Master Data Management Expert in Switzerland
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Switzerland, who have recently used Master Data Management
Michael R.
Last position:
Project Manager, Hustler, & Hound “Project KPIs on the Internet” at Global-KPI
- Project management, Hustler (identifying the complete financial operations, including Sales, Pitching, Financial Analysis, & Business Models) and Hound (identifying real customer needs, including Research, & Analysis) to build an online project KPI system.
- The system enables users to make well-founded decisions to keep projects on track according to their key parameters or bring them back on track when there are negative deviations from the plan.
- Provision of a forecast in addition to the current status.
- Automatic calculation and display of KPIs based on project key parameters entered by the user.
- Skills: Project Management, Project KPIs.
- Problem Space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), Corporate Innovation Team Set Up, Team Profile/ Team Canvas, Design Thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, researching the market, defining the problem.
- Solution Space: Narrowing down the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, prototyping, fine-tuning the prototype and Business Model Canvas, final pitch.
Frank G.
Last position:
Agile Coach and Program Manager at Centris AG
The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to develop a multi-channel output system to support their customers on their digital enhancement journey.
- Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
- Trained all ART leadership
- Coached the development of the solution intent
- Established 5 teams in the ART. Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
- Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions
The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to transform their claims management BPO and IT team into an agile delivery organization.
- Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
- Trained all ART leadership
- Coached the development of the solution intent
- Established 2 teams in an ART.
- Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
- Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions
Markus S.
Last position:
Domain Architect Core Party Data at ING DiBa AG
Technologies: Confluence, PlantUML, BPMN
- As part of the modernization of ING DiBa, the master data management system is also being renewed. As the Domain Architect for this topic, I had to find a way to combine global solution approaches from the headquarters in Amsterdam with local requirements from the German branch in Frankfurt.
Markus F.
Last position:
Logistics Expert/Coach at RAPID Technic AG
- Coaching, developing fundamentals and leading technical aspects in logistics transformation
- Extending SAP WM functionalities
- Efficiency measures in shuttle warehouse technology
- Setting up logistics operations reporting
- Comprehensive inventory planning and execution
- Preparing the technical and commercial foundations for cooperation with external logistics service providers
- Recommendations for the future process and organizational structure
Roland A.
Last position:
Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst at Init Services GmbH
- Project management: Implementation of SAP & EBX integration for master and reference data management and led development of AI supported services for data management and privacy-oriented solutions
- Business analysis: Executed in-depth requirement gathering and data analyzes for MDM implementation, supported service integration using REST APIs to enhance service interoperability, led the requirement gathering, analysis, and implementation of agent-based AI services
- Technologies: SAP BP & FICO & MM, Tibco EBX, n8n, custom AI development in Java, Python, RDBMS, cloud
Patrick R.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Swisscard AECS AG
- PoC for various platform integration functionalities using Backstage and Crossplane
- Implementation of improvements of developer experience with Azure AVD and DevSpace
- Manage application deployment infrastructure on Kubernetes clusters
- Manage CI/CD platform
- Manage deployments into Kubernetes (Rancher and AKS) and into Azure
- Act as security champion of the DevOps team
- Manage vulnerabilities and support dev teams to manage third-party vulnerabilities using JFrog Xray
- Support building the platform team
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Atlantis
- Build and integrate a platform and IDP using Crossplane
Tobias K.
Last position:
CEO, Interim Manager for Chief Data Officer & Chief Transformation Officer roles at Hyght
- Lead interim roles as Chief Data Officer and Chief Transformation Officer, orchestrating the design and execution of digital, data, and AI transformations within private equity and enterprise organizations
- Design and implement data and digital strategies that align with organizational goals, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation across business units
- Develop and implement target operating models (TOMs) to establish and restructure data, AI, and IT organizations, enhancing their alignment with business objectives
- Define and operationalize enterprise data and AI governance frameworks that ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and promote best practices across the organization
- Spearhead transformations for private equity–backed companies, ensuring operational practices align with strategic objectives to foster sustainable growth and deliver value creation
- Formulate and execute comprehensive Value Creation Plans (VCPs) that identify growth opportunities, enhance operational efficiencies, and develop revenue enhancement strategies
Bartosz P.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager, Product Owner at SoftwareONE
- Led a global enterprise-platform upgrade across 60+ countries, coordinating multiple localizations, integrations, and stakeholder groups from multiple locations, including Europe, US and India.
- Product Owner for a delivery team focused on platform usability, performance, and reliability—owning backlog, roadmap, and KPI outcomes.
- Implemented governance and audit-ready processes that made change safer and more predictable, and improved platform compliance with regulatory requirements.
Matteo G.
Last position:
Vice President IT Applications at Comet AG
- Provide global leadership for Comet’s enterprise applications and digital transformation agenda, acting as a strategic partner to the CIO and Executive Committee. Accountable for driving business value, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire enterprise systems landscape.
- Define and execute the global enterprise applications strategy across ERP, CRM, PLM, MES, HR systems (SuccessFactors, SAP HR), and Microsoft 365 (M365), ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with long-term business objectives.
- Partner with executive and regional business leaders to translate strategic objectives into actionable digital initiatives that enhance efficiency, agility, and user experience.
- Drive Agile delivery practices across cross-functional global teams using Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead a centralized and standardized global application delivery model to ensure governance, efficiency, and consistency across all regions and business units.
- Own vendor management and sourcing strategy, establishing and monitoring KPIs, SLAs, and performance metrics for application reliability, user adoption, and business impact.
- Manage multi-million euro application budgets, optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and value creation.
- Strengthen IT governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance in line with GDPR, ISO, and IFRS requirements.
- Enable IT/OT convergence by integrating SAP, MES, PLM, and production systems with enterprise platforms, ensuring secure and interoperable manufacturing and R&D architectures.
- Act as Deputy CIO, contributing to enterprise IT strategy, cybersecurity programs, risk management, and transformation initiatives.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across global IT and business teams.
- Ensure efficient and cost-effective Managed Service Provider (MSP) delivery while maintaining required service levels across all application services.
- Oversee SAP AMS and non-SAP application support teams across internal resources and external MSPs.
- Ensure high service reliability through structured Incident, Change, and Problem Management in coordination with the IT Service Delivery organization.
- Establish and continuously monitor KPIs, SLAs, and application performance dashboards to ensure service quality and business continuity.
- Coordinate L2/L3 escalation paths across internal IT teams, MSPs, and software vendors to ensure rapid issue resolution.
Ala L.
Last position:
VR/AR/ML Project Site Lead (contract by Experis) at Meta
- Acted as project lead in different internal projects, including the development and implementation of innovative solutions based on machine learning, virtual and augmented reality with the aim of providing great user experience
- Drove project planning, execution and reporting, designed risk mitigation and schedule adjustment plans to bring the projects on the green path
- Directed the process optimization and conducted project reviews by being the liaison between engineering teams and executive stakeholders
- Served as agile coach and led the scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective
Revealed U.
Last position:
Executive Enterprise Data & Analytics Advisor at A medium-size private bank
- Responsible for defining and implementing an enterprise Data Governance framework with an initial focus on BCBS-239, including Data Catalog tooling and formalized data asset ownership.
- Led the turnaround and delivery of an Enterprise Data Warehouse to support regulatory and management reporting on a robust, integrated data platform with a primary focus on Finance.
- Served as a key contributor to the bank’s Data, Analytics & AI strategy, which was subsequently approved by the management board.
Dominik D.
Last position:
Software Tester at Sitem-Insel
- Implement, execute and document tests at all levels
- Collaborate on and review test concepts
- Create test specifications
- Assist in setting up the new test environment
Arist V.
Last position:
Partner at Data Confidence GmbH
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Statistics of experts using Master Data Management
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
26 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland using Master Data Management
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Master Data Management experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (85%)
- Manufacturing (69%)
- Professional Services (69%)
- Banking and Finance (54%)
- Healthcare (46%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Energy (38%)
- Education (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What MDM does
Master Data Management, or MDM, creates consistent records for core business entities such as customers, products, suppliers, locations and legal entities. It connects data from systems that use different structures and definitions, then establishes trusted master records for operations, reporting and analytics. The goal is not simply to store data, but to make important information reliable wherever it is used.
Core capabilities
An MDM initiative can combine data modeling, matching, survivorship rules, validation, workflow and governance. Specialists define which source is authoritative, how duplicates are resolved and who may approve changes. They also design reference data structures, hierarchies and stewardship processes that remain practical for business teams.
- Define domains, attributes and ownership rules
- Match, merge and enrich duplicate records
- Build approval workflows for data stewards
- Publish trusted records to operational systems
Ecosystem and tooling
MDM work commonly connects ERP and CRM platforms with data warehouses, lakehouses, integration services and reporting tools. Professionals may work with SAP Master Data Governance, Informatica MDM, Reltio, Semarchy xDM, Profisee or custom services built around APIs and event streams. Strong delivery also requires SQL, integration patterns, identity resolution and data quality controls.
When companies need support
Companies bring in freelance MDM expertise during system consolidation, acquisitions, ERP transformation and expansion into new markets. Support is also valuable when teams cannot agree on ownership, customer records conflict across applications or product hierarchies block reliable reporting. In Switzerland, specialists may need to coordinate remote and on-site stakeholders across multilingual business units and established enterprise processes.
- Multiple systems contain conflicting customer records
- Product or supplier hierarchies are difficult to maintain
- A migration needs governed, reusable master data
- Reporting teams lack a trusted shared definition
Project deliverables
Typical deliverables include a domain model, source-to-target mappings, data quality rules, match and merge logic, governance policies and a tested integration design. Depending on the scope, a specialist may configure an MDM product, create migration routines, establish stewardship dashboards or document operating procedures. The best plan connects technical controls with measurable business ownership.
What strong specialists bring
Strong MDM professionals translate between business owners, data stewards, integration teams and security stakeholders. They challenge unclear definitions, make exceptions visible and design rules that can be maintained after handover. Look for evidence of successful data migrations, complex entity resolution, platform configuration and clear communication with non-technical users. Quality is shown through traceable decisions, trustworthy records and adoption across the systems that depend on them.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Master Data Management — answered in short.
Master Data Management is used to create consistent, governed records for entities such as customers, products, suppliers and locations. It helps organizations reduce duplicates, align definitions across applications and provide trusted data for operations, compliance and analytics.
MDM governs the core business records that applications rely on, including their ownership, quality and relationships. A data warehouse or data lake primarily stores data for analysis, while MDM focuses on creating and distributing reliable master records to operational and analytical systems.
Master Data Management work often requires data modeling, SQL, data profiling, API integration and migration planning. Useful adjacent knowledge includes ERP and CRM processes, identity resolution, data governance, cloud services and change management for data stewardship teams.
MDM projects vary widely, from improving one domain to coordinating records across a global application landscape. The right specialist should have delivered work with a similar number of domains, source systems, data quality issues and governance complexity rather than relying on a generic experience label.
Master Data Management can often be delivered remotely because much of the work involves workshops, configuration, mapping and testing in shared systems. On-site sessions may still help with stewardship design, process discovery or stakeholder alignment, especially when teams are distributed across language regions.
MDM platform selection should follow the business domains, integration landscape and governance model, not only product features. Compare matching capabilities, workflow, hierarchy management, APIs, deployment options, stewardship usability and the effort required to maintain rules over time.
Master Data Management quality is visible in clear ownership, documented definitions, explainable match decisions and stable interfaces to connected systems. Ask a specialist to show how they measure duplicates, completeness, validity, approval performance and the effect of changes on downstream processes.
MDM freelancers may deliver a domain model, source mappings, data quality rules, match and merge configuration, migration routines and governance documentation. They may also configure SAP Master Data Governance, Informatica MDM, Reltio or another selected product, then support testing and handover.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Master Data Management in their recent projects is 146 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,167 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Master Data Management in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Master Data Management in their recent projects have 26 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Master Data Management in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Master Data Management in their recent projects are Information Technology (85%), Manufacturing (69%), and Professional Services (69%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Master Data Management in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Business Intelligence (85%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Master Data Management
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Countries:
- Germany
- Switzerland
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