Alexander Petitjean - Senior Solution Architect, KRITIS

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Baden-Baden, Germany

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Experience

Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

6 months

Senior Solution Architect

IT.NRW - The IT service provider of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Responsible for the solution architectures of the eGov solution "e-Akte" for KRITIS authorities of the state of NRW, tailored to the specific needs of the customers, as well as ensuring that these solutions can be operated efficiently and reliably
Modeling the KRITIS IT architecture (cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and development) using Archimate
Ensuring IT governance, compliance, data protection, and the establishment of standards in line with the business strategy
Managing service providers for the eAkte product nscale from Ceyonic
EAM and LeanIX, documentation of IT systems, interfaces, technologies
Solution architecture & stakeholder management, including business units & IT teams

Sep 2020 - Mar 2025

4 years 7 months

Senior Solution Manager

BWI - The IT provider of the FEDERAL ARMED FORCES - Bundeswehr / Federal Ministry of Defence

IT project management with a focus on solution design for the digitization of the Bundeswehr as well as BWI Corporate IT, responsible for managing requirements processes from intake with BMVg/ Bw, analysis, implementation through to acceptance as the development of solution-oriented service compositions
IT solution management for Bw programs / projects: Navy, Army, Air Force, Cyber & Information Space, Joint Support Service, Medical Service. Special assignment as IT Solution Manager for an (IT) NATO project, including for future UN missions; special assignment as IT project manager for the creation of an exclusive military information system for the Federal Minister of Defence (Christine Lambrecht, former)
Responsible for preparing offers (creating solution blueprints: requirements engineering & management, including according to the IREB standard, among others in cooperation with solution architects), process and procedure descriptions, service descriptions, calculations, effort estimates, project plans)
Responsibility for tenders / procurement (IT purchasing) in cooperation with the procurement team
Responsible in the KRITIS environment for IT security concepts according to BSI basic protection, ensuring data protection GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001
Leading solution teams of around 5-50 employees from over 100 managed service units (internal services / numerous external service providers) to ensure delivery capability, moderating workshops
Responsibility for release and product planning as well as operational readiness and further development of the assigned IT products and services
Project and process responsibility, especially for monitoring project progress, monitoring, documentation as well as escalation management, committee work: member of the management boards of directors / at relevant gates (including Solution Review Board)
Tools: process management (ARIS), portfolio management (Alfabet), project management (JIRA / Confluence, MS Project), Customer RM (MS Dynamics CRM), ITSM (USU Software), RE & RM (IBM Doors)

Jul 2019 - Sep 2019

3 months

IT Consultant (Role: IT Product Manager)

Deutsche Bahn Group - DB Schenker

Product management Global Air Freight Logistic (Java application, Transport Management System TANGO)
Requirements management for Global Airfreight Processes "e-Order Management" (System Scout)
New customer integrations (EDI API:) Swarovski (consulting at the Austria site), Merck
Temporary project support, completed project

Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

5 months

IT Consultant (Role: Software Engineer)

REWE Group - DER Touristik Online GmbH

Support in migrating the existing eCommerce platforms (DERtour.de, meiersweltreisen.de) to a new CMS (Magnolia), JavaScript tech stack)

Mar 2018 - Jul 2018

5 months

IT Consultant (Role: IT Service Manager)

Coface Versicherung - Compagnie Française d'Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur SA

Interim management: incident, release, test, change management for the insurance rating system
Technical changes to the system (Java 1.4)
Temporary project support, completed project

Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

4 months

IT Consultant (Role: IT Business Analyst)

GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

Creation of a requirements specification for the new solution "international room booking system of GIZ"
Temporary project support, completed project

Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

4 months

IT Consultant (Role: IT Service Manager)

Aareal Bank AG

Interim management: incident, release, test, and change management of ABACUS/DaVinci reporting
Software engineering: creating batch control for the Java EE application ABACUS/DaVinci
Temporary project support, completed project

Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

4 months

IT Consultant (Role: Software Engineer, Product Owner)

UDG - United Digital Group

Further development of eCommerce solution for Lufthansa City Center (Java SE 6 / Spring)
Scrum PO (creating user stories, epics) for Bauhaus DIY store eCommerce solution (Adobe AEM)
Temporary project support, completed project

Jan 2014 - Mar 2014

3 months

IT Consultant (Role: IT Architect)

Stadt Frankfurt am Main

Consulting the management on introducing MS SharePoint as an internal and external CMS (Enterprise 2.0)
Consulting the management on introducing IT service management (ITIL V3 change management process)
Temporary project support, completed project

Apr 2012 - Aug 2012

5 months

IT Consultant (Role: IT Architect)

Hahn Air Lines

Consulting the management on introducing MS SharePoint as a new company architecture (Enterprise 2.0)
Introducing process management based on BPM/N 2.0 and introducing the Signavio tool
Temporary project support, completed project

Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

3 months

IT Consultant (role: IT Business Analyst)

Lufthansa Group - handling counts GmbH

Consulting for management on a new BI / DWH solution and the introduction of the Balanced Scorecard (previously: management reporting, forecasts, KPI reports based on MS Excel & MS Access)
Consulting for management on the introduction of a company-wide management dashboard
Demand & Change Management for the operational (PHP) application INCA (commercial air freight handling)
Temporary project support, completed project

Jul 2011 - Dec 2011

6 months

IT Consultant (role: IT Management Consultant)

Kegon AG

Turnaround management (company restructuring) for BITMARCK (healthcare)
Consulting on agile company transformation (coaching for Scrum / Kanban)
Consulting for building a new software architecture -> From monolith to SOA
Setup of CI / CD, migration of build management for J2EE application ISKV_21C (Ant2Gradle)
Temporary project support, completed project

Sep 2010 - Jun 2011

10 months

Software Engineer

Kassenzahnärztliche Vereinigung Hessen

Software engineering: new solution “Emergency Service Management System” (Java EE 5 – Oracle WebLogic AS)
Ensuring operation of the old emergency service solution according to ITIL requirements
General workload in the IT team of 5 employees below 20%, therefore terminated

Feb 2010 - Aug 2010

7 months

Software Engineer & IT Business Analyst & IT Project Manager

Thomas Cook AG

Consolidation of the Europe-wide IT system landscape and standardization through IBM (Accenture, and others)
Software engineering solution: hotel purchasing management system (Java EE 5 – IBM WebSphere AS)
Business analysis & project management for solution: hotel purchasing management system
€400 million major project -> failed -> company no longer exists

Apr 2009 - Oct 2009

7 months

Software & Requirements Engineer (graduate, full-time)

Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH

Requirements engineering for application TANGO (flight operations management system)
TANGO is Lufthansa's mission-critical solution (“heart”) with hundreds of interfaces to internal/external customers (airports, federal police, logistics, etc.)
Software engineering: development of a new software and IT architecture for the TANGO migration (SOA, ESB, MQ... Java EE5, JBoss AS)

Aug 2008 - Oct 2009

1 year 3 months

Software & Requirements Engineer (student worker - 20h part-time)

Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH

Requirements & Software Engineering (Java) for a monitoring solution for
Lufthansa solution "STORM" (hub management at the airport), Java
Software Engineering (Java, Spring) for the new IOCC company portal solution
Setup and operation of a group-wide Identity & Access Management system

Mar 2008 - Jul 2008

5 months

Software & Requirements Engineer (intern - full-time)

Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH

Requirements Engineering & Software Engineering for the COMPAS application (C++ - Qt4)
Prototype solution development: pilot retraining plan (Crew Operation Planning)

Jul 2005 - Feb 2008

2 years 8 months

Mainz, Germany

IT Team Lead (student worker - 20h part-time)

University Medical Center Mainz - Trauma Surgery

Responsible for IT in trauma surgery in the KRISIS environment (OR, emergency department central emergency admission, D-physician)
Setup & leadership of my own IT organization (4 employees) within Campus IT
Introduction of IT service management according to ITIL (incident, problem, change management)
Consolidation of the heterogeneous IT system landscape, standardization using Microsoft architecture
Setup of Active Directory, ensuring IT governance and compliance
Reporting to Chief Physician Prof. Dr. Dr. Rommens and Senior Consultant Dr. Müller-Haberstock

Feb 2001 - Aug 2002

1 year 7 months

IT Service Manager (intern - full-time)

DekaBank

Field service management, incident management, problem management
Support with the group-wide IT rollout of NetInstall and the introduction of ITSM

Industry experience

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Experienced in Government and Administration, Aerospace and Defense, Healthcare, Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Tourism.

Government and Administration

Aerospace and Defense

Healthcare

Information Technology

Banking and Finance

Tourism

Business area experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Operations, Product Development, Procurement, and Strategy.

Information Technology

Project Management

Operations

Product Development

Procurement

Strategy

Summary

IT consultant with more than 10 years of experience in complex IT / organizational projects

Successful in leading IT projects (Agile / Waterfall) and implementing innovative solutions to improve business processes and customer satisfaction

Skills

Experience In Project Management
Experience In Requirements Management
Experience In It Service & Application Management
Experience In Process Management (Bpmn)
Experience In Enterprise Architecture Management
Good Understanding Of It Architectures And Their Secure Operation, As Well As Working With Modeling Tools And Using Them In Design Documents
Experience In Design (Ooa/Ood) & Development (Procedural, Script, Oo, 4gl Languages) Of Complex It Systems And Their Interfaces, As Well As Standard Systems Such As Cms, Dms, Erp, Crm

Languages

German

Native

English

Intermediate

Education

Sep 2002 - Oct 2009

FH Wiesbaden

Diploma · General Computer Science · Wiesbaden, Germany · 2.4

Wirtschafts-Gymnasium Friedrich-List

University entrance qualification · Wiesbaden, Germany · 2.5

Certifications & licenses

Agile Coach

Agile Heroes, IHK certified

OKR Coach

Agile Heroes, IHK certified

Agile SAFe

Agile Heroes

Agile Product Owner

Agile Heroes

iSQI

Agile Heroes

NewHorizons

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 19

Experience in Government and Administration 5.5 y

Avg length 9 m

Longest experience 4 y 6 m

Global experience

Countries worked in 1 (Germany)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Senior Solution Architect, Senior Solution Manager, IT Consultant (Role: IT Product Manager)

Main industries Government and Administration, Aerospace and Defense, Healthcare

Main business areas Information Technology, Project Management, Operations

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor

Certifications earned 8

Profile

Member since

July 2026

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Alexander is based in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Alexander speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Intermediate).

Alexander has at least 15 years of experience. During this time, Alexander has worked in at least 17 different roles and for 17 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months. Note that Alexander may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Alexander would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior Solution Architect, Senior Solution Manager, IT Consultant (Role: IT Product Manager).

Alexander's most recent position is Senior Solution Architect at IT.NRW - The IT service provider of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In recent years, Alexander has worked for IT.NRW - The IT service provider of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and BWI - The IT provider of the FEDERAL ARMED FORCES - Bundeswehr / Federal Ministry of Defence.

Alexander is most experienced in industries like Government and Administration, Aerospace and Defense, and Healthcare. Alexander also has some experience in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Tourism.

Alexander is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Operations. Alexander also has some experience in Product Development, Procurement, and Strategy.

Alexander has recently worked in industries like Government and Administration and Aerospace and Defense.

Alexander has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Procurement.

Alexander holds a Bachelor in General Computer Science from FH Wiesbaden.

Alexander has 8 certificates. Among them, these include: Agile Coach, OKR Coach, and Agile SAFe.

Alexander is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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