Jira Experts in Bremen

• Impact: Structured requirements analysis and quality assurance as a foundation for the further development of a software solution.
• Analysis, documentation, and coordination of requirements. Conducting stakeholder analyses, interviews, and workshops to gather and validate requirements. Conducting requirements reviews and working closely with business departments and development teams.

Techniques & Tools: Requirements Engineering, Stakeholder Management, Workshop Facilitation, System Context Modeling, Requirements Reviews, Quality Scenarios, Miro, Jira, Confluence

• Selected as SME for a government executive authority in Dubai, benchmarking four PPM platforms against technical fit and delivery risk and developing the target operating model and strategic benchmarks.
• Led an operational optimization project for a performance-based road maintenance contract, directing two consultants and delivering a 10% improvement against contract KPIs.
• Managed delivery of a smart city implementation as the consulting firm's project manager, coordinating the specialist solution consultant and the site's asset owner, and owning project governance and reporting.

• Management of a strategic major project to address the BaFin‑44er‑findings in the risk and lending environment.
• Establishment of structured risk and claim management; active representation toward internal and external stakeholders.
• End-to-end project planning, management, and monitoring of all work packages with up to 15 employees.
• Application of PMO+‑like governance structures for documentation and management

• Capturing requirements, including prioritization

• Coordinating the implementation schedule

• Supporting the necessary tests

• Setting up the necessary reporting structure

• Prioritized requirements for necessary measurements (KPIs)

• Monitoring dashboard for measuring system performance

• Reporting structure for measurement results

• The main goal of the project was to link the ECC system to the French e-invoicing network. This includes ensuring compliance with national e-invoicing regulations and achieving e-reporting readiness for the digital transfer of transaction data.

• Standardization of order management processes to achieve the required data quality and consistency.

• Ensuring correct VAT determination through targeted developments (customizing and, if necessary, ABAP) in the SAP SD module to comply with EU tax regulations.

• Design and configuration of the down payment process (Down Payments) in the SAP ECC system.

• Lead Developer / Tech Lead in a large banking group for a complete redevelopment of payment systems
• Rebuilding payment processing in stream processing
• Development and design of cross-border payment stream processing based on Kafka and Kafka Streams
• Development of different input formats for the business team using Drools rules to dynamically adjust validation rules
• Evaluation and comparison of different public cloud providers regarding the databases they offer
• Technologies & Tools: Java 21, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Azure, TDD, JEE, REST, Angular, Spark, Google Cloud, SCDF, PostgreSQL, Drools, Git, S3, MongoDB

• Developing automated build and deployment processes for the exclusive front office systems
• Integrating the front office systems into the IT infrastructure
• Developing innovative, user-friendly sales software for financial advisors
• Ensuring quality and flexibility through automation and working with CI/CD
• Working according to DevOps principles
• Operating the software together as a team in the AWS cloud and Azure cloud
• Deploying software artifacts to testing and production environments
• Maintaining the test environments
• Performing error analysis and providing information for further root cause analysis
• Maintaining and supporting the build pipeline
• Supporting load testing
• Coordinating the batch execution schedule with batch automation
• Creating concepts to further develop the software packaging process
• Building and delivering components to partners
• Developing GitLab and Jenkins pipelines for building, deploying and integrating components
• Automating processes with Spring Boot applications with a GUI (Thymeleaf, Angular 19)
• Developing RESTful Spring Boot applications with Kotlin and Angular 19, JDBC and REST accesses, data exchange via SFTP, XML (JAXB)
• Designing components using Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Replacing cmd and bash scripts with Spring Boot applications with a GUI
• Replacing Java 8 applications with JSP by Spring Boot 3 applications (Thymeleaf, Angular)
• Implementing frontend and backend authentication via Keycloak
• Writing JUnit tests with Mockito
• Increasing code coverage for SonarQube analysis

• Support in setting up a systematic multi-project management system (around 200 projects)

• Establishing portfolio and pipeline management

• Special focus on resource management

• Roll out of project and portfolio management software

• Conducting training at all management levels from project managers to executives

• Support for all users, especially key users

• Change management: culture change in the project organization

• Monitoring KPIs for portfolio and pipeline

• Status reporting to executive board and department heads

• Successful rollout in seven business units

• Development and embedding of the required processes

• Changes in ways of working and increasing cultural change

• Relief of the project pipeline and increased output through targeted control ("stop starting – start finishing")

• Designed and implemented secure backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate, following microservice principles and RESTful standards.
• Implemented GraphQL-driven REST APIs to streamline backend services in a Gradle and Maven environment.
• Implemented OAuth2-based authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure RESTful APIs in Spring Boot applications.

• Extension of an existing application with new customer requirements.
• AlmaLinux, Ubuntu; C, gcc; Oracle;
• Socket/TCP communication.
• CLion, Eclipse
• Git

• Backend & Frontend development (Full-Stack)
• PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Symfony, Twig, Vue.js, ExtJS, jQuery, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Smarty
• Fact-Finder, Git, Jira, Jenkins, Scrum
• Based on Shopware 5 & 6
• ERP system integration
• Experience with REST APIs
• Developed a Laravel script to migrate all data (products, product images, orders, customers, prices, etc.) from Shopware 5 to Shopware 6
• Able to develop any kind of Shopware 6 and Shopware 5 plugins

• Built data pipelines with DVC for version control and efficient data management
• Trained and optimized AI models
• Improved CVAT with custom annotation formats, AI model integration, and streamlined annotation workflows
• Trained, debugged, evaluated, and deployed DCNN models in production
• Developed MaDCAT, an AI-powered CVAT extension for simultaneous data capture and annotation

• Helped the Research and Development department identify business processes and integrate them into a new and sustainable software infrastructure
• Balanced business requirements and technical obstacles to find optimal solutions for users
• Used Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Confluence and PowerPoint

• Coordination and execution of PIM implementations in Contentserv and Akeneo
• Optimization and enrichment of data flows in system landscapes
• Technical documentation
• Workshops