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Roman Gubarev

Integration Project Manager for a new core banking system for financing

Roman Gubarev
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Kirchheim bei München, Germany

Experience

Jun 2022 - Dec 2025
3 years 7 months
Braunschweig, Germany
Hybrid

Integration Project Manager for a new core banking system for financing

Volkswagen Financial Services / Leogy GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Integration Project Manager for a new core banking system for financing at Volkswagen Financial Services / Leogy GmbH
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management

Business context:

  • Release 1 – direct banking (consumer loans, vehicle financing)
  • Integration with a newly developed VWFS customer frontend (checkout)
  • Integration with the Check24 portal
  • Release 2 – vehicle financing through VW Group dealers
  • Integration with the existing dealer system for document submission
  • Adaptation of the document processing workflow in the new core banking system
  • Integration with the vehicle documents management system
  • Integration with a dealer information system

Tasks and responsibilities

  • Integration interface between the project developing the new core system and the systems being integrated
  • Coordination of integration scenarios, interface content and their technical implementation
  • Specification of business and technical requirements for the relevant interfaces
  • Planning and tracking of implementation by service providers/development teams
  • Management of testing activities, test execution and defect resolution tracking
  • Status reporting to stakeholders and program management

Skills and technologies

  • Project management, requirements analysis, test management, testing, reporting, stakeholder management
  • VTXRM Accipiens, SmartFIX, Jira, Confluence, HP ALM
  • APIs, REST, SOAP, OpenAPI, XML, JSON
Dec 2021 - May 2022
6 months

Lead Agile Management Office

BMW Group / Berylls

Expertise details
Position Summary
Lead Agile Management Office at BMW Group / Berylls
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Team leadership of the Agile Management Office for a cross-functional program

  • Automotive e-commerce program to increase online vehicle sales

  • Structuring program control including the requirements management process

  • Setting up a unified Jira structure for the program and all subprojects including backlog governance

  • Tracking implementation of requirements and set goals / escalating in case of deviations

  • Committee management

  • Preparation, execution and follow-up of cross-functional quarterly planning, updating the program roadmap

  • Status reporting of results to stakeholders from the respective business/IT departments

  • Agile software development

  • Project Management Office (PMO)

  • Requirements management

  • Reporting

  • Stakeholder management

  • Jira

  • Confluence

  • Advanced Roadmap

May 2021 - Dec 2021
8 months

Project lead for cloud migration of production planning software

BMW Group

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project lead for cloud migration of production planning software at BMW Group
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Migration of middleware software for data preparation for production planning

  • Migration of 20 applications from OpenShift on-premises cloud to MS Azure public cloud

  • Project lead for the migration of 20 applications

  • Design and development of a future system architecture, considering new requirements and adapting to the new platform, e.g., Kafka topics and Azure components

  • Coordination of the development team and service provider, tracking project implementation and monitoring timely achievement of goals

  • Establishment of a project plan in coordination with the product owner and other feature teams or interface partners

  • Stakeholder management

  • Vendor management

  • Project leadership

  • Project management

  • Agile software development

  • Requirements management

  • Vendor management

  • Reporting

  • Stakeholder management

  • Red Hat OpenShift

  • MS Azure

  • Kubernetes

  • Kafka

  • PostgreSQL

  • Jira

  • Confluence

Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
8 months

Test automation for myAudi portal

Audi / Vision EC

Expertise details
Position Summary
Test automation for myAudi portal at Audi / Vision EC
Industries
Automotive
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Quality Assurance
  • Operation and enhancement of a platform for continuous automated end-to-end tests of the myAudi portal

  • Continuous live monitoring of the availability of connected features (connected services) in the vehicle

  • Coordination and operations of automated tests for the myAudi portal

  • TestOps/DevOps for the automation framework and continuous testing

  • Coordination and implementation of integrating new vehicle generations into continuous live monitoring (vehicle simulator/vehicle racks)

  • Automated test data management including creation, cleanup and deletion for users and vehicles

  • Weekly reporting of test results to senior management

  • TestOps

  • DevOps

  • Requirements analysis

  • Test automation

  • Reporting

  • Stakeholder management

  • Python

  • PyCharm

  • Jenkins

  • Jira

  • Git

  • Selenium

  • Kibana

  • MQTT

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
6 months

Technical project manager for IDnow AutoIdent

IDnow GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Technical project manager for IDnow AutoIdent at IDnow GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Customer Service
Project Management
  • Integration of IDnow's AI-based KYC product AutoIdent for major clients

  • Support of existing customers in operating and using IDnow products in the Customer Success team

  • Project management for integrating IDnow products at major clients

  • Advising customers on process digitization using IDnow innovations

  • Requirements management during the integration process

  • Ensuring successful integration of IDnow products

  • Supporting integrated customers with technical or process-related questions about IDnow products

  • Advising on internal IDnow processes to optimize and enhance customer satisfaction

  • Project management

  • Customer success

  • Integration

  • Reporting

  • Stakeholder management

  • Artificial intelligence

  • Know Your Customer (KYC)

  • REST APIs

  • Android & iOS apps and SDK

  • Jira

  • Confluence

  • Git

  • GitHub

  • XML

  • IntelliJ IDEA

  • DWH

  • Tableau

  • Graylog

Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
3 months

Team Lead Radar Object Detection

Continental / MegaPart GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Team Lead Radar Object Detection at Continental / MegaPart GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Product Development
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Analysis of the object detection performance in a new radar system

  • KPI measurement of the object detection feature to enable comparison with other systems

  • Team leadership – directing, planning and coordinating team activities

  • Communication bridge head between Continental and the MegaPart team

  • Requirements analysis and management for object detection

  • Definition of KPIs based on a reference sensor (false positive and false negative rates, field of view, etc.)

  • Maintaining test cases in DOORS

  • Implementing test cases and extending the test framework

  • Executing tests on high-performance computers and visualizing and evaluating results

  • Team leadership

  • Radar sensor

  • Test automation

  • Automotive SPICE

  • Lean

  • Kanban

  • Python

  • Pandas

  • XML

  • PyCharm

  • DOORS

  • Git

  • GitHub Enterprise

Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
7 months

Test Automation of Camera-Based Driver Assistance Systems

Continental / FERCHAU

Expertise details
Position Summary
Test Automation of Camera-Based Driver Assistance Systems at Continental / FERCHAU
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Automating currently manual tests of camera-based driver assistance systems

  • Integrating and controlling hardware-in-the-loop setups for automated tests

  • Requirements analysis and inventory of manual and automated tests

  • Developing strategy proposals for test automation (system test)

  • Extending the test automation framework

  • Implementing test case templates

  • Supporting the implementation of in-depth test cases

  • Integrating test automation in a HiL environment into the continuous integration system

  • Test automation

  • Automotive SPICE

  • Hardware-in-the-loop (HiL)

  • CANoe

  • Python

  • OpenCV

  • Vector Tools

  • Confluence

  • Jira

  • CI/CD

  • Jenkins

  • PTC Integrity

  • XML

  • DOORS

Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
1 year 6 months

Project Lead for the New Development of B2V Voice Backend

BMW Group / NTT Data

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Lead for the New Development of B2V Voice Backend at BMW Group / NTT Data
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Managing all voice connections between the vehicle and backend, as well as their routing to call centers in the B2V Voice Backend

  • Process optimization, splitting applications into microservices, and redeveloping on a modern platform

  • Project management of the new development of the B2V Voice Backend throughout the entire project lifecycle, including resource and budget planning as well as controlling

  • Requirements analysis based on the existing system, as well as optimizing and integrating new requirements in alignment with business units

  • Supporting and approving the design of new systems based on new architecture guidelines

  • Steering the development partner during the implementation phase

  • Planning releases with business units and other backend components

  • Ensuring test coverage through automated and manual tests

  • Coordinating tests and defect management as part of the validation of new systems/functions, including vehicle tests worldwide

  • Worldwide deployment of the new applications

  • Data migration and rollout of the new backend systems

  • Project leadership

  • Project management

  • Requirements management

  • Release planning

  • Design

  • Agile software development

  • IT architecture

  • Test management

  • Migration

  • Rollout

  • BMW ITPM

  • HP ALM

  • ITIL/ITSM

  • Remedy

  • Jira

  • Confluence

  • Asterisk

  • Dynatrace

  • Kafka

  • Bitbucket

  • Git

  • CI/CD

  • Jenkins

  • Docker

  • APIs

  • REST

  • SOAP

  • XML

  • WSDL

  • Swagger

Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
3 months

Design of Telematics Communication Protocol

BMW Group / MVI SOLVE-IT GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Design of Telematics Communication Protocol at BMW Group / MVI SOLVE-IT GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Developing the new JoynR communication protocol between vehicle and backend for ConnectedDrive TeleServices

  • Migrating all ConnectedDrive TeleServices to the new protocol

  • Defining the data model and data flow to and from the vehicle

  • Mapping existing telematics and tele-diagnostic services to the new protocol

  • JoynR

  • MQTT

  • Franca IDL

  • MS Office

  • PlantUML

Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
6 months

Design of External Partner Integration for Service Orders

BMW Group / eSolve AG

Expertise details
Position Summary
Design of External Partner Integration for Service Orders at BMW Group / eSolve AG
Industries
Automotive
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Providing service request notifications from ConnectedDrive TeleServices for independent service partners

  • Technical design of external system integration

  • Defining a status model for open service requests

  • Designing a user model (GUI)

  • Defining the API and creating or extending existing interface specifications and contracts

  • BMW ITPM

  • BPMN 2.0

  • MagicDraw

  • ARIS

  • MS Visio

  • API

  • SOAP

  • XML

  • WSDL

Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year 3 months

Conceptualization of Integrated Accident and Damage Management

BMW Group / MVI SOLVE-IT GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Conceptualization of Integrated Accident and Damage Management at BMW Group / MVI SOLVE-IT GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Introduction of the telematics service "Integrated Accident and Damage Management"

  • Technical design for the implementation of the new telematics service in the backend

  • Planning the integration of new processes into the existing system landscape

  • Integration of new interfaces and negotiation of interface contracts

  • Coordination of integration requirements with all involved components

  • Submission of change requests and support of implementation

  • BMW ITPM

  • BPMN 2.0

  • MagicDraw

  • ARIS

  • API

  • REST

  • Swagger

  • SOAP

  • XML

  • WSDL

Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
10 months

Subproject Lead for Integration of Telematics Services into a New Dealer Service Acceptance System

BMW Group / doubleSlash GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Subproject Lead for Integration of Telematics Services into a New Dealer Service Acceptance System at BMW Group / doubleSlash GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Integration of ConnectedDrive TeleServices into a new dealer service acceptance system

  • Subproject lead for the integration

  • Requirements analysis and business analysis of processes and service workflows

  • Functional design and process modeling

  • API definition and creation or extension of existing interface specifications and contracts

  • BMW ITPM

  • BPMN 2.0

  • MagicDraw

  • ARIS

  • MS Visio

  • Oracle

  • API

  • REST

  • Swagger

  • SOAP

  • XML

  • WSDL

  • RPlan

Sep 2012 - Jun 2013
10 months

Design of a New Telematics Feature for Battery Monitoring

BMW Group / doubleSlash GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Design of a New Telematics Feature for Battery Monitoring at BMW Group / doubleSlash GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Design and integration of a new telematics feature for monitoring the vehicle's battery

  • Technical design of the new telematics feature

  • Planning the integration of new processes into the existing system landscape

  • Adapting the existing system architecture to integrate new processes

  • Coordination with all involved components

  • Onboarding new interface partners and negotiating interface contracts

  • BMW ITPM

  • BPMN 2.0

  • MagicDraw

  • ARIS

  • API

  • REST

  • Swagger

  • SOAP

  • XML

  • WSDL

  • MS Visio

  • Oracle

Apr 2012 - Apr 2019
7 years 1 month

Requirements Management BMW ConnectedDrive / TeleServices

BMW Group / multiple partner companies

Expertise details
Position Summary
Requirements Management BMW ConnectedDrive / TeleServices at BMW Group / multiple partner companies
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Provision of a communication link with vehicles for service needs, vehicle information, and tele-diagnostics

  • Connection to dealer systems, roadside assistance centers, and other applications

  • Analysis of functional requirements from business units and preparation of complete change requests for implementation

  • Business analysis including efficiency improvements and identifying potentials

  • Formulation of IT requirements and breakdown of sub-requirements for development teams

  • Organization and moderation of change control boards to prioritize and plan implementation schedules

  • Release planning according to the prioritization of change requests

  • Knowledge transfer to development and testing service providers

  • Backlog management

  • Requirements management

  • Release planning

  • Backlog management

  • Agile software development

  • SAFe framework

  • Scrum

  • HP ALM

  • Jira

  • Confluence

  • ITIL/ITSM

  • Remedy

  • Rational Change

Apr 2012 - Dec 2018
6 years 9 months

Interface Management BMW ConnectedDrive / TeleServices

BMW Group / multiple partner companies

Expertise details
Position Summary
Interface Management BMW ConnectedDrive / TeleServices at BMW Group / multiple partner companies
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Connecting the ConnectedDrive TeleServices backend to dealer systems, roadside assistance centers, and other applications

  • Creation and coordination of interface contracts according to governance guidelines

  • Definition of functional and technical interface structures according to requirements

  • Creation of interface specifications in coordination with respective interface partners

  • Preparation and approval of interface contracts and ensuring signature by all partners

  • Web services

  • APIs

  • SOAP

  • REST

  • XML

  • WSDL

  • XSL-T

  • JSON

  • Swagger

  • SOAP UI

  • Postman

May 2011 - Apr 2012
1 year

Specialist Support and Rollout Management for ConnectedDrive TeleServices

BMW Group / Berner & Mattner GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Specialist Support and Rollout Management for ConnectedDrive TeleServices at BMW Group / Berner & Mattner GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Information Technology
Business Areas
Customer Service
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Worldwide functional and technical support for ConnectedDrive TeleServices telematics services

  • Rollout of the telematics services to additional markets

  • Conducting market training sessions

  • Rollout management of the telematics services in new markets

  • Functional coordination and communication with suppliers

  • End-to-end integration tests and user acceptance tests of the telematics functions in ramp-up vehicle series, control units, and backend releases

  • Management reporting and data warehouse

  • IBM Rational Change

  • DWH

  • Oracle DB

  • SQL

  • Microsoft Office

  • RPlan

  • HP ALM

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Automotive, Banking and Finance, and Information Technology.

Automotive
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, and Operations.

Project Management
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
Customer Service
Operations
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Skills

  • Management
  • Steering
  • Coordination
  • Integration
  • Development
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Processes
  • Digitalization
  • Process Optimization
  • Requirements
  • Change Management

Languages

German
Native

Education

Oct 2009 - Sep 2011

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Master of Computer Science, distributed systems, computer networks, and security · Computer Science · Munich, Germany

Oct 2007 - Sep 2010

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Bachelor of Computer Science · Computer Science · Munich, Germany

Oct 2005 - Jun 2005

Genoveva-Gymnasium

High school diploma · Cologne, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Prince2 project management certification

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 16
Experience in Automotive 10 y
Avg length 1 y 7 m
Longest experience 7 y

Global Experience

Countries worked in 1 (Germany)
Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Integration Project Manager for a new core banking system for financing, Lead Agile Management Office, Project lead for cloud migration of production planning software
Main industries Automotive, Banking and Finance, Information Technology
Main business areas Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Master
Certifications earned 1

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Where is Roman based?

Roman is based in Kirchheim bei München, Germany.

What languages does Roman speak?

Roman speaks the following languages: German (Native).

How many years of experience does Roman have?

Roman has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Roman has worked in at least 16 different roles and for 13 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months. Note that Roman may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Roman be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Roman would be well-suited for roles such as: Integration Project Manager for a new core banking system for financing, Lead Agile Management Office, Project lead for cloud migration of production planning software.

What is Roman's latest experience?

Roman's most recent position is Integration Project Manager for a new core banking system for financing at Volkswagen Financial Services / Leogy GmbH.

What companies has Roman worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Roman has worked for Volkswagen Financial Services / Leogy GmbH, BMW Group / Berylls, BMW Group, and Audi / Vision EC.

Which industries is Roman most experienced in?

Roman is most experienced in industries like Automotive, Banking and Finance, and Information Technology.

Which business areas is Roman most experienced in?

Roman is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Product Development. Roman also has some experience in Quality Assurance, Customer Service, and Operations.

Which industries has Roman worked in recently?

Roman has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Automotive, and Information Technology.

Which business areas has Roman worked in recently?

Roman has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Operations.

What is Roman's education?

Roman holds a Master in Computer Science from Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Does Roman have any certificates?

Roman has 1 certificate: Prince2 project management certification.

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