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Umut G.

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Freelancer

Frankfurt
Umut G.

Last position:

Data Architect at BA Technology

I am an experienced data engineer specializing in end‑to‑end data integration, cloud DWH architectures, and high‑quality, governed data products.

I delivered following projects and engagements as a freelancer.

  • Data Migration of CRM System for AL-FA Objekt Service Gmbh
  • Microsoft Software Resales Partnership

I am looking for freelance roles like: Freelance Data Engineer Cloud Data Warehouse Architect Data Modeling & Architecture Consultant MDM & Data Governance Specialist BI & Analytics Developer

Technical Focus Areas

  • Data Engineering & Integration: SQL Server/SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter/IDQ, Talend, Kafka, Azure Data Factory – Delta/CDC/ELT patterns, robust pipelines, monitoring/recovery, data lineage & impact analysis, medallion architecture Bronze/Silver/Gold layers
  • DWH & Cloud: Azure SQL / Data Lake / Synapse, AWS Redshift/S3, on‑prem SQL/Oracle – scalable data marts with a strong cost/benefit focus.
  • Data Modeling: Atomic (Inmon) and Dimensional (Kimball), Data Vault (Linstedt), Domain‑Driven Design, clear lineage & contracts.
  • MDM & Governance: Informatica MDM, IBM MDM, stewardship processes, data quality rules, survivorship/XREF, catalog/glossary, SIF/BES/REST publication.
  • Analytics/BI: Power BI, SSAS, Cognos – business‑ready, maintainable data products.
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Hachem S.

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Machine Learning & BI Lecturer

Munich
Hachem S.

Last position:

Machine Learning & BI Lecturer at EU Business School

  • Taught ML, BI, and Big Data to Master's students.

Tech: Python, Power BI, SQL, ML, SnowflakeDB, databricks, MS Fabric, MongoDB, LLM

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Alexander H.

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Senior Product & Strategy Consultant Strategic Product Management, Product & Platform Development, Go-to-Market,

Frankfurt am Main
Alexander H.

Last position:

Senior Product & Strategy Consultant at hegehofer.consulting

Design, development, and market launch of digital products and platforms – from strategic alignment and agile implementation to Go-to-Market and Go-Live, integrating AI into processes and products

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Stefan O.

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
Stefan O.

Last position:

Founder at ProtocolEngine.io

Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.

  • Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
  • Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
  • Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
  • Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
  • Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
  • Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.

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Kiriakos K.

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Platform Engineering Tech Lead / Architect

Nickenich
Kiriakos K.

Last position:

Tech Lead / Architect : OTTO API Platform at OTTO

Maturing their API practices on both a business and technology level. My role covers strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands-on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API-centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and platform best practices with this project.

Highlights:

  • Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
  • Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
  • Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals

API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Redocly, reactive programming, CDC, Golang, Gin, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.

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Jens H.

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Interim CTO / CDO & Enterprise Architect | AI Compliance & EU AI Act, Azure AI Foundry | Lawyer & Computer Scientist

Wathlingen
Jens H.

Last position:

Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS

Stabilization of an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.

  • Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
  • Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics

Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps

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Alexander Z.

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Senior Data Architect & Data Engineer

Berlin
Alexander Z.

Last position:

Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.

  • Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
  • Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
  • Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
  • Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
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Olga L.

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IT Business Analyst/Test Manager

Frankfurt am Main
Olga L.

Last position:

Business Analyst at VisualVest (Union Investment)

  • Analyzed, structured, and documented business requirements for digital investment solutions, such as robo-advisors.
  • Designed applications for new retirement products, including user flows, UX requirements, and functional specifications.
  • Modeled and optimized business processes and coordinated with stakeholders while taking regulatory requirements in the financial sector into account.
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Will O.

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Solution Architect

Esslingen
Will O.

Last position:

Solution Architect at Polizei Behörde Stuttgart

  • Designed a migration strategy for WLS applications to BKA Cloud and Stack IT

  • Created a hybrid cloud for internal testing and development with Kubernetes

  • Transformed the IT landscape from an outdated monolithic architecture to a cloud-based architecture

  • Integrated new CI/CD processes using Azure Pipelines

  • Quadrupled the processing throughput for personnel security checks

  • Migrated personnel security screening applications to Docker-based applications

  • Implemented CI/deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps

  • Environment: Java Springboot, Kubernetes, Oracle Weblogic, OpenID, Camunda, JUnit, TOGAF

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Prasad T.

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Solution Architect / Senior Manager – DTC E-Commerce Platform

Frankfurt
Prasad T.

Last position:

Solution Architect / Senior Manager – DTC E-Commerce Platform at BRITA

  • Led discovery phase and POC for Shopware to Shopify Plus migration across EMEA markets, evaluating platform suitability, technical architecture, and multi-brand/multi-country capabilities against business requirements.
  • Designed reference architecture for Shopify Plus implementation incorporating headless front-end patterns (Vue.js, Nuxt.js), CMS integration (Magnolia), and Azure middleware (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus) for 11 EMEA markets.
  • Defined migration strategy analyzing data mapping, cutover approach, and zero-downtime deployment patterns using Varnish caching, GitOps pipelines, and CI/CD orchestration across six vendor teams.
  • Architected multi-tenant Shopify Plus governance model with centralized admin, localized storefront customization, and compliance controls (GDPR, data residency).
  • Prototyped AI-driven search optimization (LLM.txt, JSON-LD) for product discoverability in Google AI results, demonstrating post-launch performance opportunities.
  • Defined EMEA expansion roadmap for 15+ markets through C-level strategic workshops, identifying phased rollout, market-specific configurations, and resource requirements.
  • Tech Stack: React, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Magnolia CMS, Shopware, Shopify Plus, Azure (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Front Door), Varnish, SAP, MS Dynamics, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka
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Jan E.

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Traditional and Agile Project Management

Potsdam
Jan E.

Last position:

Participant in Project Management Certifications at Business Trends Academy BTA GmbH

Certifications earned:

  • EXIN Agile Scrum Master
  • EXIN Agile Product Owner
  • GPM Basiszertifikat im Projektmanagement
  • IPMA Level D
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Aurelia H.

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Senior Software Developer

Sundern (Sauerland)
Aurelia H.

Last position:

Software Full Stack Developer at INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG

  • Implementing and extending an Electron app based on TypeScript, React and Node.js to display stream content and technical data
  • Extending a Kotlin backend for message processing via Kafka
  • Extending various React modules
  • Programming custom solutions for customers, including testing
  • Creating documentation
  • Development in accordance with Scrum processes

Used skills: React, React Hooks, Jest, Vitest, Typescript, Electron, IntelliJ, Vite, Github, Jira, Node.js, yarn, npm, pnpm, Swagger, OpenAPI, Storybook, Docker, Prettier, Eslint, tailwindcss, i18n, GraphQL, CoPilot, Postgres, JSON, Sqlite, trpc, influxdb, Java, Spring, Kotlin, Kafka, Git, Sonarcube

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Torsten F.

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Data Analyst, Requirements Manager

Dreieich
Torsten F.

Last position:

Data Analyst, Requirements Manager at Isabellenhütte Heusler GmbH

  • Analysis of the existing reporting platform, including processes and governance topics, with stakeholders from Sales and Marketing.

  • Detailed analysis and evaluation of customer-defined requirements for existing reporting and new dashboards to be established.

  • Support for stakeholders in managing sales processes and identifying KPI trends at an early stage.

  • Use of Microsoft Power BI as the central analysis and reporting platform.

  • Development of a proposal for the required further development of processes and the Power BI platform.

  • Documentation of AS-IS business processes and derivation of company-wide KPIs, including coordination with stakeholders.

  • Analysis and assessment of the customer's Power BI platform.

  • Analysis of processes and data governance.

  • Documentation of AS-IS business processes.

  • Development of recommendations for further developing processes and the reporting platform.

  • Design and implementation of dashboards in Power BI.

  • Development of company-wide KPIs and coordination with stakeholders.

  • Microsoft Power BI.

  • Data analytics.

  • KPI definition and reporting.

  • Dashboard design and data visualization.

  • Stakeholder management and requirements management.

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Shanna T.

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Data Scientist & AI Developer · RAG Systems · LLM Integration · Intelligent Process Automation

Gifhorn
Shanna T.

Last position:

Freelance Data Scientist & AI Developer at tellaev.de

  • Portfolio development & customer acquisition
  • Portfolio development (RAG, NLP fine-tuning, process automation with n8n) and active customer acquisition
  • Positioning: GDPR-compliant, locally hosted AI solutions for SMEs

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Statistics of experts using Big Data

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

19 years

Big Data experts in Germany have 19 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

3 years

Big Data experts in Germany stay in a single position for 3 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

12

Big Data experts in Germany have completed 12 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Big Data experts in Germany have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance

Big Data experts in Germany are most in demand in Information Technology, Professional Services, and Banking and Finance.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence

Big Data experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Project Management, and Business Intelligence.

Bachelor's degree or higher

93%

93% of Big Data experts in Germany hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

65%

65% of Big Data experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

16%

16% of Big Data experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

Big Data experts in Germany hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

Big Data experts in Germany most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

98%

98% of Big Data experts in Germany speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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4% of Big Data experts in Germany charge less than €400 per day.
38% of Big Data experts in Germany charge between €400 and €800 per day.
47% of Big Data experts in Germany charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
10% of Big Data experts in Germany charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
2% of Big Data experts in Germany charge €1600 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.

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Average rates of experts in Germany using Big Data

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 829 €

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Median rate 800 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Big Data experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (84%)
  • Professional Services (48%)
  • Banking and Finance (45%)
  • Manufacturing (43%)
  • Automotive (37%)
  • Education (35%)
  • Healthcare (33%)
  • Retail (33%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

What Big Data means

Big Data covers the methods and systems used to collect, store, process and analyze datasets that are too large, fast or varied for conventional databases. It supports batch processing, real-time analytics, machine learning preparation and operational reporting. The focus is not only volume, but also data quality, speed, lineage and business value.

What it builds

Companies use Big Data to create data platforms that bring together transactions, application events, sensor readings, documents and external sources. Typical deliverables include:

  • Scalable data lakes and lakehouse environments
  • Batch and real-time ingestion pipelines
  • Event-driven analytics and monitoring
  • Recommendation, forecasting and risk models
  • Governed reporting and self-service data products

Ecosystem and tooling

The ecosystem commonly includes Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Trino, alongside cloud storage and managed services. Specialists may work with Python, Java or Scala, SQL, distributed file formats such as Parquet, and orchestration tools including Apache Airflow. Strong security, metadata management and observability are essential across the stack.

When companies need specialists

Freelance expertise is useful when an existing platform cannot keep pace with data growth, when a migration has stalled or when teams need a reliable route from raw events to trusted insight. Common signals include:

  • Slow or fragile ingestion and processing jobs
  • Separate systems that cannot share consistent data
  • Rising cloud or storage costs without clear ownership
  • Delayed reporting for operational decisions
  • New governance, retention or access requirements

Working in Germany

In Germany, Big Data supports manufacturing, mobility, energy, finance, retail, healthcare and public services. Projects often combine cloud environments with established on-premises systems, so professionals must handle hybrid architectures, strict access controls and clear documentation. Remote collaboration can work well when interfaces, ownership and delivery standards are agreed early; on-site workshops may help with complex legacy environments.

What strong professionals deliver

A strong specialist starts with the business question and defines useful data products before selecting tools. They design for failure, replay, schema changes, privacy and measurable operating costs rather than treating scale as the only goal. Look for evidence of production pipelines, clear testing practices, monitoring, incident handling and communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Frequently asked questions

Curious about Big Data? Here are the answers that come up again and again.

Big Data is used to process large, fast-moving or diverse datasets for analytics, forecasting, automation and operational decisions. A specialist may build ingestion pipelines, data lakes, streaming applications, recommendation systems or governed reporting layers.

Big Data systems distribute storage and processing across multiple resources and are designed for broad data volumes and formats. A traditional relational database remains a strong choice for structured transactions, while Big Data is often added for large-scale analytics, event processing or machine learning workloads.

Big Data work usually benefits from strong SQL, Python or Java, cloud storage, distributed computing and data modelling skills. Experience with Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, security, observability and machine learning pipelines can also be valuable, depending on the project.

Big Data projects need a professional who has handled production data flows similar to the proposed workload, not just completed tutorials. The right level depends on the scope, but architecture decisions, failure recovery, governance and cost control should be assessed before work begins.

Big Data work is often suitable for remote collaboration because pipelines, infrastructure and documentation can be managed through shared repositories and cloud environments. Germany-based projects may still require on-site sessions for access reviews, legacy system discovery or coordination with plant and operations teams.

Apache Spark is a strong option for large-scale batch processing, SQL analytics and unified data workloads. Apache Flink may fit continuous, low-latency stream processing better, while simpler SQL or managed services can be more appropriate when the data volume and transformation logic are modest.

Big Data quality is shown through production outcomes and sound technical reasoning, not by tool names alone. Ask how the professional handled schema changes, bad records, retries, monitoring, access control, testing and cloud cost management, then review relevant deliverables and references.

Big Data freelancers should clarify data sources, expected freshness, retention, ownership, security constraints and delivery milestones before committing. They should also understand the existing stack, such as Hadoop, Kafka or Spark, and confirm whether collaboration is remote, hybrid or tied to a German site.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 829 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 65% hold at least a Master's degree, and 16% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects are German (98%), English (98%), and French (22%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects are Information Technology (84%), Professional Services (48%), and Banking and Finance (45%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Business Intelligence (74%), and Product Development (73%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Big Data

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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