Data Pipeline Experts in Frankfurt

Project, Strategic Consulting – building the Data Strategy and Data Governance Policy for the German branch, client (private bank Julius Bär, headquarters Zurich), March 2026 – present

• Design and negotiation of the data strategy with key stakeholders, including obtaining board sign-off (strategic consulting) – in this context, regulatory advice on data regulations in the EU and specifically for Germany. The data strategy includes: Data Lifecycle Management: data capture, data storage, data usage, data retention policy, data quality incident management
• Definition of milestones and technical feasibility for implementing TOM for the data strategy, data quality checks, metrics, and a metadata inventory to ensure the bank’s compliance with DORA, BCBS239, and MaRisk requirements.

Core project data change, client: (ING Bank, Frankfurt am Main), March – December 2025

• Concept development and solution design for new end-to-end processes including technical interfaces
• Definition of synchronization logic and data flows between legacy and target systems (decommissioning of legacy systems)
• Analysis and validation of data models
• Stakeholder communication with product owners, feature engineers, UX designers, and operational teams for decision-making
• Analytics and impact assessments, e.g. to assess downstream effects and regulatory requirements
• Documentation and comments on technical and business requirements to support implementation in agile squads

Project digitalization of a user group, client: (ING Bank, Frankfurt am Main), as Interim Product Owner, Jan 2025 – present

• Co-shaping key decisions on data architecture and process logic in the context of historized data and user login functionality
• Development of business solution concepts for migration to the target system, including system integration and data flows
• Support with analytics and impact analyses, especially regarding the ability to provide information to law enforcement authorities
• Active coordination with stakeholders from different squads to support decision-making and ensure regulatory requirements are met
• Creation of test scenarios for operational teams and backend systems in the area of API management using Postman and Bruno.

• Led design, development, and deployment of data solutions supporting a major pharma acquisition for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, delivering transparency reporting systems across Azure,Databricks (Python and Shell Scripting) platforms.
• Owned,Designed and developed scalable ELT pipelines to process Customer and Product data using Azure, complex SQL, Databricks, and shell scripting, enabling efficient data integration and processing across multiple sources including job orchestration and workflow automation.
• Implemented performance optimization techniques (query tuning, parallelism, workload optimization), improving system efficiency and processing time.
• Applied strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess technical solutions and support business requirements for compliance and transparency reporting.
• Designed scalable data foundations suitable for downstream analytics and AI workloads.
• Led data quality initiatives by assessing multiple source data, defining quality metrics, and establishing processes for monitoring and continuous improvement.

• Presentation introducing generic A.I. and Large Language Models
• Explanation of legal frameworks (EU AI Act, US CLOUD Act, DSGVO)
• Systematic review of AI tools along the SDLC and holistic systems
• Comparison of on-prem LLMs vs. cloud-based solutions, as well as change management and works council considerations
• Moderation of the discussion and definition of next steps for introducing AI development tools

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• Design an interactive Tableau dashboard to analyze historical aviation accidents using data from the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
• Develop visualizations to provide actionable insights to improve aviation safety measures employing data modeling and transformation techniques
• Develop a Power BI dashboard to monitor sales KPIs and product performance integrating data from multiple sources
• Design a star schema data model and implement advanced DAX measures for high-performance and dynamic reporting
• Design a comprehensive BI architecture solution focusing on ETL pipelines, data integration, and data governance
• Recommend Power BI as the central tool and create a security-compliant implementation roadmap

• Co-founded the Real-Time Data team, which grew to 10 members over time.
• Developed and delivered core data products.
• Optimized real-time application performance and implemented monitoring, alerting and logging solutions to ensure system stability.
• Created and maintained deployment pipelines.
• Collaborated with teammates, architects and experts in an agile Scrum environment.
• Operated applications, analyzed, tested and troubleshot software solutions.

• Datastage 11.7, dbt, Oracle 19, Python 3.12 / PySpark 3.5, Azure GitHub, Azure DevOps, Automic
• Development of migration jobs to transfer data from the collection DWH to the new Risk Mart, as well as development of ETL pipelines to migrate historical data from the old Mart to the new Risk Mart.
• Storage of the silver layer on Hadoop and the gold layer in Oracle.
• Translation of DataStage jobs into dbt to publish reporting data in Google Cloud to a PostgreSQL database.
• Creation and optimization of complex SQL queries for data extraction from a data vault, taking into account historical data in the point-in-time tables.
• Creation of Oracle table definitions (DDL) and adjustment of existing stored procedures.
• Versioning changes in GitHub and deployment via the CI/CD portal.
• Refactoring long-running DataStage jobs into Python using PySpark to reduce server load.
• Migration of SAS scripts to PL/SQL, including new development of distribution functions that have no direct equivalent in Oracle.
• Development of Automic jobs to run DataStage pipelines and Python scripts (PySpark jobs) that control the population of the SME and institutional risk tables in the Risk Mart and perform business calculations.
• Participation in the agile process, including creating user stories, estimations, and planning in Azure DevOps.
• Handling Azure DevOps tickets and close collaboration with testers and business teams for error analysis and resolution.

• Advising on the use of analytics and BI tools and services in the Microsoft Azure stack (e.g. MS Fabric, Synapse Workspaces and dedicated SQL pools, SQL Database, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Data Factory, SSIS, Analysis Services, Function Apps, Power BI, ML)
• Independently designing analytics solutions with Python, SQL, etc.
• Designing and implementing ETLs and data pipelines
• Creating and maintaining APIs
• Independently applying CI/CD, testing, and version control
• Data modeling
• Model development and optimization
• Anomaly detection with AI
• Predictive analytics

Used technologies:

• Snowflake
• Fabric
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure DataFactory
• Azure Data Lake
• Azure DevOps
• Databricks
• Spark
• CI/CD
• SQL Database
• Python
• Power Platform

• Introduction of a new workflow tool for Fibre Connectivity & Broadband Delivery
• Requirements design, estimation and prioritization
• Creation of rollout and project plans
• Management of the development team according to Scrum
• Design and project management of the API interface to existing tools
• Process modeling for the new Order Dispatching team (FCD & BD)
• Design of processes within and outside the team
• Requirements design and implementation of the necessary tools
• Creation and calculation of production KPIs

• Designed and implemented the agent-based AI architecture for a company-wide platform to securely deploy LLM-based agents
• Designed and implemented end-to-end RAG pipelines from multiple sources: document preprocessing, chunking strategies for different document types, embeddings, retrieval with re-ranking, and robust prompt orchestration
• Developed a modular context engineering framework with skill architecture, context isolation, and dynamic resource management; human-in-the-loop control for enterprise tool integrations
• Built the CI/CD pipeline, testing strategy, tracing on the software side as well as automated LLM and agent evaluations, red team testing and tracing, and handed over to a reproducible production environment (ISO27001 and SOC2 compliant)

• Engineered production-ready Azure environments using Terraform, ensuring consistent infrastructure parity across VNets and Resource Groups
• Implemented Microsoft Fabric tenant and workspace architecture for multi-stage Medallion data processing pipelines
• Designed secure data pathways using Managed Private Endpoints for isolated Azure Storage access
• Managed Service Principals and authentication tokens for secure REST API integrations

• Involved in the full development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment of Java-based applications.
• Built and maintained high-performance RESTful APIs and microservices, ensuring scalability and reliable data exchange.
• Practiced code reviews, used version control systems (e.g., Git), and collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust software solutions.
• Implemented, managed, and optimized complex business logic and decision-making processes using the Drools Rules Engine, leveraging DRL (Drools Rule Language) for dynamic configuration.
• Developed software solutions for a major service provider in the healthcare insurance sector, specifically focusing on claims processing and reconciliation logic to ensure cost-effective reimbursement for health funds.

• Built Power BI dashboards and enabled data-driven strategies across digital platforms

• Working for customer and internal projects ranging from B2C, B2B applications
• Development and maintenance of customer-facing and internal applications across B2C and B2B domains
• Responsibility for technical direction, architectural decisions and code quality standards
• Design and implementation of scalable application architectures, including modular frontend and service-oriented backend structures
• Conceptual planning and technical execution of the agency website relaunch in Angular
• Rapid prototyping and MVP development for B2B customer projects in the pharmaceutical sector with Vue.js
• Creation of first MVPs for 3D rendering–based products, including real-time visualization and interactive experiences
• Strong UX/UI expertise with a focus on gamification, user engagement and conversion-driven interfaces
• Close collaboration with product management, design and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Agile software development using Scrum, including sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, supported by Azure DevOps
• Full-stack development using React, Angular, TypeScript, Vue.js, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, C#, .NET, Node.js, RESTful APIs, Unity, Azure DevOps, Git and CI/CD pipelines