Daniel (Sarbacher) Sarbacher-Senior Project and Transformation Manager
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Technical Project Manager
Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba) / WIBank
- Digitalization and modernization of business-critical funding processes and customer portals*
Steering several successive digitalization and transformation initiatives – from preliminary analysis and quality gates to technical implementation and release planning.
Responsibilities
- Overall steering of multiple digitalization initiatives
- Project planning, roadmaps, and quality gates
- Coordination of business units, IT, and service providers
- Risk, schedule, and stakeholder management
- Management reporting
Project focus
- Digitalization of funding processes
- Modernization of the WIBank customer portal
- Release planning
- Electronic identification
- GAP-23 reporting
Value added
- Responsibility for the full project lifecycle and creation of transparent decision-making foundations for management and project committees.
Multi-Project Manager / Agile Coach
SWARCO AG
Steering a project portfolio with around 50 development projects and supporting the agile transformation of software development in the traffic management systems area.
Challenge
- Responsibility for planning, prioritizing, and steering a project portfolio with around 50 parallel development projects across three product lines. Transformation of the project organization from traditional approaches to agile methods while projects were still running.
Responsibilities
- Steering and prioritizing a project portfolio with around 50 projects
- Development of roadmaps and cross-project planning and steering processes
- Introduction of Kanban and Scrum
- Coaching project managers and development teams
- Facilitating prioritization, replenishment, and review meetings
- Management reporting including project progress, risks, and decision papers
- Development of a standardized approach model for future projects
Project focus
- Multi-project management
- Agile transformation
- Portfolio and prioritization management
- Scrum & Kanban
- Management reporting
- Coaching and workshop facilitation
Value added
- Creation of transparent project structures and a consistent project portfolio management approach across three product lines. Successful support of the move to agile ways of working and clear improvement in prioritization, transparency, and management steering.
Program Manager
atruvia AG
Replacement of two business-critical in-house developments in the area of Riester pension and introduction of two standard software solutions. Responsibility for planning, steering, and implementing a multi-year transformation program while business operations continued.
Challenge
- Replacement of two business-critical in-house developments in the area of Riester pension by introducing two standard software solutions. Responsibility for planning, steering, and implementing a multi-year transformation program while business operations continued.
Responsibilities
- Overall steering of the transformation program
- Coordination of several sub-projects
- Steering cross-functional project teams and external service providers
- Governance, management reporting, and steering committees
- Stakeholder management up to management level
- Risk and escalation management
- Planning and steering of migration, testing, go-live, and transition
Project focus
- Program management
- Business analysis
- Standard software implementation
- Migration
- Stakeholder management at management and decision-making level
- Go-live & transition
Value added
- Successful steering of a complex transformation program across the full project lifecycle – from strategy development through business analysis and implementation to a successful go-live.
Project Manager | Change Manager | Product Owner | Scrum Master
diva-e Digital Value Enterprise GmbH
- Support for complex digitalization projects and transformation from traditional to agile project organizations*
Challenge
- Building and developing a project team and supporting the company's transformation into an agile organization. Development of standardized delivery models and introduction of agile methods in customer projects while project business was still running.
Responsibilities
- Leading complex customer projects in the media and financial services sectors
- Taking on the roles of change manager, project manager, product owner, and Scrum Master
- Introducing agile delivery models
- Coaching project teams and facilitating workshops
- Steering releases, backlogs, and project planning
- Stakeholder management and close collaboration with business units and IT
- Planning and implementing organizational change
Project focus
- Agile transformation
- Change management
- Product ownership
- Scrum & Kanban
- Release management
- Workshop facilitation
Sample projects (selection)
- Technical relaunch of ProSieben.de
- Introduction of a content management system (CMS) for the Heise developer portal
- Implementation of legal requirements related to capital gains tax
- Transformation of a large project from waterfall to Scrum
- Product ownership in the area of church tax
Value added
- Successful combination of classic project management, change management, and agile methods. Sustainable improvement of collaboration between business units and IT, as well as successful support of organizational change and demanding digitalization projects.
Senior Project and Program Manager
NTT DATA Deutschland SE
- Design and implementation of business-critical banking applications and continuous development from software developer to project and program manager.*
Challenge
- Planning and implementation of complex software development and transformation projects in the banking and financial services environment. Development of business-critical applications for international payments, cash management, securities trading, and banking workplace systems. Continuous assumption of growing leadership and project responsibilities up to program management.
Responsibilities
- Leading complex IT projects and programs in the banking and financial services environment
- Technical project management for business-critical banking applications
- Building and leading development and consulting teams with revenue responsibility
- Introduction of modern software architectures and component-based applications
- Steering software development, quality assurance, and release planning
- Stakeholder management and coordination of cross-functional project teams
- Introduction of business-critical solutions at the customer and transition into regular operations
Project focus
- Program management
- Project management
- Software development & software architecture
- Payments & cash management
- Fixed-income trading systems
- Banking workplace systems
Sample projects (selection)
- Development of new applications for international payments
- Introduction of a cash management system
- Component-based online trading system for fixed-income products
- Development of a banking workplace system
- Introduction of modern software architectures in the banking environment
Value added
- Building a strong technical and business foundation in the banking environment, as well as continuous development from software developer to technical project manager and senior project and program manager. Successful combination of technical expertise, project management, and leadership responsibility as the basis for leading complex transformation programs.
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Media and Entertainment.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development, Operations, and Strategy.
Summary
More than 30 years of experience in successfully leading complex IT transformation, digitalization, and migration programs.
I bring business, IT, and management together to deliver successful transformation projects – from strategy to a successful go-live.
Senior Project and Transformation Manager (PMP) with more than 30 years of experience in successfully planning, steering, and implementing complex IT transformation, digitalization, software rollout, and migration initiatives.
I support companies in implementing business-critical change in a structured and sustainable way – from strategy development and business analysis to software selection, project steering, and implementation, all the way through migration, go-live, and transition into regular operations.
In doing so, I connect business, IT, management, and external partners around a common project goal and create transparency around objectives, dependencies, risks, and decisions. My focus is on reliable collaboration, clear decision-making structures, and the successful delivery of complex programs and projects.
Skills
Leadership Of Complex Programs And Transformation Projects
Connecting Business, It, And Management
Business Analysis And Product Ownership
Steering Cross-Functional Teams And External Service Providers
Governance, Risk, And Escalation Management
Preparation And Facilitation Of Steering Committees
Management Reporting And Decision Support
Program Management
Pmo
Governance
Risk And Escalation Management
Steering Committees
Requirements Engineering
Product Ownership
Process Optimization
Workshop Facilitation
Digitalization
Software Implementation
Migration
Go-Live
Stakeholder Management
Vendor & Service Provider Management
Management Reporting & Decision Support
Leadership Of Cross-Functional Project Teams
Pmp
Scrum
Kanban
Jira
Confluence
Ms Project
Sharepoint
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