Data Governance Experts in Austria
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Manuel Pasieka
Last position:
AI Engineer at Misumi Europe GmbH & Motius GmbH
- Designed and built a next-generation NLP platform to accelerate sales-driven customer service through intelligent request analysis and routing, reducing average customer query response time by 30%.
- Architected a hybrid NLP system combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with traditional NLP pipelines for robust, explainable results.
- Developed request classification and routing mechanisms to accelerate customer support teams in handling customer queries faster and more accurately.
- Optimized LLM based data extraction and classification with context engineering.
- Integrated the platform into customer service processes, reducing response times and enhancing workforce efficiency.
Stefan Maxones
Last position:
SAP Architect at Manufacturing Industry
SAP Business Data Cloud / Datasphere rollout
Technologies: SAP Datasphere | SAP BTP | SAP Analytics Cloud | ETL / ELT | Security & Governance
Tasks / Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing data architectures in SAP Business Data Cloud / Datasphere
- Designing spaces, data products, and data flows for integrated data models
- Connecting SAP and non-SAP systems via SDI, ODP, APIs
- Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud for self-service analytics
- Building governance, security, and authorization concepts
- Creating architecture guidelines & performance optimization
Results / Achievements:
- Introduced a central data catalog & authorization concept
- Laid the foundation for self-service analytics
Damir Dudakovic
Last position:
Senior IT Consultant at Dudakovic e.U.
- Consulting in national and international projects in various roles and sectors (banking and finance, public sector, telecommunications, data management, software development)
- Engaging in project management, requirements management, business analysis, process management, IT consulting and coaching
- Delivering sustainable value quickly and efficiently due to high complexity and diversity of projects and expertise
- Emphasizing collegiality and integrity and fostering a positive team atmosphere
Fabio Galvagni
Last position:
IT Architect, Requirements Analyst and Consultant at CANCOM
- Supports CANCOM customers in migrating legacy on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry
- Takes over and stabilizes existing solutions after a short handover
- Business analysis and requirements engineering for migration to a new cloud environment
- Optimization of machine learning models for feature extraction and customer profiling
- Ensures data protection and compliance
- Leads the migration of on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric
- Designs new AI platforms for clients
- Tests the integration of chatbots for document intelligence with Microsoft Foundry, including requirements analysis, implementation, validation, and client communication
Christian Piffer
Last position:
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
- Project and test management for the accounting migration
- Coordination of resources
- Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
- Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
- System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence
Zeev Turchinsky
Last position:
Enterprise Architect at Coveris Group
- Built Enterprise Architecture practice covering business, application, data, and integration layers
- Created a multi-year Integration Strategy, delivering annual cost savings of several hundred thousand euros
- Defined portfolio simplification roadmap, identifying redundant systems and cost reduction opportunities
- Designed target-state enterprise architecture around D365 FSCM, enabling a best-of-breed future landscape
- Developed Master Data Management (MDM) strategy and roadmap to improve data quality and operational efficiency
- Provided enterprise-wide architectural direction ensuring alignment and eliminating redundant initiatives
- Established reusable architecture patterns adopted by delivery teams
- Facilitated cross-functional architecture forums to align product and delivery teams
- Translated enterprise architecture guidance into practical delivery decisions
- Drove practical adoption of architecture guidance across initiatives rather than acting as a gatekeeper
- Identified redundant systems enabling substantial cost reduction potential
- Enabled cost transparency in integration landscape
- Enabled fact-based investment prioritization decisions
Nikolaus Jäger-Grassl
Last position:
Integration Architect at CECIL
Designed an API-first omnichannel integration, linking WhatsApp Business API with Salesforce Marketing Cloud to unify customer data across multiple platforms.
Automated customer onboarding and engagement workflows using Marketing Cloud Journeys, SSJS, and Azure Functions.
Developed a middleware layer to sync WhatsApp interactions with Sales Cloud for seamless customer experience tracking.
Agnes Nagyistok
Last position:
Senior Technical Project Manager at LastPass
- Acting as the sole program owner for BizMax and SaaS Monitoring products, integrating enterprise business insights with platform reliability and health monitoring to drive revenue growth and operational confidence.
- Own delivery of complex B2B technical initiatives at LastPass, driving implementation of innovative security and platform features across the broader zero-knowledge ecosystem.
- Work with backend, frontend and DevOps teams; manage stakeholders from Product, Marketing, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Platform, UX, and Quality to define scope, priorities, success metrics, and delivery plans while driving technical decision processes.
- Lead program planning and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives; mentor cross-functional teams and act as the primary escalation point to remove blockers and maintain delivery momentum.
- Drive annual strategic planning and budgeting, working with senior leadership and directors to align priorities, secure funding, and optimize resource allocation; proactively identify, manage, and mitigate technical, delivery, and dependency risks throughout the full program lifecycle, escalating issues early to minimize impact.
- Lead internal dogfooding initiatives and external beta programs, collaborating directly with customers to validate functionality, usability, and performance.
- Support go-to-market activities by contributing to customer-facing content, including blogs, talks, and product communications; own go-live readiness, hypercare coordination, and program closure, ensuring lessons learned are captured and applied for continuous improvement.
- Successfully led a large-scale greenfield program, designing and implementing end-to-end delivery and governance processes from scratch to deliver SaaS Monitoring and BizMax features, generating a multimillion-dollar increase in ARR and becoming a major revenue stream for the company.
- Designed repeatable AI-assisted workflows that improve planning accuracy and reporting efficiency.
- Founded and implemented standardized cross-team PMO processes and templates, including project overview, project brief, T-shirt sizing, risk register, ADR/RFC, release rollout plan, CAB, program closure, lessons learned, internal and external beta programs, and dogfooding, establishing a company-wide framework supporting delivery of the largest-scale programs.
- Mentored junior team members, new hires, and employees undergoing transformation initiatives, supporting skills development and adoption of modern delivery practices.
Benjamin Auer
Last position:
Multi-Project Manager at Trading Company
- Setup of a new Data Warehouse (Budget ~€15M 2025 – 2026)
- Backend modernization project (Budget ~€5M 2025 – 2026)
- Standard software rollout with custom programming (Budget ~€9M 2025 – 2026)
Georg Oberdammer
Last position:
CIO / CDO at TroGroup
- Design and execution of the transformation journey of IT & digitization and enablement of the further development of the group
- Development of the global IT & digitization strategy (motto: “ahead of the wave”) based on group standards and USP-driven digital solutions
- Definition of the digital strategy as part of the company’s 2030 strategy with a focus on the value disciplines “operational excellence,” “customer intimacy,” “product leadership”
- Design and implementation of a business-focused, global IT organization, including existing shadow IT parts
- Digital product development with a focus on IoT, data science, AI, software development (DevOps), cloud architecture, and Azure cloud services
- Initiation and ramp-up of the CoE for artificial intelligence and data analytics, including several agentic AI projects
- Definition and global rollout of the enterprise, infrastructure, and application architecture
- Cloud transformation including setup and execution of the global S/4HANA rollout, introducing new capabilities and modules
- Global business process standardization, automation, and end-to-end digitization within and across divisions
- IT/OT integration (shop floor, CAx integration)
- P&L responsibility and further development of digital marketing & sales channels, SEO/SEA, online product configuration, PIM/DAM, eBusiness/eCommerce systems
- Implementation of a global intranet portal and several digital solutions like Workday, Concur, Softconcis, Tacto, xFlow
- Further development of Salesforce beyond CRM into a sales backbone
- Support of M&A and divestiture
- Cyber security excellence, data protection, and NIS2 preparation
- Ramp-up of nearshore and offshore locations (Poland, India)
- Evaluation and implementation of business-value–driven IT innovation like RPA, business process AI, and low-code
- IT budgeting and controlling, KPI reporting, and negotiation of large IT contracts
- Global recruiting, people retention, and development
- Stakeholder management with executive management and heads of divisions
Klaus Hoffmann-Wissenwasser
Last position:
Founder at HoWi Consulting e. U.
- Project management IT & business process design digitalization
- Delivered 10+ successful projects (see project list)
- Business analysis
- Business organization
- Data management
Thomas Urban
Last position:
Consultant at Henrich Baustoffe
- Developing the required views and KPIs in collaboration with the different departments and management
- Preparing and modeling the various data sources
- Implementing the company-wide and cross-department dashboard in Microsoft Power BI
Andrea KiÄŤura Trenk
Last position:
Product Owner at ESET
- Managed the backlog for Financial product in Data Warehouse Systems, prioritized features, and aligned development efforts with business goals and financial reporting needs
- Defined the product vision and roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders and technical teams
- Delivered complex financial solutions supporting IFRS-compliant revenue recognition, budgeting and forecasting frameworks
- Facilitated cross-functional collaboration with finance, development, architecture, business owners, and executive management
- Translated business needs into clear specifications and functional designs, ensuring accurate implementation
- Led data governance initiatives to maintain integrity, consistency, and compliance
- Oversaw and conducted Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Coordinated and executed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate business requirements and ensure smooth adoption
- Applied Agile Scrum methodologies using Jira and Confluence to manage delivery and documentation.
Peter Klosa
Last position:
Sabbatical
Alina Ivascu
Last position:
SAS Enterprise Guide Business Analyst at UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions
- Ensure the business requirements documentation activity for the changes originated by the business units
- Deliver business specifications in the respective area
- Support business units
- Support the Technical Analysis Office and BI architecture for technical analysis, design and test analysis
- Participate in overall production lifecycle and post-deployment support
- Support the definition and maintenance of common language and data governance
- Organize support activities for production incidents assuring proper continuity of business activities
- Ensure compliance and support evolution of processes, standards and frameworks
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Statistics of experts using Data Governance
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.6 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
86%
Doctorate
21%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Austria using Data Governance
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About the technology
Governance Basics
Data governance defines how an organisation controls data use, ownership, and trust. It covers rules for quality, access, privacy, retention, and accountability. Strong specialists turn scattered data into something teams can rely on.
Core Work
They usually work on:
- data policies and operating models
- metadata, lineage, and catalog setup
- master and reference data rules
- data quality checks and issue handling
- roles for stewardship and approval flows
Tools and Ecosystem
Data governance often sits next to data catalogs, quality tools, privacy controls, and BI platforms. Common work includes Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, and cloud data stacks. The best professionals connect process, tooling, and ownership instead of treating governance as documentation only.
When to Bring Help
Companies bring in freelance specialists when data is duplicated, inconsistent, or hard to trace. They are also useful during cloud migrations, MDM rollouts, audit preparation, and new reporting programs. In Austria, this often matters when local teams need clear governance while working with regional or international stakeholders.
What Strong Specialists Do
Strong experts ask who owns each dataset, where quality breaks, and which controls are missing. They can work with business teams, security, legal, and analytics teams without slowing delivery. They make governance practical so people keep using it.
Delivery Outcomes
A solid engagement leaves clear policies, named owners, usable definitions, and visible data flows. It should also improve issue handling and make reporting easier to trust. For companies in Austria, remote work is often fine, but on-site sessions help when teams need fast alignment on sensitive data and shared rules.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Data Governance? Start with the answers below.
A strong Data Governance specialist defines who owns data, how it should be used, and which controls keep it reliable. They set policies, map lineage, improve data quality, and align business teams with security and compliance needs. The goal is not paperwork; it is trusted data that people can use.
Data Governance sets the rules and accountability model, while data management covers the daily handling of data. Governance decides who approves definitions, quality thresholds, and access rules. Data management then applies those decisions in systems and workflows.
No, but tools like Collibra and Microsoft Purview often help if the organisation needs a catalog, lineage, or stewardship workflow. A good specialist can also work with Informatica, Alation, or cloud-native tools. The right choice depends on your data landscape and operating model.
A strong Data Governance professional usually knows data quality, metadata management, master data, privacy, and stakeholder work. They should also understand reporting needs, process design, and how business and technical teams share responsibilities. Good communication matters as much as tool knowledge.
Smaller work, like fixing ownership or setting up a first glossary, can often start with a focused specialist. Broader programmes with catalogues, controls, and cross-team rules need someone who has already led similar rollouts. The key is whether the person has solved your type of governance problem before.
Yes, much of Data Governance can be handled remotely because policy design, catalog work, and workshops do not need constant on-site presence. For Austrian organisations, a local specialist can still help with language, internal coordination, and in-person sessions when sensitive topics need faster alignment.
Look for clear decisions, not long documents. A good Data Governance outcome gives you named owners, practical rules, traceable definitions, and a way to handle exceptions. If teams can use the framework without extra friction, the work was done well.
You usually need Data Governance support when reports conflict, definitions differ between teams, or nobody knows who owns a dataset. It also shows up when compliance reviews take too long or cloud migration exposes old data problems. At that point, a specialist can turn confusion into structure.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects is 116 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 926 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 86% hold at least a Master's degree, and 21% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects are English (100%), German (93%), and Spanish (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Banking and Finance (73%), and Insurance (40%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Business Intelligence (73%), and Project Management (73%).
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