Michael P.-Delivery Lead | IT Implementation & Strategic Requirements Engineering
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Experience
Independent IT Consultant
Vamico GmbH
- Provided targeted consulting and support on IT delivery and integration topics.
- Designed, implemented and operated own software products (Rendita, vailuate) independently: requirements, architecture, testing, releases and ongoing development, implemented with AI support.
- Ongoing learning in AI, mainly through hands-on work with LLMs: API integration, agentic workflows with automated evaluation, Model Context Protocol; supported academically through the MSc study program in AI Transformation.
Transformation Lead
Hypo Tirol Bank AG
Portfolio analysis and migration roadmap:
- Delivered what several previous attempts had failed to achieve: fully analyzed and risk-classified around 360 HCL Notes databases, including previously unidentified edge cases, and assigned them to five target platforms (Workflow Engine, MS Teams, SharePoint, ITSM, Custom Solutions)—approved by management as a basis for decision-making.
Target architecture and modernization plan:
- Developed the architecture strategy to consolidate over 50% of applications into a central Workflow Engine and defined the requirements for a long-term reduction in ongoing service costs (external hosting and support).
Program governance and setup:
- Set up roadmap, backlog and stakeholder structures, as well as central project documentation for the bank-wide Notes replacement program.
Product Owner
Erste Digital
Requirements management for certificate issuance:
- Gathered the business area's requirements and translated them into actionable specifications for an agile team of 3 developers; established predictable development processes for the certificate issuance solution.
Service stabilization and incident management:
- Established structured error feedback for failed automated processes and known error documentation, shortening issue analysis and resolution in close coordination with related IT Solutions teams.
Delivery Lead
bank99 AG
Transformation & team leadership:
- Led a major transformation as part of a core banking migration and data center merger under regulatory pressure, managing a cross-functional team of 12 people (development, testing, requirements engineering) across several parallel business-critical topics.
Document migration from S3 to Accenture DMS:
- End-to-end responsibility for migrating 12 million documents, including KBX metadata, without data loss; export, metadata extraction and mapping were almost fully automated, and development and test teams were coordinated via Azure DevOps.
Protection Workflow Engine:
- Designed and led the implementation of a fully automated microservice for credit insurance with 14 workflows; defined the required source data from the data warehouse (Exasol), the bidirectional REST connection to an external insurance partner and the internal ESB, including a web tool for processing staff.
CBS data mapping and matching:
- Mapped customer, account and block data between heterogeneous core banking models (Accenture vs. ING Orange Lion), resolved structural model differences (e.g. 3 vs. 15 salutation codes) and validated data integrity.
PSD2 migration:
- Replaced an internal payment service with a third-party provider; managed API governance, created technical blueprints and led end-to-end testing.
Mail parser (Intelligent Data Processing):
- Designed a mail parser with fuzzy logic extraction for automated data transfer via middleware and fewer manual processing steps.
Customer letter delivery via ESB:
- Designed a central web tool for bank-wide document delivery via the Digital Backbone, built to support all future letter categories.
Tiger Team (Critical Delivery):
- Led an expert task force to resolve highly complex implementation hurdles in the core banking system under tight deadlines; took on, among other things, the correction of automated workflow processing and short-notice updates to regulatory reports (LCR) that other teams could not complete due to lack of expertise.
Regulatory Delivery Lead
ING-DiBa Direktbank Austria
Deposit guarantee, regulatory data export:
- Defined and managed implementation of the deposit guarantee file exporter as part of the legal merger; consolidated customer data from the ING core banking system and handed it over to Accenture for import into the bank99 core banking system. Met the regulatory merger deadline of 31.12.2021.
AWWPI Regulatory Reporting:
- Defined and managed the data export for the AuRep report; analyzed and mapped relevant data fields from heterogeneous source systems and managed development of the exporter according to the required file format.
Workshops & assurance:
- Ran workshops with the business area, Compliance and IT, and ensured audit-relevant requirements were covered through structured test validation and traceability.
Service Transition Manager
Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI)
Incident Synchronization BMI / BRZ:
- Designed a cross-agency framework for the automated exchange of incident tickets between BMI (Jira) and BRZ (BMC Remedy), and defined processes, handover criteria, and interface requirements.
eID Service Management Framework:
- Defined service boundaries and operational responsibilities between BMI (ZMR as the core system and data provider) and BRZ (frontend / backend of the eID solution), and created a service catalog, operations manual, and product handover criteria.
Service Delivery Manager
Volksbank Wien AG
- Built an IT service catalog with 90+ services from scratch
- Managed the external IT provider (ARZ) against SLOs and KPIs
- EBA-/PSD2-compliant incident reporting (DORA predecessor)
- Audited and classified 400+ Notes databases
Team Lead Solution Management
Erste Group IT
- Built a 6-member team for compliance and integration solutions (CEE)
- Created roadmaps for AML, GRC, and OpRisk solutions
- Owned the architecture for core banking system / compliance integration
- Managed international software partners from the UK and Germany for incidents, changes, and PoCs
- Contributed to tenders and vendor selection as an IT decision-maker
- Managed budgets at three levels and nearshore teams
Project Manager Enterprise Monitoring
Erste Group IT
- Led the company-wide replacement and introduction of IT infrastructure monitoring for >3.500 systems (core team of 20)
- Created dashboards for IT and business teams with a gamification approach, enabling IT departments to measure themselves on coverage and quality
- Increased coverage from 10% to 90% and trained 40+ Solution Managers
Solution Manager
sIT Solutions
- Automated testing by designing and developing a regression test framework
- DevOps management and process automation
- Product Owner for Calypso interfaces and back office
- Application management for trading platforms
- Middleware architecture (IBM MQ, UC4 Automic)
Solution Architect
iT-AUSTRIA
- Insourcing and consolidation of a stock trading company's IT infrastructure into the corporate group, including data center relocation and virtualization
- Technical migration of core banking platform components
- Design and implementation of the Change & Release Management platform
Systems Engineer
ecetra / brokerjet
- Architecture and operation of trading systems (J2EE)
- Responsibility for all IT operations in the data center
- Set up and managed end-to-end monitoring
- Introduced ITIL-based service management
- Core banking system TCS Quartz/BaNCS with ongoing onshore/offshore collaboration
Industry experience
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Insurance, Professional Services, and Government and Administration.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development, Audit, Quality Assurance, and Procurement.
Summary
Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner with over 20 years of banking IT experience, including work for bank99, Erste Group, ING, Volksbank and Hypo Tirol. Focus: core banking migrations, legacy replacement and regulatory projects under tight deadlines—from analyzing complex system landscapes to approved implementation and operational handover. Led delivery teams of up to 12 people across parallel business-critical topics, with budget responsibility and reporting to steering committees. Works closely with the team and steps in where progress stalls—made possible by a technical background in operations, architecture and system integration. Uses LLM-assisted requirements analysis in production.
- Process automation & risk reduction: Migrated 12 million documents, including metadata, without data loss; extraction, metadata handling and mapping were almost fully automated (bank99).
- Target architecture & legacy replacement: Delivered a Notes replacement strategy after several previous attempts had failed; approved by management as the basis for consolidating over 50% of applications (Hypo Tirol).
- Workflows & automation: Fully automated a credit insurance engine with 14 workflows, including bidirectional REST and ESB integration (Protection Workflow Engine, bank99).
- Regulatory delivery under pressure: Met the regulatory deposit guarantee deadline of 31.12. as part of a legal merger (ING).
- Test automation and quality assurance: Led test automation in a trading system environment (Calypso) and set up DevOps processes (sIT Solutions).
- AI in practice: Launched two independent AI-powered applications without a development team (vailuate RegTech-SaaS, Rendita Mobile App); also designed a mail parser with fuzzy logic extraction for automated data transfer (bank99).
Skills
Requirements Engineering & Product Ownership
- Requirements Engineering
- Technical Business Analysis
- Business Requirements
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Backlog Management
- Prioritization
- Stakeholder Management
- Workshop Facilitation
- Test Cases And Acceptance Criteria
- Issue Analysis During Testing And Operations
Delivery, Budget & Governance
- Initiatives From Idea To Go-Live
- Schedule And Risk Management
- Project, Initiative And Department Budgets
- Effort Estimation
- Status Reporting To Management And Steering Committees
- Escalation Management
- Vendor Management
Automation, Workflows & Ai
- Process And Workflow Automation
- Process Modeling
- Microservice Workflows
- System Integration (Rest / Json, Esb)
- Assessment Of Modernization And Ai Opportunities
- Llm- And Ai-Assisted Requirements Analysis
- Ai-Assisted Test Case Creation And Automated Evaluation
- Fuzzy Logic Data Extraction
Banking & Regulatory It
- Core Banking
- Bank Merger / Post-Merger Integration
- Regulatory Reporting
- Deposit Guarantee Schemes
- Psd2 / Eba
- Dora
- Fida
- Risk Classification
- Compliance-Related It Implementation
- Auditability
Migration & Integration
- Data Migration
- Document Migration
- Data Mapping
- Data Modeling (Sql)
- Rest / Json Apis
- Microservices
- Esb / Ipaas
- Technical Validation (Postman)
- System Integration
Methods & Governance
- Traditional, Agile And Hybrid
- Pmp
- Scrum
- Safe
- Kanban
- Bpmn 2.0
- Uml
- Sdlc
- Bdd / Tdd
- Itsm / Service Management
- Process Documentation
Project Delivery & Collaboration
- Ms Project
- Microsoft Planner
- Jira
- Confluence
- Sharepoint
- Azure Devops
- Miro
- Git
Architecture & Integration
- Linux/Unix
- Oracle
- Sql (Data Modeling And Analysis)
- Host Data Feeds And Extraction
- Tibco
- Rest Apis
- Microservices
- Ibm Mq
- Esb
- Postman
Itsm & Operations
- Bmc Remedy
- Adonis (Process Modeling)
- Icinga (Infrastructure And Application Monitoring)
- Request Tracker
- Servicenow
Automation & Ai
- Llm Integration (Openai, Anthropic Apis)
- Model Context Protocol (Mcp)
- Microsoft Copilot
- N8n Workflow Automation
- Python And Javascript For Prototypes And Automation Scripts (Ai-Assisted)
- Ai-Assisted Requirements Analysis
- Fuzzy Logic Extraction
Languages
Education
Uni Krems
MSc · AI Transformation · Krems an der Donau, Austria
Universität Wien
B.B.A. · Business Administration · Vienna, Austria
HBLVA Wien V
Ing. · Software Engineering · Vienna, Austria
Certifications & licenses
AI Service Design & Innovation
Uni Krems
Sparkassen Treasury Cyber*School
Erste Group Finanzakademie
Senior Management
Open University
AI4RE - AI for Requirements Engineering
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Databricks Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
OMG BPM 2 Professional
PSM II
PSPO II
ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA)
Sparx Enterprise Architect
TOGAF® Certified
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Qualifications
Frequently asked questions
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Michael is based in Vienna, Austria and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Michael speaks the following languages: German (Native), Russian (Native), English (Advanced).
Michael has at least 25 years of experience. During this time, Michael has worked in at least 12 different roles and for 11 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 1 month. Note that Michael may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Michael would be well-suited for roles such as: Independent IT Consultant, Transformation Lead, Product Owner.
Michael's most recent position is Independent IT Consultant at Vamico GmbH.
In recent years, Michael has worked for Vamico GmbH, Hypo Tirol Bank AG, Erste Digital, bank99 AG, and ING-DiBa Direktbank Austria.
Michael is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Insurance. Michael also has some experience in Government and Administration and Professional Services.
Michael is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development. Michael also has some experience in Audit, Quality Assurance, and Procurement.
Michael has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Insurance, and Information Technology.
Michael has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.
Michael holds a Master in AI Transformation from Uni Krems and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Universität Wien.
Michael has 20 certificates. Among them, these include: AI Service Design & Innovation, Sparkassen Treasury Cyber*School, and Senior Management.
Michael is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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