Microsoft 365 Expert in Austria
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Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Artellico / Own company for AI governance and data products
- Consulting and interim management at the intersection of IT operations and regulation
- Impact assessment and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Teaching assignments in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at Hochschule Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of Master's theses and participation on examination boards
- Industry talks for businesses and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and Zero-Knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- Integration with bank account systems using SEPA direct debit mandates and message formats under ISO 20022 (pain.008, camt.053)
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under my own brand: shared codebase, separate deployment for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe-coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Professional publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Professional publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
Claus E.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager at Aconext Engineering GmbH
- Management of complex projects in technology-driven and regulated environments
- Overall responsibility for the planning, management and implementation of projects across multiple departments
- Responsibility for budget, resources, timelines, and risk and change management
- Leadership and coordination of interdisciplinary project teams of up to 25 employees
- Central interface between clients, specialist departments, external partners and management
- Establishment of structured project and reporting processes for transparent management
- Ensuring the on-time implementation of projects in demanding and regulated project environments.
Thomas P.
Last position:
Change Manager / AI-driven Finance Transformation at Agrana
Organizational Change Management for the strategic setup of a hybrid GBS rollout as part of a global, AI-driven Finance Transformation. End-to-end management of the OCM architecture in a highly complex on-, near-, and offshore partner setup [IN, PL, RO]. Successful completion of Phase 1 (Initial Strategy) and strategic pausing by the Executive Board after the early disclosure of critical vendor-side OPEX risks
Systemic Baseline Assessment & Stakeholder Diagnostics: Evaluation of the global organization and analysis of the process landscape across 21 countries [AT, DE, CH, FR, UK, SI, RO, UA, RU, US, CD, CN, AR, MX, ZA, IN, JP] to precisely determine change requirements
Architecting the OCM Strategy & Master Roadmap: Independent development of a comprehensive, AI-centered Change Roadmap for end-to-end management of all change initiatives across every project phase
Data Quality & AI Agent Risk Mitigation: Auditing of Process Data Repositories (Celonis analysis); prevention of the ingestion of 58% synthetic training data to safeguard AI model reliability amid geopolitical supply chain tensions
GBS Vendor BAFO Triage & Contractual Commitment: Critical review of Tier-1 vendor pitches and contractual commitment to a reduced Non-STP rate (from 7% to 4%) to avoid extreme manual rework with a planned FTE reduction (-63%)
Executive Enablement & Board Alignment: Design of the GBS Transformation Executive Board Deck to strategically enable C-level executives and transparently present completely overlooked AI tokenization costs
Targeted Change Communications & Engagement: Design and development of audience-specific communication measures to align the highly diverse, globally distributed stakeholder network
Adoption Velocity & Resistance Measurement: Engineering of quantitative measurement tools (Pulse Check Survey) using Behavioral Dyads to identify resistance based on data and ensure sustainable success measurement
Results:
- Avoidance of disruptive misallocations: Stopping the ingestion of 58% synthetic AI-agent training data after discovering only 42% compatibility with existing processes, preventing critical GBS cascade errors
- Significant OPEX & effort reduction: Reduction of the Non-STP rate in Tier-1 vendor BAFOs from 7% to 4% alongside an impending 63% Finance-FTE reduction; avoidance of thousands of time-consuming manual correction processes
- 100% Delivery of the OCM architecture & ROI protection: Delivery of all OCM artifacts (Change Roadmap, Comms Plan, Executive Board Deck, Pulse Check Survey) and protection of ROI by identifying incalculable LLM runtime token costs
Burkhard B.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager / Service Manager / Datacenter Lead at Infosys
TAF-P
Strategic IT transformation partnership covering infrastructure transformation, hybrid-cloud migration, data-centre consolidation and transformation of IT operating models.
- Managed integration of services from transition through transformation.
- Acted as customer-facing Single Point of Contact between Mercedes-Benz, Infosys and third-party providers.
- Managed stakeholder relationships, demand, escalations and service delivery.
- Established structured communication and governance with IT management and executives.
- Coordinated transition and transformation activities across multiple parties.
- Managed SLA-related activities and service governance.
- Coordinated third-party suppliers and delivery teams.
- Managed procurement activities from demand/forecast through delivery and invoicing.
- Supported transition activities and customer sign-off.
- Coordinated knowledge-transfer and documentation activities.
Environment: Enterprise infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Data Centres, Service Transition, IT Governance, Vendor Management
Christian S.
Last position:
PMO Project Management at Neuroth AG
- Project management in the PMO
- Further development of PMO and operational processes
- Development of templates and project documentation
- Management of a DACH/SOE-wide rollout project
Claudia P.
Last position:
Self-employed Trainer & Learning Design at makting points matter
Project-based work on learning formats for professional development, focusing on practical delivery, digital implementation and transfer.
- Delivery of practical training for employees in the hotel industry
- Development of multi-stage learning architectures for in-person, online and individual learning formats
Marko A.
Last position:
Program Lead | Agile Transformation Coach at EnBW
Technologies: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Office 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Copilot, Excel, SharePoint, Forms, OneNote, PowerAutomate, Word), DataDog, Conceptboard, Python, AWS, Claude, Perplexity Methodology: Scrum
- Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a SAFe-inspired quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning at program level.
- Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value creation for internal and external customers.
- Designing and building efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and central stakeholders in the organization.
- Moderating and facilitating cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
- Coaching leaders, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
- Removing structural obstacles at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
- Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
- Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their impact in the transformation program.
- Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
- Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, business value prioritization, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
- Introducing, governing, and scaling Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization on usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.
Achievements:
- Clear increase in visibility, transparency, and perceived value creation of the development teams within the overall organization.
- Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
- Optimization of work processes, workflow, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.
Christian E.
Last position:
Cyber Trust Austria Silver Certification at PrimeFaktor GmbH
Cyber Trust Austria Silver Certification
- Led application and implementation of the Cyber Trust Austria Silver label (KSV1870 Cyber Risk A-Rating; 25 validated controls)
- Mapped and fulfilled requirements covering risk management, incident response, access control, vulnerability and penetration testing, BCM, and supply-chain security, aligned with ISO/IEC 27001/27002 control themes and NIS 2 / NISG 2026 expectations
- Coordinated stakeholders, compiled audit evidence, and completed KSV1870 validation
Christina D.
Last position:
Community Manager Social Intranet at Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK)
- Support for the introduction of new digital exchange and communication structures as part of an organization-wide transformation project
- Conception, setup, and operational management of Viva Engage communities within the intranet as part of the rollout of new digital exchange and communication formats
- Planning and support of the pilot phase and the initial operational phase, including feedback and optimization loops
- Onboarding and enablement of employees and leaders in the use of new digital exchange formats
- Development of change management and activation measures to drive participation and adoption
- Moderation of discussions and creation of guidelines, FAQs, and netiquette
- Editorial and content strategy, including leadership communication
- Adaptation and implementation of central concepts and communication guidelines to organization-specific requirements
- Monitoring, reporting, and derivation of optimization measures
- Coordination with IT, data protection, communications, and business units
Alexander K.
Last position:
Senior Manager, Project Management, Scrum, Recruiting, Business Development, Sales at Accilium GmbH
- Focus on digital transformation in the energy and mobility sector, including SAP R3 transition to S/4HANA
- Project management and requirements engineering in the energy sector (workshops, requirement specification creation, process development)
- Advice on the mobility strategy for public transport/transport of Stadtwerke Wien
- Development of digital strategies for after-sales program at Daimler-Benz
Markus F.
Last position:
Managing Director & Senior Consultant at IT-Trail GmbH
- Custom software development
- Web hosting
- Support
- DevOps
- Technologies: C#, Node.js, Web, Windows, Linux, SQL, MS365, Azure, AWS
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Developers, ~10 Teams, per Team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD pipelines, Azure Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnd, Test Automation)
- AI, Copilot, creating Test Templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit and Integration Tests
- Automated E2E Tests, Playwright Test Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Shipment tracking
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into AzureDataLake
Laura H.
Last position:
Sr. BI Consultant & Project Manager at Multivariata
- Project Lead, Sr. BI Expert, Data Scientist, Automation Engineer for Marketing Analytics | Customer Insights (retail, e-commerce)
- Product Manager: Asset Metadata Ingest & Provide
- Product Owner Business Intelligence – responsible for 2 teams: cloud data engineering, data warehouse (logistics)
- Product Owner for setting up a reporting platform on Azure & Power BI (finance)
Matthias M.
Last position:
IT Consultant at Backup4U Datenverarbeitung GmbH
- Role-based access control (RBAC) for dmTECH across the DM Group (2024–2026)
- Completion of the Lotus Notes replacement for R-IT (2023–2024)
- Further development of IAM for dmTECH (2023–2024)
- Realignment of test infrastructure and test management for dmTECH/IAM (2023–2024)
- Further development of IAM for 28,000 employees (project for dmTECH, Germany, 2023)
- Completion of the Lotus Notes replacement for R-IT customers Raiffeisen Landesbank and bank branches (2023)
- Completion of the IAM implementation for >50.000 employees (2022)
- Replacement of an in-house remote access solution with PAM/cyberark (2022)
- Implementation of IAM for <1.000 employees (project for card complete, Austria, 2022)
Herbert F.
Last position:
Pentest Center of Excellence - Strategy & Implementation at Cybersecurity & IT Risk Managed Services
- Built board/management business-case scenarios; assessed services, vendors, contracts and financials; defined target operating model, service catalogue, organization, processes and tooling.
- Implemented near-shore CoE in Romania and supported rollout to an international insurance group
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Statistics of experts using Microsoft 365
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
3.3 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Human Resources
Bachelor's degree or higher
85%
Master's degree or higher
63%
Doctorate
4%
Certifications per freelancer
7
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
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 Austria 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.
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Explore rate insightsAverage rates of experts in Austria using Microsoft 365
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.
Microsoft 365 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 (84%)
- Professional Services (65%)
- Banking and Finance (55%)
- Manufacturing (45%)
- Healthcare (42%)
- Transportation (42%)
- Government and Administration (35%)
- Retail (35%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Microsoft 365 covers
Microsoft 365 combines productivity applications, cloud services, collaboration tools and security capabilities for modern workplaces. It includes familiar products such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint alongside Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Intune and Microsoft Entra ID. Companies use it to support communication, document work, identity management and device access from a connected cloud environment.
Core solutions
Microsoft 365 supports both daily operations and larger workplace programmes. Teams provides meetings, chat and shared workspaces, while SharePoint structures intranets, portals and document libraries. OneDrive supports personal work files, Exchange Online handles business email, and Power Platform can extend the environment with workflows, apps and dashboards.
- Configure Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive collaboration spaces
- Connect Microsoft 365 with business applications and directories
- Build Power Automate workflows and Power Apps solutions
- Establish document governance and information architecture
Security and administration
Strong specialists work across identity, access, devices, data and compliance. They configure Microsoft Entra ID, conditional access, multifactor authentication, Microsoft Defender and Intune policies. They also manage licensing, tenant settings, retention, audit controls and permissions without creating unnecessary barriers for users.
When companies need expertise
Freelance expertise is useful during tenant migrations, hybrid identity projects, merger integrations and workplace rollouts. Companies also bring in specialists when Teams or SharePoint has grown without clear governance, when security policies need improvement, or when adoption remains low. In Austria, professionals may support distributed teams while coordinating with local stakeholders on site or remotely.
- Move mailboxes, files and collaboration data into Microsoft 365
- Redesign SharePoint sites, permissions and content structures
- Introduce secure device and access management with Intune
- Create adoption plans, training material and operating procedures
Connected ecosystem
Microsoft 365 connects with Windows, Azure, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform and many business systems. Useful adjacent skills include scripting with PowerShell, Graph API integrations, identity federation, endpoint management, data protection and service management. A project may also require knowledge of legacy Office environments, Active Directory or third-party security tools.
Signs of strong expertise
Good professionals begin with business processes, information risks and user needs rather than product settings alone. They document decisions, test policies with realistic scenarios and separate privileged access from everyday work. They can explain trade-offs clearly, transfer operational knowledge and leave behind a maintainable tenant that internal teams can manage confidently.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Microsoft 365.
Companies use Microsoft 365 for email, meetings, chat, document collaboration, intranets, file storage, identity, device management and workplace security. The right setup connects these services to business processes instead of treating each application as a separate tool.
Microsoft 365 is often chosen when a company depends on Office applications, Windows, Active Directory or Microsoft security services. Google Workspace offers a browser-first collaboration model, while the better choice depends on existing systems, compliance needs, user habits and the level of desktop integration required.
A strong Microsoft 365 specialist may also work with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Intune and Microsoft Defender. Experience with migration planning, information governance, endpoint security and change management is valuable for complex assignments.
The required experience depends on the scope. A focused Teams or SharePoint configuration needs practical product knowledge, while a tenant migration, hybrid identity design or security transformation calls for a professional who can plan dependencies, manage risks and coordinate several technical workstreams.
Much of Microsoft 365 administration, configuration and documentation can be completed remotely because the environment is cloud-based. On-site collaboration can still help with workshops, device rollouts or stakeholder alignment, especially when teams operate across Austrian offices.
Ask for concrete examples of tenant migrations, governance models, security policies or adoption programmes similar to yours. A capable Microsoft 365 freelancer should explain their method, clarify assumptions, document changes and show how they test access, recovery and user impact.
Microsoft 365 provides controls for identity, auditing, retention, data classification and threat protection, but suitability depends on configuration and organisational requirements. A qualified professional should map those requirements to the relevant services and document permissions, policies, data locations and operating procedures.
Typical deliverables include a configured tenant, migration plan, identity and access policies, SharePoint information architecture, Teams governance, Intune profiles, security documentation and user guidance. With Microsoft 365, quality also means clear handover material and a design that internal teams can operate safely.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Microsoft 365 in their recent projects is 106 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 850 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Microsoft 365 in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 63% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Microsoft 365 in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Microsoft 365 in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (23%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Microsoft 365 in their recent projects are Information Technology (84%), Professional Services (65%), and Banking and Finance (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Microsoft 365 in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Project Management (94%), and Operations (58%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Microsoft 365
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.
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- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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