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Alexander Petitjean-Dipl.-Inf.(FH)

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Baden-Baden, Germany

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Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

Senior Solution Architect

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

Position Summary
Senior Solution Architect at IT.NRW - The IT service provider of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Industries
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Information Technology
Strategy
  • 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

Senior Solution Manager

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

Position Summary
Senior Solution Manager at BWI - The IT provider of the FEDERAL ARMED FORCES - Bundeswehr / Federal Ministry of Defence
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Procurement
Product Development
Project Management
  • 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

IT Consultant (Role: IT Product Manager)

Deutsche Bahn Group - DB Schenker

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: IT Product Manager) at Deutsche Bahn Group - DB Schenker
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Information Technology
Logistics
Product Development
Project Management
  • 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

IT Consultant (Role: Software Engineer)

REWE Group - DER Touristik Online GmbH

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: Software Engineer) at REWE Group - DER Touristik Online GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Tourism
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Support in migrating the existing eCommerce platforms (DERtour.de, meiersweltreisen.de) to a new CMS (Magnolia), JavaScript tech stack)
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018

IT Consultant (Role: IT Service Manager)

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

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: IT Service Manager) at Coface Versicherung - Compagnie Française d'Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur SA
Industries
Insurance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
  • 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

IT Consultant (Role: IT Business Analyst)

GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: IT Business Analyst) at GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Industries
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Creation of a requirements specification for the new solution "international room booking system of GIZ"
  • Temporary project support, completed project
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

IT Consultant (Role: IT Service Manager)

Aareal Bank AG

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: IT Service Manager) at Aareal Bank AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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

IT Consultant (Role: Software Engineer, Product Owner)

UDG - United Digital Group

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: Software Engineer, Product Owner) at UDG - United Digital Group
Industries
Retail
Tourism
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • 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

IT Consultant (Role: IT Architect)

Stadt Frankfurt am Main

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: IT Architect) at Stadt Frankfurt am Main
Industries
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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

IT Consultant (Role: IT Architect)

Hahn Air Lines

Position Summary
IT Consultant (Role: IT Architect) at Hahn Air Lines
Industries
Tourism
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • 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

IT Consultant (role: IT Business Analyst)

Lufthansa Group - handling counts GmbH

Position Summary
IT Consultant (role: IT Business Analyst) at Lufthansa Group - handling counts GmbH
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
Strategy
  • 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

IT Consultant (role: IT Management Consultant)

Kegon AG

Position Summary
IT Consultant (role: IT Management Consultant) at Kegon AG
Industries
Healthcare
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Strategy
  • 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

Software Engineer

Kassenzahnärztliche Vereinigung Hessen

Position Summary
Software Engineer at Kassenzahnärztliche Vereinigung Hessen
Industries
Healthcare
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
  • 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

Software Engineer & IT Business Analyst & IT Project Manager

Thomas Cook AG

Position Summary
Software Engineer & IT Business Analyst & IT Project Manager at Thomas Cook AG
Industries
Information Technology
Tourism
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • 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

Software & Requirements Engineer (graduate, full-time)

Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH

Position Summary
Software & Requirements Engineer (graduate, full-time) at Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • 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

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

Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH

Position Summary
Software & Requirements Engineer (student worker - 20h part-time) at Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Product Development
  • 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

Software & Requirements Engineer (intern - full-time)

Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH

Position Summary
Software & Requirements Engineer (intern - full-time) at Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Product Development
  • Requirements Engineering & Software Engineering for the COMPAS application (C++ - Qt4)
  • Prototype solution development: pilot retraining plan (Crew Operation Planning)
Jul 2005 - Feb 2008
Mainz, Germany

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

University Medical Center Mainz - Trauma Surgery

Position Summary
IT Team Lead (student worker - 20h part-time) at University Medical Center Mainz - Trauma Surgery
Industries
Healthcare
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • 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

IT Service Manager (intern - full-time)

DekaBank

Position Summary
IT Service Manager (intern - full-time) at DekaBank
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
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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
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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

IT Requirements Engineer IREB CPRE

iSQI

Agile Scrum Master

Agile Heroes

IT Project Management Prince2

NewHorizons

IT Service Management ITIL V3

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

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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.

Alexander's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.

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