Waldemar Lammert-Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager for data- and architecture-driven transformation initiatives in complex system landscapes. Focus on target architecture, data and integration strategy, legacy decommissioning, migration planning, delivery management, and technical governance. Experience in decoupling highly integrated platforms, managing data and process migrations, defining service-oriented target states, coordinating cross-domain engineering streams, and evaluating technical solution options regarding effort, risk, operating model, and feasibility. Proven work in programs focusing on data flows, data provisioning, dealer/customer provisioning, API transition, reporting target architectures, and modernization of business-critical backend and integration systems.

• Definition of goals, milestones, and dependencies
• Program and roadmap management
• Managing cross-country teams to achieve targets
• Aligning the target architecture
• Risk analysis, assessment, and management
• Stakeholder management
• Planning releases, capacities, and dependencies
• Status tracking and C-level reporting
• Defining strategies, tools, frameworks, and integrations
• Quality assurance and acceptance

Product responsibility as well as technical and disciplinary leadership of two teams for the introduction and further development of new product lines (occupational health insurance / accident insurance) following agile methods and SCRUM principles.

• Responsible for interface analysis, impact assessment, and creating user stories for changes
• Responsible for technical architecture decisions and their implementation into scalable software solutions
• Creating and maintaining architecture artifacts (e.g., technical specifications, data models, interface descriptions)
• Providing architecture guidelines for full-stack teams and collaborating closely with stakeholders to ensure a consistent system landscape
• Communicating with stakeholders about requirements and clarifying interfaces with other application areas
• Conducting refinements, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives with the teams
• Technical point of contact for the development team
• Leading full-stack development teams consisting of 15 members
• Ensuring deliverables and milestones for development tasks

Planning, designing, and developing backend services via REST, SOAP, Kafka, and Spring (Boot, Batch, Actuator) for retrieving sensitive contract data from insurer systems.

• Process analysis and design based on customer requirements
• Data analysis and definition of a unified data model
• Quality assurance through defining and implementing a test strategy
• Implementing GDPR-compliant data storage
• Preparing data for the data warehouse for analysis via Salesforce
• Developing a security concept to enhance data security
• Implementing BiPro-compliant data processes
• Implementing agile methods according to Scrum
• Designing and implementing distributed backend systems based on microservices and event-driven architectures
• Designing cloud-based infrastructure components with focus on scalability, security, and maintainability
• Responsible for the technical integrity and further development of complex data flows and API structures
• Providing functional and technical support to product managers
• Technical support of the sales team during the acquisition process, including customer meetings
• Detailed requirement gathering in coordination with the Product Owner
• Serving as functional and technical point of contact during implementation and quality management

Technical system responsibility in a banking environment for various backoffice services in the automotive and financial sectors (cash flows, transaction postings, account management, payments, loan and investment management, booking logic, master data management). Support of the product team and release management.

• Optimization of system architecture: identification of redundant functionalities and unification through modularization
• Increased scalability of individual modules by introducing a service registry
• Stakeholder management as technical service owner to ensure planned deliverables, problem resolution, risk assessment, and escalations
• Extension of existing interfaces and functionalities
• Application ownership of QA systems
• Support of the sales team with feature analysis and estimates for customer acquisition
• Adaptation of software modules to customer requirements
• Responsibility for release cycles including documentation and communication