Data Migration Experts in Cologne

Project: Introduction of statutory-compliant electronic invoicing (outbound, Germany) in SAP for an international technology group.

• Project management: Planning, steering and reporting of the E-Invoicing outbound rollout across all affected business areas, including budget and resource coordination.
• UAT: Structured user acceptance test with key users per business area, test cases per invoice scenario, and consolidated test results for decision making.
• Defect management: Handover and tracking of defects in Jira, including validation of the generated invoices against the statutory schemas.
• Cutover, go-live and hypercare: Readiness checks and cutover planning aligned with the statutory deadlines, coordination of go-live and stabilization during hypercare.
• Stakeholder management and reporting: Alignment with Finance, Tax, business departments and IT, preparation of status reports and decision papers, and consistent follow-up of open items.
• Change management and documentation: Communicated process changes to the business departments, enabled key users, and created process and compliance documentation to ensure traceability and audit readiness.

With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.

• Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
• Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
• Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
• Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
• Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
• Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
• Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
• Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
• Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
• Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
• Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
• Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
• Implement the IT concept
• Document the infrastructure

Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot

• Planning and implementation of a migration strategy for master and transaction data for the continuous loading of a cloud-independent database
• Creation and pilot implementation of a company-wide Business Data Model for customers, suppliers, contracts, products, prices, consumption, invoices, and dunning
• Concept and consulting for a Data Governance Framework incl. definition of committees, roles, processes, and metadata model
• Operationalization of the Data Governance Framework with definition of data standards
• Sub-project management in two pilot projects (PoCs) for Data Governance systems (ErwinDIS and Atlan)
• Training and coaching the data team in migration, data quality, and data modeling

• SAP ERP/ECC, SAP S/4 Hana
• Analysis and documentation of SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSCD customizing
• Analysis, consulting and documentation of S/4 Hana apps for defining and executing statutory reports
• Clarification of the prerequisites for using S/4 Hana apps to define and execute statutory reports
• Analysis and documentation of customizing for in-house developments
• Consulting on the integration of SAP FI/CO as well as PSM, PSM-FM (Funds Management), Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (PSCD)
• Consulting and documentation of customizing adjustments in SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSM-FM, PSCD when introducing new company codes and other organizational structures
• Consulting and documentation of necessary process adjustments

• Determining the current status (planning status / expansion status) of the so-called interpolygon routes
• Preparing an end-to-end project plan for the individual routes, taking active and passive components and activities into account
• Monitoring and controlling plan implementation
• Optimizing the selected network architecture
• Creating network and splice plans

• Create the blue prints
• Customizing Asset Management
• Support the EAM data migration
• Create the TSD for developments
• Modules: SAP S/4 HANA Asset Management

• Consulted on and delivered over 30 Salesforce projects (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Pardot, Marketing Cloud)
• Designed and built CRM architectures, including requirements management, data modeling, and automation
• Implemented custom solutions (Apex, LWC, Flows, integrations)
• Developed interfaces with ERP, DMS, and email systems (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, DocuWare, among others)
• Introduced agile project methods (Scrum, Kanban) in customer projects
• Coached internal Salesforce teams (admin and developer training)

Focus:

Consulting in reporting and project management for Power BI

Goal:

Creation of IT application dashboards for business areas

Activities:

• Technical consulting and support in managing and coordinating an existing reporting setup
• Structured collection, analysis, and preparation of business reporting requirements
• Technical coordination with defined internal contacts
• Design and optimization of Power BI reports to improve data analysis
• Development of concepts and recommendations for the further development of an efficient and transparent reporting system
• Support in the user-friendly visualization of relevant company KPIs as a basis for decision-making

Tools/Skills: MS-PowerBI, DAX, MS-Office 365, PowerQuery M, BCS

• Provided excellent customer service in a customer-facing role.
• Managed departments of CASA, deposits, credit/loans, and recovery.
• Engaged in banking product analysis, design, customization, testing, and implementation activities.
• Selected for the CBS upgradation project for testing new version of core banking software in 2019.
• Managed successful upgradation of corporate module Flexcube (FCC) of CBS software, dealing with limit creation, security/collateral creation, bank guarantees, letters of credit, corporate loans, export and import bills, forward contracts, and fund transfers (inward and outward).
• Performed PL/SQL development and manual testing (JIRA).
• Collaborated with IBM (system integrator) and Oracle team (vendor) for removal of bugs and onboarding new products/parameters.
• Handled integration of Export Data Processing and Monitoring System (EDPMS) and Import Data Processing and Monitoring System (IDPMS) with CBS package.
• Closely worked with BA&IS wing for generating various statutory and other reports related to Flexcube corporate module.
• Participated in core testing team for IT synergy project during amalgamation of Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank.
• Worked in head office under technology operations wing, handling FCC issues on an ongoing basis.

• Developed and enhanced ETL loading jobs with IBM DataStage and optimized SQL in an IBM DB2 environment as part of the Agree21 data migration
• Analyzed data quality and developed test procedures
• Created PowerShell scripts and documented GIT deployment processes
• Technologies: RedHat Linux, IBM DB2 with DBVisualizer, IBM InfoSphere DataStage 11.7, JIRA, TortoiseGIT, TortoiseSVN, PowerShell scripts

• Java 11/21

• Springboot

• Swagger/OpenApi

• Azure Pipelines

• Trivy Integration

• Apache Sling

• OSGI

• Java Content Repository (JCR)

• Apache Jackrabbit Oak

• Adobe HTL

• GraphQL

• Maven

• GitLab

• IntelliJ

• Azure Cloud

• Azure DevOps

• Terraform

• AEM specialist in the Scrum team

• Development and deployment of microservices via Open API interfaces

• Operation of microservices in the Azure Cloud

• Implementation of AEM modules and integration with microservices

• Member of the knowledge transfer team and a backend coordination team

The project aims to migrate the company's existing Power BI Premium environment to Microsoft Fabric. This migration includes moving the existing data models, reports, and dashboards to the new platform to take advantage of the extended features and improved performance of Microsoft Fabric. The solution will be deployed in various regions worldwide to ensure a unified and consistent reporting and analytics environment for all locations.

Requirements analysis, migration planning, data migration, adapting reports and dashboards, testing and validation, training and support, deployment and monitoring, regional rollout.

• In the citizens' and business customer portal of the Customs Administration, airlines submit applications for departures and landings every month

• These applications are forwarded to the caseworkers via SOAP web service and, after review and processing, any queries or notifications are returned via SOAP web service

• PL/SQL programming of SOAP webservices client requests for HTTP/XML message exchange between the BuG portal and the caseworkers

• New creation and change requests for Forms and Reports 12 modules

• Forms applications start and read SOAP webservice requests via PL/SQL packages, process them and send Reports 12 documents to the airlines

• Design, implementation and initial population using AI of a cloud-based, group-wide central contract management database for the IT subsidiary of a leading European retail company, including related IT-supported contract processes
• Concept paper (preliminary study) on putting central provider management into practice (DORA, German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive CSDDD) as part of the structural realignment of a digital services partner of the Savings Banks Finance Group
• Strategic setup of a new central unit, including development of business requirements specifications for contract and process management and a document management system for a digital services partner of the Savings Banks Finance Group
• Strategic organisational review in the public sector to implement the maturity model as part of the ÖGD Digital Pact (process evaluation, review of tasks, SWOT analysis, staffing assessment)
• Interim IT project lead for a private building society, restructuring the project organisation as part of the technical and strategic process redesign of key end-to-end processes for the new technology platform of the internet portal of Germany’s largest nationwide mortgage broker
• Ensured the strategic and operational readiness of vaccination centres in Hesse as a program management consultant on the politically sensitive Impf-IT project for the Hessian Ministry of Integration and Social Affairs
• Interim management of the IT project portfolio with network partners at a data centre, as part of the multi-year business implementation plan and annual IT planning
• Migration of legacy data from merged regional banks into the group bank’s systems and delivery processes to reduce costs and optimise the business portfolio
• Coached a consulting firm in developing and establishing lending services within Financial Services Banking, using innovative blockchain technology
• Strategic and financial realignment of conference centres in the D-A-CH region to ensure long-term viability while meeting financial targets, including a sales negotiation mandate for a non-profit organisation’s conference centre