Data Governance Experts in Vienna
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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
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
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)
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
Peter Klosa
Last position:
Sabbatical
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Statistics of experts using Data Governance
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.4 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Strategy
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
78%
Doctorate
11%
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.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Vienna using Data Governance
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Governance basics
Data governance sets the rules for how data is owned, classified, approved, used, and protected. It helps companies keep reports consistent, reduce risk, and make sure teams can trust the same source of truth. Strong work in this area connects policy with daily operations.
Typical deliverables
- Data ownership and stewardship models
- Classification and retention rules
- Access review and approval flows
- Data catalog and glossary setup
- Lineage and traceability documentation
These deliverables often sit alongside ERP, CRM, BI, and cloud data work. In Vienna, they are common in regulated, multilingual, and cross-border environments where clear definitions matter.
Tooling and ecosystem
Data governance work often touches Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, SAP tools, and cloud data stacks. Experts also work with metadata management, master data management, and privacy controls. The best specialists understand both the tools and the operating model behind them.
When to bring in help
Bring in freelance expertise when governance is needed quickly, existing rules are inconsistent, or a data platform is growing faster than internal processes. Companies also look for outside support when a catalog launch, policy rollout, or data quality effort needs structure. Short-term help is common for audits, operating model design, and remediation.
What strong specialists do
A strong professional can talk to business owners, data teams, and compliance stakeholders without losing the details. They turn broad policy into practical steps that teams can actually follow.
- Clear ownership and decision rights
- Practical standards, not paper only
- Attention to metadata, lineage, and quality
- Good communication across functions
Project fit
Data governance is not only about control. It is about making data easier to find, safer to use, and simpler to manage. For Vienna-based teams, hybrid work is common, but workshops with local stakeholders can help when policy, language, or process alignment needs close coordination.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Data Governance, in one place.
Data Governance covers the rules, roles, and processes that define how data is managed. That usually includes ownership, classification, access, retention, quality checks, and accountability. It is the layer that turns data policy into day-to-day practice.
Data Governance sets the framework for who decides, who owns, and which standards apply. Data quality focuses on fixing and measuring the data itself. In most projects, the two work together, but governance comes first because it defines the rules.
A company should bring in a Data Governance specialist when it needs structure quickly, such as during a catalog rollout, policy refresh, or platform expansion. Freelance support also helps when internal teams know the problem but lack time to design the operating model. It is a good fit for short, focused work with clear outcomes.
A Data Governance project often includes Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, SAP data tools, and cloud metadata services. The exact stack depends on the data landscape and how the company manages glossary, lineage, and access workflows. Strong specialists can work across tools instead of pushing one product only.
They overlap, but they are not always used the same way. Data Governance usually focuses on data as a business asset, while information governance can be broader and include documents, records, and retention rules. In practice, many companies use the terms loosely and need a specialist who can align both views.
Ask which business decisions the Data Governance specialist has supported, not just which tools they know. You want proof they can define ownership, write usable policies, and get adoption from data, legal, security, and business teams. Ask for examples of governance that survived real operations, not slides only.
Yes, much of Data Governance can be done remotely because it relies on workshops, documentation, and stakeholder alignment. In Vienna, hybrid work is often useful when local business teams want in-person sessions for policy decisions or terminology alignment. Remote specialists should still be comfortable working with local time zones and German or English communication where needed.
A strong Data Governance freelancer usually knows data cataloging, metadata management, master data, privacy, and reporting workflows. Communication skills matter just as much, because the work depends on agreement between business and technical teams. Familiarity with regulatory and audit-driven environments is also a major plus.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects is 109 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 872 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 78% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects are English (100%), German (89%), and Spanish (33%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Banking and Finance (78%), and Insurance (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Data Governance in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (89%), and Strategy (78%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Data Governance
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