Transformation

Business Process Architecture for a Healthcare ERP Transformation

France · 2026

Context. NHC CARE, a French healthcare organization, was replacing the ERP behind a 400–500-person field workforce processing roughly 165,000 invoices a month.

Challenge. Patient intake, regulatory and contract billing, logistics, and field operations existed as practice rather than documentation — and the billing engine carried live regulatory exposure under LPPR billing rules, HAS PSDM certification, and RGPD/HDS.

Delivered. Ownership of the business-process architecture workstream: discovery workshops and process demonstrations translated into structured documentation and a process catalog; a business case and risk register surfacing regulatory exposure and the stakeholder landscape upfront; a delivery governance framework covering RACI, phase exit / Go-No-Go criteria, and Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid methodology selection; and test-governance and non-regression recommendations to protect billing integrity through migration.

Outcome. Executive sponsorship was secured on a risk-informed foundation, with a communication plan keeping sponsors aligned across successive project phases.

Process Architecture Risk & Business Case Delivery Governance
03
Government · Housing

Digital Experience Maturity Assessment — National Housing Company

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · 2026

Context. NHC’s digital platforms were assessed against the Digital Experience Maturity Index (DXMI) — the Digital Government Authority’s national benchmark for government digital services.

Challenge. Maturity scores turn on evidence, not intent. Journeys and touchpoints had to be analysed across entities for real UX gaps, and every claim had to be backed by evaluation evidence that would survive DGA review.

Delivered. Platform assessment against DXMI standards; journey and touchpoint analysis identifying UX gaps, pain points, and service-delivery weaknesses; preparation, validation, and review of DXMI evaluation evidence for accuracy, completeness, and DGA compliance; and practical, data-driven improvement roadmaps mapped to each maturity gap.

Outcome. One of the assessed major platforms placed 4th nationally in the 2026 DXMI ranking.

DXMI 2026 Top 4 National Evidence & Compliance
04
Government · Sports & Youth

Enterprise Architecture for the Ministry of Sports

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · 2024–2025

Context. A ministry overseeing sports facilities, events, youth, and development was undertaking a strategic digital transformation aligned with the DGA and the national NORA 2.0 framework.

Challenge. Four distinct strategic domains, no unified view of capabilities, and no architecture artifacts to support evidence-based investment decisions or EA Qiyas compliance.

Delivered. Current- and target-state architecture across all four domains — capability models, value streams, and governance — plus full CX architecture (personas, citizen journeys, touchpoint analysis) and a complete EA Qiyas evidence package.

Outcome. Deliverables were adopted directly into executive digital-investment decisions; the EA Qiyas submission was completed on time with full documentation coverage.

TOGAF / NORA 2.0 Capability Models EA Qiyas
05
Government · AI & Infrastructure

Government-wide AI & Infrastructure Adoption — SDAIA Deem Program

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · 2024–2025

Context. SDAIA was deploying a comprehensive infrastructure ecosystem — cloud, security, backup, storage, database, collaboration, and DNS — across government entities Kingdom-wide.

Challenge. The infrastructure was sound; adoption was not. Teams lacked the context and structured pathways to adopt the platforms, and existing documentation was architecture-level, not human-level.

Delivered. End-to-end learning experience design for the full Deem ecosystem — role-based curricula for technical and semi-technical audiences, scenario-driven learning paths, and operational content bridging infrastructure concepts to daily government workflows.

Outcome. The framework contributed to government-wide institutional readiness for AI and digital infrastructure adoption under SDAIA's national mandate.

Learning Design AI Readiness National Scale
06
Tourism · National Platform

Product Ownership for the Visit Saudi Platform

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · 2022–2024

Context. Visit Saudi — the Kingdom's flagship national tourism platform — was scaling its digital products toward Vision 2030 tourism targets, serving millions of domestic and international visitors.

Challenge. Rapid growth created backlog and prioritization pressure, misalignment between business strategy and delivery teams, and inconsistent UX validation across distributed teams.

Delivered. End-to-end backlog ownership with clear prioritization, requirement workshops translated into refined user stories, UX/UI prototype validation against journey maps, and sprint facilitation across distributed cross-functional teams.

Outcome. The platform ranked in the Top 10 of Saudi Arabia's 2024 Digital Experience Maturity Index — an independent national benchmark administered by the DGA.

Top 10 DXMI 2024 Scrum / Agile Product Backlog

03  Methods & Toolkit

The frameworks, standards, and tools behind every engagement — built over 6+ years across government, real estate, healthcare, tourism, and technology.

Architecture Frameworks

TOGAF DGA NORA 2.0 Capability Modeling Target Operating Models Value Stream Mapping EA Qiyas Business Process Architecture Service Catalogues

CX & Service Design

DXMI Customer Journey Mapping Service Blueprinting Persona Definition Prototype Validation Maturity & Gap Analysis Ecosystem Blueprinting Service Classification

Agile & Delivery

Scrum Backlog Ownership User-Story Refinement Sprint Planning ISTQB Testing Release Coordination RACI & Go/No-Go Governance Risk Register & Business Case

Tools

Jira Confluence Figma Xray Google Analytics Cypress Microsoft Office

Domains

Government Transformation Real Estate & Housing Healthcare Products Tourism Platforms AI & Data Adoption Learning Design Insurance Ops

Languages

Arabic — Native English — Fluent French — Fluent

Certifications

TOGAF EA
Foundation · 2025
PSPO
Scrum Product Owner · 2023
PSM1
Scrum Master · 2022
ISTQB
Foundation · 2019
PMP
In Progress · 2026

04  Contact

Let's work together.

Available for enterprise and business process architecture, digital transformation programs, CX and service architecture, and product ownership consulting — across GCC, MENA, and European markets.

Engagement Types

  • Enterprise Architecture ConsultingOpen
  • Product Ownership / PO ConsultingOpen
  • CX Architecture & Journey MappingOpen
  • Digital Transformation ProgramsOpen
  • GCC / Saudi Arabia MarketPreferred
  • Remote / Hybrid DeliveryOpen