IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE)
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Johannes S.
Last position:
Interim Head of Sales IT at EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Interim leadership of a department within Sales IT with around 80 internal and external FTE, including 32 internal employees. Responsible for IT and financial portfolio management, project management, requirements engineering and agile coaching.
- Led four team leaders and two portfolio managers, supporting their development through professional and methodological guidance and coaching; also covered the Agile Coaching team lead role
- Further developed the methodology for prioritizing the IT portfolio and introduced mechanisms to align priorities with available budgets and capacity
- Set up a project to transition projects and development teams to a nearshore location: clarified goals and scope, defined the governance structure and responsibilities, and led the first team transition with 15 employees through to live operations
- Developed and aligned a concept to standardize and support budget planning, forecasting, reporting and ordering processes with tools
- Coordinated the introduction of Spec-Driven Development for requirements engineering in the context of Agentic AI; clarified roles across requirements engineering, business and development, and launched a pilot project
- Developed and aligned an AI maturity model and coordinated its organization-wide assessment
Günther W.
Last position:
Senior Consultant, Founder & Owner at BECOLEX GmbH
- Digital Product Owner & Manager at a large transport company south of Vienna (2023 – 2025)
- Agent Boss | Implementation, further development & management of autonomous AI agents
- Requirements Engineering | From the idea ... to success! (E2E)
- Strategic business development (transformation into a „Frontier Firm“)
- Change management | Digital Transformation · Reorganization & restructuring · Cultural change
- Process management | Analysis · KPI management · Implementation
- Project / initiative management | agile (Scrum) & classic (waterfall), or hybrid PM (method: The Race)
- Facilitation & presentations (teams, C-level, stakeholders, large groups)
- Functional leadership and mentoring of (Junior) Consultants and Business Analysts
Pedro M.
Last position:
SAP FI/CO Inhouse Consultant at Helvetia Versicherungen
Engaged by one of Switzerland’s largest insurance groups for spanish SAP rollout following the acquisition of Caser (Spain), for ongoing support and S/4HANA transformation initiatives covering all Market Units (CH, ES, DE, AT, FR, IT).
Key areas: FI-AP, FI-AR, Payments, Bank Accounting, Cash Management, S/4HANA transformation, eInvoicing, eReporting, Business Partner
- SAP Rollout: Led end-to-end FI-AP, FI-AR, Payments, and Bank Reconciliation rollout for acquired Caser entities in Spain (Dec 2020 – Mar 2022), including full Spanish localisation.
- Integration with FSCD: Redesigned bank statement incoming payments integration in FSCD from custom to SAP standard solution, significantly increasing straight-through processing rates.
- Payments: Retired legacy custom payment trees; implemented SAP standard CGI payment trees and executed migration from ISO 20022 v2009 to v2019.
- Implemented a 1 GL account per House Bank (HBKID) concept with multiple Bank Account IDs (HKTID), reducing the total number of bank GL accounts by over 90%.
- Spanish localization: Configured and deployed Mod 180, 190, 347, 349 and SII Reporting for Spain mainland and Canary Islands using SAP eDocument (DRC) and SAP BTP Webservice, processing 2 million invoices annually, Spanish Direct & Indirect Method Cash Flow Statements (Insurance & Non-Insurance) fully reconciled
- Migration: Used SAP AIF to migrate AR/AP master data, open items, SEPA mandates, and complete GL documents for multiple company code merges (hundreds of thousands of records); leveraged Power BI/Power Query for data transformation.
- Bank Reconciliation: Achieved 60%+ automatic bank reconciliation across MU ES, CH, and DE using CSB43, MT940, and CAMT.053/054 formats, including custom improvements (tax-number-based customer/vendor matching, fuzzy search), and co-implemented the bank statement interface cockpit in SAP AIF. Integrated MX Camt from Swift Finplus and made transition from ISO20022 v2009 to v2019
- Worked on S/4HANA convergence and wrote concept work for SAP Cash Management & Treasury and eInvoicing/eReporting transformation.
- Currently leading the design for Business Partner Migration using SAP DRF and SAP AIF for Helvetia Baloise Integration Project and Harmonization of all BP interfaces.
- Currently leading Requirements Engineering for eInvoicing & eReporting for Italy, France and Spain, modelling Flows in SAP Signavio.
Maria M.
Last position:
Co-Founder and Knowledge Expert at Atlas Leap
- Responsible for Confluence architecture and content strategy; aligned knowledge areas, navigation, page types, and templates with workflows.
- Developed responsibilities, review cycles, terminology, and editorial standards for maintainable knowledge systems.
- Built and continuously developed the information architecture, service offering, and content of the company website.
- Customer projects in the areas of Confluence knowledge structures and workflow management.
Matthias K.
Last position:
Requirements Engineer & Business Analyst at Media Company
Analysis of existing work, information and decision-making processes.
Identification and prioritization of suitable use cases for AI agents.
Elicitation of functional and non-functional requirements.
Design of collaboration between users and AI agents, including control and escalation mechanisms.
Support for the implementation of the AI agents and adapted keyboard hardware.
Business target vision for the AI-first transformation.
Structured and prioritized requirements for implementation.
Defined roles, interactions and control points between people and AI agents.
Preparation for the gradual automation of productive work processes.
Techstack: AI agents, LLMs, agent orchestration, RAG, APIs, automation, hardware
Georgi S.
Last position:
Founder & Executive Advisor | Transformation, Governance & Interim Management at STOEV Enterprises
- Established and lead STOEV Enterprises as an independent management and strategic advisory firm
- Advisory focus on transformation, governance, organizational development, program management and interim management
- Structuring complex situations and developing clear decision-making foundations for management and leadership bodies
- Developing and further enhancing governance, organizational and operating models
- Executive sparring and management advisory on strategic, organizational and operational issues
- Managing and supporting complex transformation, change and implementation initiatives
- Supporting program and portfolio management, prioritization, roadmaps, risks, dependencies and management reporting
- Taking on interim management and leadership responsibilities to stabilize and further develop organizations and initiatives
- Combining a strategic management perspective with a pragmatic, execution-focused approach
- Focus on customer orientation, service excellence and alignment between management, business units, IT, customers and external partners
- Advisory services in IT transformation, IT governance, service & operations management, infrastructure and platform services, as well as sourcing and supplier governance
- Experience in complex, technology-driven and regulated organizations, as well as in the Swiss federal environment
Thorsten B.
Last position:
Platform Product Manager at Elia Group / 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
Sovereign, cloud-native developer platform based on Kubernetes for critical energy infrastructure; around 200 people and 15 product teams.
- Introduced the product operating model for the platform, aligning around 18 product managers and product owners with Platform Architecture and Delivery in a matrix organisation.
- Defined the platform product processes and core product artefacts as the standard across all product teams.
- Established processes for non-functional requirements and Requests for Enhancement from consuming teams and customers.
- Designed the Jira structure supporting the programme's product and delivery processes.
André L.
Last position:
Founder & Managing Director at lesswork Productivity Solutions e.U.
- Design and deploy production multilingual AI voice-agent solutions for customer service, lead capture, after-hours support and front-office automation use cases.
- Delivered three client implementations spanning Europe, Asia and North America, including multilingual support, sales/lead-capture and privacy-sensitive intake workflows.
- Translate business requirements into conversation flows, prompt architecture, knowledge grounding, fallback and handoff logic, guardrails, consent gates and structured data capture; production support deployments include knowledge bases of approximately 1,000 grounded Q&A entries per language.
- Build scenario-based evaluation and regression QA covering normal flows, edge cases, failure modes, handoff behaviour and acceptance criteria; coordinate fixes through production readiness and rollout.
- Work hands-on across Retell, ElevenLabs Agents, Twilio, Supabase/PostgreSQL, Vercel, APIs/webhooks and CRM workflows; lead discovery, demos, solution shaping and cross-functional delivery.
Sector: AI voice automation / customer workflow design
Tobias W.
Last position:
IT Consultant, Co-Founder at PRONT GmbH
- Technical product ownership for a global customer portal in the indoor climate sector, including API integrations, backend connectivity, and expansion of digital customer services
- Developed the solution architecture and AI use cases for a claims management platform, integrating it into the enterprise architecture for a leading insurance company
- Developed the target operating model and led the implementation of the global investment platform for an investment bank
- Developed the target operating model and platform strategy for a new digital health platform for a health insurance company
- Developed the platform strategy, defined use cases, and built the data architecture for a digital health platform of a health insurance company
Elif A.
Last position:
Business Analyst Professional at HES
- Requirements Engineering
- Process optimization and introduction of collaborative working models
- Process modeling with BPMN
- Analysis, specification, and documentation of logistics processes, IT systems, and data models
- Development of conceptual solutions
- Use case creation and documentation
- Data analysis with SQL
- Administration of Jira & Confluence
Mark K.
Last position:
Business Analyst / Business Designer at UNIQA
- Incident analysis and troubleshooting
- Process improvements in collaboration with the business teams
- Joint design and implementation of requirements with the business department and architecture
- Planning and execution of quality management
Daniela H.
Last position:
Data-Based Transformation & Strategic Business Capability Mapping at CSS Versicherung
- Architected and implemented a Data Value Framework as a decision-making basis for strategic prioritization and determining data-driven value contributions along the corporate value chain, connecting data value with business objectives.
- Designed standardized use cases to assess the maturity levels for quantifying business value and data value.
- Integrated the framework within SAFe structures in Lean Portfolio Management and ARTs to guide strategic investment decisions.
- Developed metrics and evaluation procedures for prioritizing business areas based on quantitative data.
- Redesigned data governance, including the introduction of the data owner role with clearly defined responsibilities and differentiation from the data steward role.
- Derived MVP priorities using gap analyses across key areas and value stream analysis.
Derek K.
Last position:
Founder at FiftyForward
Building a company to "support people over 50 as they start a new career"
Focus: "AI first" approaches to establish all relevant processes reliably in the shortest possible time
Core areas:
Business development (including competitor monitoring, channel selection, B2B and B2C strategies)
Marketing (building and optimizing funnels, organic and with paid ads)
Sales (direct B2B and B2C outreach resulting from marketing funnels)
Fulfillment (platform and process development, AI optimization)
Product management (developing the offering and MOAT)
One-to-one coaching and mentoring, platform development and operations
Paulina H.
Last position:
Senior Product Owner at Cornelsen
- Leading distributed, international team in complex delivery environment (EN/DE)
- Managing multi-stakeholder setup across business and tech
- Driving end-to-end product delivery from backlog to release and operations
- Coordinating releases and ensuring stable product operation (incl. 2nd level support)
- Leading migration of legacy systems into scalable target architectures
- Owning and developing core systems for digital and print production
- Establishing and optimising product management processes (Kanban, refinement, backlog management)
Loïc L.
Last position:
Certified ScrumMaster at Scrum Alliance
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IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
70%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
8
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
99%
Based on our profile pool as of 11 Nov 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE)
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 11 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (87%)
- Professional Services (52%)
- Banking and Finance (51%)
- Automotive (40%)
- Government and Administration (37%)
- Manufacturing (36%)
- Telecommunication (36%)
- Insurance (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the certification
What CPRE proves
The IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering, often called CPRE, shows that a freelancer knows how to work with requirements in a disciplined way. It is not about code delivery. It is about understanding needs, asking the right questions, and documenting requirements so teams can build the right thing.
Core skills
A CPRE-certified professional typically brings structure to early project work and to change-heavy delivery phases.
- Eliciting requirements from business and technical stakeholders
- Writing clear, testable, and traceable requirements
- Managing conflicts, scope changes, and priorities
- Supporting reviews, validation, and stakeholder alignment
- Using common requirements engineering methods and notations
Typical profiles
CPRE is common among business analysts, requirements engineers, product owners, systems analysts, and consultants who sit between business and delivery teams. Some hold it to formalize experience they already use every day. Others pursue it to build a solid base before moving into larger transformation or systems projects.
Where it matters
This certification is useful in software projects, process redesign, digital transformation, and complex product development. It is especially relevant when many stakeholders are involved or when requirements are unclear at the start. In Germany and other international teams, CPRE is often a good signal that the freelancer can work in structured, cross-functional settings and communicate precisely.
What a company gets
A freelancer with IREB CPRE is usually a safer choice when the project depends on getting requirements right before design or development starts. That person should help reduce rework, missed assumptions, and late surprises.
- Better requirement quality from the start
- More reliable stakeholder communication
- Stronger traceability from need to solution
- Cleaner handover to development and testing
Level and path
CPRE is known as a practical requirements engineering certification with different progression levels in the IREB track. The Foundation level is the best-known entry point and is often what companies mean when they ask for CPRE. Advanced levels go deeper into analysis, management, and framework topics, so the exact level on a profile matters.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE)? Start with the answers below.
A freelancer holding the IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) has proven structured knowledge of requirements work. That includes eliciting needs, documenting them clearly, and keeping them traceable through delivery. It signals someone who can reduce ambiguity before a team commits to design or development.
CPRE is the umbrella certification name used by IREB, and many people refer to the Foundation level when they say CPRE. In practice, companies often expect the basic professional standard in requirements engineering when they see the acronym. If a profile lists a higher level, it should be read as a more advanced step in the same certification path.
The IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) is most useful in projects where requirements are complex, changing, or shared across many stakeholders. That includes software delivery, digital change, process improvement, and system integration. It is especially valuable when a team needs clear documentation before implementation starts.
IREB CPRE is a strong fit for business analysts, requirements engineers, product owners, system analysts, and consultants. It also helps freelancers who regularly translate business goals into technical requirements. If your work depends on asking better questions and writing precise outcomes, this certification is relevant.
Requirements engineering is the core focus of the certification. In practice, that means stakeholder analysis, elicitation, specification, validation, and change handling. It also covers traceability and the ability to keep requirements consistent as a project evolves.
A candidate preparing for CPRE should study requirements engineering concepts, common methods, and the language of structured specification. Practical experience helps a lot, because the certification rewards clear thinking more than memorized theory. Good preparation usually combines reading, exercises, and work with real or realistic requirement scenarios.
For the IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE), the entry path is generally accessible and centered on knowledge and understanding rather than formal job titles. The exact structure depends on the level within the IREB scheme. Renewal and progression should always be checked against the current IREB rules, especially if you are looking at an advanced level.
CPRE is more specifically centered on requirements engineering than many broader business analysis credentials. It goes deep on elicitation, specification, validation, and traceability. If your company needs someone to shape the requirement base itself, CPRE is a very relevant signal.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) is 108 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 867 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE), 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 70% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers with IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) are German (100%), English (98%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers with IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) are Information Technology (87%), Professional Services (52%), and Banking and Finance (51%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) are Information Technology (96%), Project Management (89%), and Product Development (80%).
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