Florian E.-Senior Business Analyst & Strategic IT Consultant
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Experience
Business Analyst - Media IT
Comcast / NBCUniversal
- Led comprehensive global coordination and international stakeholder management for major cross-functional technology integrations.
- Drove process analysis, requirements engineering, and technical documentation to align multiple international departments.
CEO / Strategic Architect & Managing Director
Nlevel
- Leads Nlevel as a strategic technology company creating a fail-safe, hyper-efficient, modular and software-defined energy routing standard for global energy distribution.
- Defines and drives the business model as the "ARM of energy," licensing a foundational patent and open standard under FRAND terms to an ecosystem of partners.
- Shapes market positioning and go-to-market strategy focused on winning the most demanding early markets and building a multi-trillion dollar foundation in the energy infrastructure space.
- Oversees fundraising strategy and planning, including a 24-month plan to market with a pre-seed funding ask of €38 million.
- Allocates planned use of funds with focus on team building, lab and hardware development, partnership and IP development, and operations/contingency.
- Sets goals to deliver a validated, serially producible core module and to launch the first pilot deployment.
- Brings strategic and operational experience from previous roles at VW, Siemens and Comcast, with expertise in scaling complex technology and building partner ecosystems.
- Leads the development of a complex, software-defined energy routing architecture (Hardware/Software Co-Design) utilizing swarm intelligence.
- Manages highly technical stakeholder negotiations (Hyperscalers, ODMs) and defines system architecture specifications for deep-tech infrastructure.
Senior Business Analyst - Automotive & Railway Infrastructure
Siemens
- Analyzed actual status of railway IT systems, conceptualized technical measures, and provided strategic recommendations for action.
Senior Business Analyst - Automotive & Railway Infrastructure
Volkswagen
- Conducted actual status analysis, requirements engineering, and backlog consulting for digital infrastructure projects.
Business Analyst - Publishing & Cloud IT
Greenbaum Cloud
- Conducted technology research, evaluated hardware/software, and defined industry best practices for global cloud infrastructure procurement.
Business Analyst - Publishing & Cloud IT
OMNIScriptum
- Eliminated severe bottlenecks in OCR workflows processing 1 million PDFs via thorough analysis and expert sourcing. Initiated and implemented a fully automated translation pipeline into 16 languages.
Independent Consultant / Interim Manager
Executing strategic IT mandates for family offices, mid-sized corporates, and PE firms.
- Tech Due Diligence: Conducted comprehensive architecture and code audits for M&A transactions (€20M-€200M range), quantifying technical debt and integration risks in hard euros.
- AI & Data Strategy: Advised on the secure implementation of LLMs and RAG architectures, ensuring compliance with the EU AI Act and GDPR.
- Business Process Optimization: Translated complex business needs into clear, actionable technical roadmaps and managed group-level coordination across finance, legal, and IT.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Energy, Utilities, Media and Entertainment, Automotive, and Information Technology.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Finance, Product Development, Strategy, Procurement, and Research and Development.
Summary
Strategic Architect | M&A Due Diligence, AI Integration & Venture Scaling
I support companies as a consultant for strategic scaling, AI integration and tech architecture. At the same time, as CEO, I am building the deep-tech venture Nlevel (€38M investment target, patent WO2022223494A1).
Nlevel is my current investment project, through which I gain valuable daily insights into scaling complex technologies. I bring this current “builder experience,” along with the know-how I gained at VW, Siemens and Comcast, directly to your projects.
I bring this experience directly to your M&A work: I can quickly tell whether a target company is set up with a future-ready modular structure or whether we are buying expensive, proprietary legacy IT.
My areas of focus:
- IT Due Diligence & M&A: Analysis of technical debt, architecture assessment and management of post-merger integration (PMI).
- AI & Automation: Implementation of AI solutions (Azure/OpenAI) under strict governance and compliance requirements.
- Strategic Scaling: Transformation of monolithic systems into modular, scalable platforms. For details on my methods for transformation projects, see my CV (Florian_Engel_2026.pdf, page 2: Reference Case Change Management & AI).
Venture Architecture work sample: The attached file Arbeitsprobe_Venture_Architecture_Florian_Engel_Nlevel.pdf provides
specific insights into how I work:
- Slide 4 (Requirements Eng.): Turning deep-tech physics into business models.
- Slide 6 (Venture Architecture): Global scaling of patents and ecosystems. I offer practical solutions—not theory—for technical bottlenecks and AI architectures.
Interested in a conversation? Simply book a time directly (in person or by video) at: [link] If you would like to use your own video system, please book a slot on my page and send me the invitation afterward.
Best regards, Florian Engel Tel. 0176 405 8 1414 Whatsapp 015773766907 [link]
Skills
- Comprehensive Global Coordination
- Process Analysis
- Requirements Engineering
- Documentation
- International Stakeholder Management
- Lead Projects Or Companies
- Work Closely With International Stakeholders
- Evaluate Business Processes
- Identify And Develop Potential For Improvement
- Analyse Requirements
- Implement Solutions
- Technology Research
- Procurement
- Compliance For Financial Institutions
- Built Up Start-Up Company From Scratch
- Implement All Processes
- Full Technical Responsibility For Broadcast Operation
- Editing
- Tv Producing
- Over 5 Years Of Hands-On Experience As A Business Analyst At Large Corporations.
- Over 10 Years Of Experience In Senior It Roles At Medium-Sized Companies.
- Creation Of Epics For Developing Business Plans.
- Process Analysis (Analysing How Processes Are Carried Out And How They Can Be Captured In Jira).
- Implementation In A Scrum Team.
- Skilled In Stakeholder Management.
- Successfully Introduced A New Software Update Process Model Across Multiple Brands In Digital Lifecycle Management.
- Ability To Quickly Learn How To Use Various It Application Systems And Get Up To Speed In Unfamiliar Business Areas.
- Able To Bring Teams On Board Through Interviews, Training And Dialogue.
- Removing Bottlenecks Through Analysis And Expert Sourcing.
- M&A Tech Due Diligence
- Enterprise Ai Strategy (Eu Ai Act, Rag)
- Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture
- Technical Project Leadership
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Experience
Global experience
Expertise
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Florian is based in Cologne, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Florian speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).
Florian has at least 9 years of experience. During this time, Florian has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 6 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months. Note that Florian may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Florian would be well-suited for roles such as: Business Analyst - Media IT, CEO / Strategic Architect & Managing Director, Senior Business Analyst - Automotive & Railway Infrastructure.
Florian's most recent position is Business Analyst - Media IT at Comcast / NBCUniversal.
In recent years, Florian has worked for Comcast / NBCUniversal, Nlevel, Siemens, Volkswagen, and Greenbaum Cloud.
Florian is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Energy, and Utilities. Florian also has some experience in Media and Entertainment, Automotive, and Information Technology.
Florian is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Finance, and Product Development. Florian also has some experience in Strategy, Procurement, and Research and Development.
Florian has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Energy, and Utilities.
Florian has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Finance, and Product Development.
Florian is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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