Microsoft SQL Server Experts in Germany
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Khalid El Mansouri
Last position:
Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting
Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.
Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.
Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.
Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.
Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.
Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.
Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.
Christian Fritsch
Last position:
Architecture Management at Agency
Expert in the company's architecture management area
Support for standardizing the company's IT landscape
Further development of architecture management
Shaping the company's business architecture
Restructuring, administration and maintenance of all IT assets
Support in creating a unified software asset management and CMDB
Creation of unified document management (e-file)
Transition of documents into a central DMS structure
Link between architecture management and the department's internal business process management
Support in developing strategic and tactical development plans
Organizing communication with key stakeholders
Support in the conception, organization and coordination of the architecture office to be built up
Accompanying and advising the entire architecture management process
Advising the company's business units on architectural topics and their framework conditions
MS Office, Windows 10, VBA
ITIL, TOGAF, PowerBi, Kanban, Scrum
Internal agency tools
Open Touch Conversation, Webex, wire, bdbos
MS Sharepoint, JIRA, Confluence
ARIS, Archimate, BPMN
Tobias Mönch
Last position:
Power BI Expert at MID-SIZED RETAIL COMPANY FOR CLEANING TECHNOLOGY AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS
Reporting and controlling with Power BI for a productive ERP system
- Analysis of ERP data and interfaces for use in Power BI dashboards
- Evaluation and migration of existing reports (e.g. Excel) to Power BI
- Development of an access rights concept for selective data access
- Documentation and training on how to use and adapt the Power BI dashboards
Label: Power BI, Excel, SelectLine ERP, Microsoft SQL, SQL Server Management Studio
Alwin G.
Last position:
IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist
- AI product development: Design of an AI-supported GRC platform to automate compliance processes.
- AI expertise: Strategic deepening in Agentic AI and GenAI as a core asset for modern IT governance
- IT interim management and strategic consulting
Markus Halbedel
Last position:
Senior M365 Consultant at BITMARCK GmbH
Creation of concepts for M365 implementation, especially Tenants, EntraID, EntraConnect and ExchangeOnline, taking BAS standards into account (mandatory baseline security requirements) in the project "Concept M365" with the aim of transferring the concepts to the M365 environments of Bitmarck and then handing them over to the customer.
- Creation of a current-state analysis of the existing M365 environments as well as the on-premises environments and the BAS standards.
- Creation of concepts for the topics Tenants, EntraID, EntraConnect and ExchangeOnline taking the BAS standards into account
- Design and implementation of an automated solution for creating standardized M365 tenants based on Microsoft M365 DSC (Desired State Configuration)
- Transfer of the concepts into the M365 environments
- Creation of detailed technical documentation
Fadi Shoaa
Last position:
Development of a production-ready Enterprise Document AI & Recommendation Platform at Freelancer
- Development of a production-ready Enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
- Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing business processes
- Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
- Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a base for analytics and machine learning models
- Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
- Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production use
- Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes
Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation
Ornel Franck Wora Yeno
Last position:
Purchasing Manager, Logistics & IT Manager at Onlinehandler
Proactive support of management in business field development & innovation management
New development of a suite of business applications for analyzing valuation, P&L, and market price risk data
Automation of all internal and external business and work processes
Development of AI-based and AI-supported ETL processes as well as data analysis
Business use-case development
Business and work process optimization
Enterprise architecture management
Sales data analysis and forecasting as well as capture
Inventory management & reordering
Supplier management and communication
Customs processing & clearance
Shipping handling & warehouse coordination
Interface management
Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, JTL-Wawi, JTL-WMS, OTTO Partner Connect (OPC), Amazon Seller Central, DHL Global Forwarding, Jira, Draw.IO, Java (8,17,21,25), Jenkins, SonarQube, Git, Gitea, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL, Docker, Local LLMs, Postman, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports
Yusuf Demirci
Last position:
Senior Project Management Transformation & Data at BG-PREVENT
Nationwide service provider for occupational medicine, occupational safety, and health management with a focus on prevention, health, and digital transformation.
- Role: Responsible for building and further developing professional project portfolio management in the area of Digital Transformation & Data. Steering and supporting strategic IT and transformation projects as well as supporting the introduction and establishment of project management standards, methods, and governance structures.
Focus areas:
- Build-up and further development of IT project portfolio management
- Analysis and structuring of business and technical requirements
- Steering and coordination of cross-functional IT initiatives
- Stakeholder management at business, management, and service provider level
- Introduction and further development of project management methods and tools (including Jira, Confluence, MS Planner)
- Preparation of decision bases, target visions, and implementation concepts in the context of digital transformation
- Steering and coordination of transformation, digitalization, and organizational projects
- Preparation of decision papers and management documents for steering committees
- Running workshops and stakeholder management with business units and IT teams
- Definition of requirements for dashboards, reporting, and KPI steering
- Support in the project Wissenskompass (requirements analysis and MVP concept)
- Analysis and evaluation of AI support options in knowledge management
- Investigation of AI use cases to improve knowledge provision and use
- Consideration of AI requirements as part of the Wissenskompass concept
- Coordination with strategic business units on the further development of project management standards
- Introduction, configuration, and training of Microsoft Planner to support project and task management
- Conducting user training and supporting employees in the introduction of new ways of working and tools
Rudolf Eggelbusch
Last position:
Datacenter Engineer, Network & Security Administrator at International insurance group
Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.
Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.
Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.
Firewall vulnerability analysis.
Firewall rule approvals.
Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.
Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.
Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5
Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI
Maciej Sawicki
Last position:
Product Owner at Bundesagentur fĂĽr Arbeit
- As part of the project, the further development of the identity management system was driven forward. This included a comprehensive refactoring of the interfaces to the connected target systems. In addition, several special systems were successfully connected to the IAM to ensure end-to-end identity and authorization management.
- Technical design and solution proposals for IAM system development
- Requirements analysis and requirements management (IREB, BABOK)
- Alignment of the strategy with the future target architecture (TOGAF)
- Prototyping of solutions
- Documentation of requirements (Innovator)
- Analysis and documentation of requirements and creation of process models (UML, BPMN, ArchiMate)
- Modeling of requirements and system functionalities (OOA/OOD, UML)
- Further development of interfaces (SOAP, REST)
- Carrying out architecture reviews
Karen Manukyan
Last position:
Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI
Product:
- Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
- Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
- Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
- Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
- Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.
Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems
- Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
- Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
Christian R
Last position:
Project Manager Outlook and Teams Rollout at BWI
- Gathering information
- Creating wave concepts for the rollout
- Coordinating employees
- Monitoring and steering measures
- Project management including analyses & reporting to the board
- Creating instructions and requirement specifications
- Training floorwalkers
- On-site rollout support
- VIP support
- Introducing SharePoint
Wolfgang Orgler
Last position:
Business Analyst at Ă–sterreichische Post AG
IT systems: Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Opal/Repost, JustinMind, Monday, SAP
Analysis of requirements for branch software
Coordination of intercultural teams
Partly agile project organization
Master data management / DMS
UI/UX design and mockup creation
Requirements documentation
Digitalization of signatures
Stakeholder management and workshop facilitation
Billing/bank transfer
Business analysis / requirements engineering
Matthias Spiller
Last position:
Software Developer and Consultant at CLADE GmbH
- Analysis of the existing CAN communication between microcontrollers
- Analysis of the sensors used and the measured values collected
- Planning the CAN messages for transmitting the measured values
- Iterative adjustment of the microcontroller code to the new CAN messages
- Cross-compilation from x64 to arm64
Timo Bakenecker
Last position:
Freelancer (self-employed) at enorin GmbH
- Mendix low-code development / project management
- Managing external resources
- Customer and user management, roles
- Master data entry
- Quote preparation
- Material costing
- Workflows
- Basic CRM functions
- API interfaces (email, SMS, AI chatbot)
- PDF API (.NET development using Aspose.PDF)
- Stakeholder management (dev teams, enorin team, test client)
- Risk management (backend access & sizing, role concepts)
- Testing and staff training
- Creating epics and stories in Confluence
- Jira Scrum planning and management
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Statistics of experts using Microsoft SQL Server
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
3.1 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
84%
Master's degree or higher
49%
Doctorate
8%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using Microsoft SQL Server
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What SQL Server does
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database system for applications that need reliable storage, fast queries, and controlled access to business data. It supports OLTP systems, reporting workloads, and mixed environments where data must be stable and traceable.
Common project work
- Database design for new applications
- T-SQL development for procedures, views, and jobs
- Performance tuning for slow queries and blocking
- Backup, restore, and disaster recovery setup
- Migration from older SQL Server versions or other databases
Tools and ecosystem
Strong professionals working with SQL Server usually know SSMS, SQL Agent, SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS, plus monitoring and backup tooling. They also work with Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance when a team wants cloud operations without losing the SQL Server model.
When companies bring in help
Freelance expertise is common when a release is blocked by a deadlock issue, a migration needs careful planning, or a database has grown messy over time. Teams in Germany also use outside specialists for short on-site workshops, remote troubleshooting, and handover support when internal coverage is thin.
What strong specialists deliver
Good Microsoft SQL Server experts do more than write queries. They read execution plans, index for the workload, protect sensitive data, and document changes so operations teams can support the system after delivery.
Where it fits
SQL Server is used in finance, manufacturing, retail, logistics, and internal business systems that depend on reporting and transaction control. It also appears in integration layers, ETL processes, and legacy estates that still need careful maintenance while new services are added.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Microsoft SQL Server? Start with the answers below.
Microsoft SQL Server is used to store, query, and protect business data for transactional applications, reporting systems, and internal tools. It is a common choice when teams need controlled access, strong consistency, and mature administration features.
SQL Server is often chosen for its integrated tooling, enterprise administration features, and strong fit with Microsoft-based environments. PostgreSQL and MySQL are valid alternatives, but SQL Server is often preferred when a team already depends on T-SQL, SSMS, or Microsoft cloud services.
A strong SQL Server specialist should know T-SQL, indexing, execution plans, backups, restores, and troubleshooting for blocking or deadlocks. Skills around SSIS, SSRS, high availability, and Azure SQL are often useful as well.
The right level depends on the task. Schema design or a production migration needs a specialist with deep database experience, while a simple report fix or stored procedure review may need only focused support from a practical Microsoft SQL Server professional.
Most Microsoft SQL Server work can be done remotely because schema reviews, query tuning, and deployment support do not require physical access. On-site help in Germany is useful when a team wants workshop sessions, stakeholder interviews, or direct support during a critical change window.
Slow reports, long-running transactions, failed backups, repeated restore test issues, and unclear ownership are all signs that a Microsoft SQL Server specialist can help. Another common signal is when the team has grown beyond the original design and needs a cleanup plan before the system becomes harder to run.
Ask for examples of similar databases, the kinds of problems they solved, and how they document changes. For SQL Server, strong candidates explain their approach to performance, recovery, and risk, not just the tools they know.
Yes, in many projects it is. A capable SQL Server expert should understand how on-premises databases differ from Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance, especially around maintenance, high availability, and migration paths.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects is 98 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 783 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects, 84% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 49% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects are German (99%), English (96%), and French (21%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Banking and Finance (53%), and Manufacturing (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects are Information Technology (99%), Product Development (75%), and Project Management (68%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Microsoft SQL Server
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