MiFID II Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used MiFID II
Onur K.
Last position:
Project Manager & Outsourcing Manager at SENEC GmbH (EnBW Group)
- Built a scalable nearshore IT developer hub (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland) as an independent company through a BOT model (Build – Operate – Transfer)
- Identified, selected, and managed full-service agencies; introduced management and control mechanisms, including KPIs, SLAs, and regular service reviews
- Prepared and reviewed data processing agreements and framework contracts in coordination with Legal & Compliance; integrated regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into process design
- Advised on cloud vs. on-premise strategies, data storage, and authorization concepts; supported Procurement with tendering and service provider evaluations
- Managed change and process harmonization between internal teams and nearshore partners; reported to executive management, CFO, and CIO
Result: Scalable IT developer hub with an audit-ready governance model, reduced operating costs, and accelerated product development.
Olga L.
Last position:
Business Analyst at VisualVest (Union Investment)
- Analyzed, structured, and documented business requirements for digital investment solutions, such as robo-advisors.
- Designed applications for new retirement products, including user flows, UX requirements, and functional specifications.
- Modeled and optimized business processes and coordinated with stakeholders while taking regulatory requirements in the financial sector into account.
Sergei M.
Last position:
Interim Program Manager at parcIT
Time-limited interim assignment filling a vacant program leadership position: joint leadership of a complex software project and orchestration of several agile teams (business, development, and DevOps teams), as well as actively driving change processes.
- Program Management & Planning: Responsibility for creating and updating milestone, resource, and budget plans to ensure project objectives using agile and hybrid methods.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Promoting cooperation and knowledge sharing across teams; resolving blockers through proactive conflict management and targeted facilitation.
- Stakeholder Management & Transparency: Ensuring transparent and audience-appropriate communication within and outside the project organization using modern project management tools.
Florian B.
Last position:
Project Management / PMO Consultant
PMO & Project Organization Blueprint for Restructuring
Renewable Energy / Solar Equipment
Technologies / Methods: PMO setup, KPI tracking, project organization, Jira, Confluence
- Developed measures to improve management control during a restruct...
Minh D.
Last position:
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager at Finance and Insurance
Introduction of 5 different process applications for different teams
Release planning: scope and time management
Resource/capacity planning
Conducting Sprint Planning / retrospectives
Increment planning (several sprints)
Preparation of Steering Committee meetings / reporting to the Board
Coordination / alignment with external suppliers / deliveries
Resource planning for multiple projects
Coordination with business department and development team
Identification of best practices with IBM BAW
Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers
Collection of KPIs using LogScale
Analysis of application errors with LogScale / Queries
User Story definitions / coordination of requirements with the business department and development team
Testing and defect tracking
UI/UX design of applications
Preparation and moderation of Brown-Paper workshops
Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution
Collection of team velocity / metrics
Test execution
Script for automated testing
Test organization with business department and IT
Recording and prioritization of defects
Establishment and operation of the application
Establishment of application monitoring with LogScale Dashboards
Checking health endpoints with PowerShell
Post Mortem analysis
Establishment of Incident Management
Establishment of Problem Management
Analysis of errors using LogScale Queries and Dashboard
Pre-processing of data for AI
Evaluation using AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG
Installation of runtime environments for LLMs (Large Language Model)
Evaluation of various LLMs
Installation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and integration with LLM
Extraction of unstructured data with LLM and RAG
Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), Websphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, Powershell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber
Ronald F.
Last position:
Senior IT Consultant – Requirement Engineer at Deutsche Bank - Strivion
Methodology: Agile project management
Goal: Digitization and implementation of CCD2 requirements within the Consumer Finance systems.
Analysis, identification, and assessment of business requirements, as well as their transfer into technical implementation requirements. Coordination and status reporting of the various requirements. Documentation and process management using UML and BMPN. Cross-functional stakeholder management, UAT testing, data management, API architecture management.
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Visual Code, Sql Developer, Enterprise Architect, MsOffice, Bruno, ALM, Camunda, Figma
Mischa G.
Last position:
Non-Financial Risk Officer at Nationale-Nederlanden
- Temporary cover for an absent non-financial risk officer.
- Operational scope: incident intake and follow-up, internal control testing, and first-line reporting for the Belgian entity.
Axel Z.
Last position:
Project Manager at NTT Global Data Centers
- Project lead
- Coordinated the rollout of 148 firewalls (Palo Alto) for 74 buildings at over 14 locations in EMEA
- Managed the team (8 employees)
- Communicated with Senior Management (local) and Site Managers (EMEA)
- Ensured work packages were completed on time and to requirements, and formally accepted
- Extensive use of relevant Microsoft tools
- Wrike (project management)
Christopher Z.
Last position:
IT Product Manager / Product Owner / Transformation Consultant at Leading German financial services provider
Further development & digitalization of key sales and application processes in a regulated banking environment, including requirements structuring, roadmap development and AI-supported use case assessment
Responsibilities & Impact:
- Management of existing digital products to ensure stable operations (Keep the lights on) amid growing regulatory complexity
- Product vision and development of a consistent, implementable roadmap
- Strategic backlog prioritization based on business goals, dependencies and technical feasibility
- Coordination of release planning, backlog, quality assurance and go-live readiness with business departments, IT, implementation teams and management
- Identification, structuring and assessment of AI-supported use cases at the interface of business departments, IT and the regulatory environment
- Analysis, structuring and translation of complex business requirements into epics and user stories
- Facilitation of team, stakeholder & alignment formats to ensure clarity of objectives, collaboration and decision-making ability
- Transparency on capacities, dependencies, delivery status and KPI/status aspects as a basis for product & management decisions
- Compliance with transparent structures and documentation (LeanIX, application profiles, runbooks)
Contribution to results:
Stabilization and further development of key financial processes under high regulatory and technical complexity. Improved transparency, decision-making ability and implementability through structured requirements, auditable documentation and AI-supported ways of working.
Jun J.
Last position:
Senior Business Analyst at MaSt Services GmbH & Co. KG
- Development, maintenance, and execution of „Regulatory Transaction Reporting“ (MiFIR & Dodd-Frank)
- Business and IT specification, testing, and business analysis in the banking systems environment of Summit, Murex, and Calypso, particularly in migration projects.
- Development, maintenance, and execution of P&L and risk reporting.
- Liaison between the business department and IT in an agile project environment.
Gio K.
Last position:
Business Analyst – Corporate Actions at WM Gruppe
- Collaborated with business specialists to introduce a new IT platform for master data/market data in corporate actions for equities, bonds, and derivatives
- Documented concepts and functionalities in Confluence
- Created user stories in Jira
- Actively participated in daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Acted as proxy product owner for requirements related to complex corporate actions
Bastian I.
Last position:
Senior Backend Engineer Go & Technical Consultant at Regulated trading system for digital assets
- Technical consulting to meet regulatory MiCA requirements for a digital trading platform
- Design and development of backend components and APIs to comply with transparency and auditability requirements
- Optimization of core functions in order execution and market data delivery with a focus on performance and reliability under high load
- Conducting job interviews and structured onboarding of new developers
- Successful and timely implementation of the regulatory MiCA requirements, ensuring uninterrupted operations
- Reduction of user issues and common support requests by fixing complex backend problems
- Strengthening the development team through effective onboarding, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
Christian S.
Last position:
Operation Manager at Xerof
- Working within a Swiss-regulated Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) offering institutional-grade crypto-fiat financial solutions
- Contributed to on-/off-ramp infrastructure enabling clients to convert between cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies
- Supported the rollout of Web3 payments & third-party payment services to streamline crypto operations for businesses
- Engaged with AML/KYC / regulatory compliance to ensure operations met Swiss regulatory standards
- Assisted in product development or deployment for crypto-backed real estate / luxury goods transactions
- Collaborated with institutional and high-net-worth clients to tailor crypto / financial services offerings
- Bridged traditional banking and Web3 by reducing frictions in fiat-crypto transactions
Natascha K.
Last position:
Business Analyst DORA and System Architecture at PSVaG
- DORA consulting and system optimization
- Process analysis of existing business processes that are complex from both a business and technical point of view
- Analysis of the individual business processes in the relevant business areas Trading, Back Office, Settlement, Custodian Bank
- Interface between the business units and IT to understand and define requirements
- Creation of a business concept incl. adjustments and implementation of software applications and their interfaces to the systems
- Preparation of a decision template for the management board for project approval
- Setting up and running project meetings with the relevant stakeholders and documenting them
- Close collaboration with the stakeholders
- Coordination and control of the analysis
- Creation and planning of resources and budget
- Onboarding of large banks (Asia and Eastern Europe) for Depot B
- Migration of portfolio holdings (volume around EUR 70-100 million)
Mario P.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
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Statistics of experts using MiFID II
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
55%
Doctorate
6%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, 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 Germany 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 Germany using MiFID II
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.
MiFID II experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Banking and Finance (100%)
- Information Technology (68%)
- Transportation (32%)
- Professional Services (32%)
- Insurance (30%)
- Government and Administration (30%)
- Energy (27%)
- Manufacturing (24%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Regulatory Scope
MiFID II, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, governs how investment firms and trading venues operate across the European financial market. It covers investor protection, market transparency, product governance, trade execution and the records firms must maintain. Its requirements affect banks, brokers, asset managers, investment firms and trading venues.
Reporting Workflows
Specialists translate regulatory duties into controlled operational processes. They help establish transaction reporting, trade reconstruction, reference-data management and instrument classification. Projects may also cover best-execution evidence, costs and charges disclosures, suitability assessments, appropriateness checks and telephone or electronic communications records.
- Map trade data from front-office and execution systems
- Validate reporting fields and submission workflows
- Reconcile records across internal and external sources
- Document controls, ownership and audit evidence
Tools And Integration
MiFID II work connects legal interpretation with financial technology. Professionals often work with order and execution management systems, market-data feeds, regulatory reporting services, data warehouses and compliance monitoring tools. Useful adjacent knowledge includes ISO 20022, FIX, SQL, APIs, reference data, cloud infrastructure and data-quality controls.
When To Hire
Companies bring in freelance specialists during regulatory change, reporting remediation, system implementation or control reviews. External expertise is valuable when internal teams need a clear gap assessment, extra delivery capacity or an independent view of reporting accuracy. In Germany, collaboration may involve local compliance stakeholders, European operating models and German or English documentation.
- Prepare for a new reporting or trading workflow
- Investigate rejected, incomplete or inconsistent reports
- Connect compliance requirements with technology delivery
- Improve evidence for audits and supervisory reviews
Strong Professionals
A capable MiFID II professional combines regulatory judgment with practical delivery skills. They can explain why a requirement matters, trace data from source to report and define controls that teams can operate every day. Look for experience with the relevant asset classes, trading models, reporting regimes and governance processes rather than policy knowledge alone.
Project Fit
Before engaging a freelancer, define the instruments, jurisdictions, systems and reporting obligations in scope. Clarify whether the work needs regulatory analysis, business process design, data investigation, testing, implementation support or remediation. Remote delivery can work well when access, documentation and decision paths are organized; on-site workshops may help when several control owners must align.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with MiFID II? These answers cover the essentials.
MiFID II sets rules for investment services, trading venues and financial instruments in the European Union. It supports investor protection, market transparency, fair execution, product governance and detailed recordkeeping.
MiFID II is the directive that sets many conduct, organizational and market-structure requirements for investment firms. MiFIR is the accompanying regulation, with directly applicable rules that include transaction transparency and reporting obligations.
A strong MiFID II specialist may also understand MiFIR, EMIR, MAR, GDPR, AML controls and local supervisory expectations. Technical work often benefits from knowledge of FIX, ISO 20022, SQL, APIs, reference data and regulatory reporting services.
The right MiFID II experience depends on the scope and risk of the work. A reporting remediation needs hands-on data and control knowledge, while a policy review may call for deeper regulatory interpretation; complex projects often require both.
MiFID II projects can often be delivered remotely when specialists have secure system access, reliable documentation and clear stakeholder ownership. On-site workshops can still be useful for process mapping, control design and alignment between compliance, operations and technology teams in Germany.
Assess MiFID II work by tracing requirements to documented processes, data fields, controls and test evidence. A strong professional explains assumptions, identifies gaps, records decisions and shows how teams will monitor the result after delivery.
MiFID II expertise is relevant to banks, brokers, asset managers, investment firms, trading venues and technology providers serving financial institutions. The exact work varies with the firm’s instruments, execution model, client services and reporting responsibilities.
A useful MiFID II brief names the jurisdictions, instruments, business processes, systems and reporting obligations involved. It should also state the expected deliverables, such as a gap assessment, reporting design, data investigation, testing plan, control framework or implementation support.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used MiFID II in their recent projects is 110 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 884 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used MiFID II in their recent projects, 94% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 55% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used MiFID II in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used MiFID II in their recent projects are English (100%), German (97%), and French (14%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used MiFID II in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (100%), Information Technology (68%), and Transportation (32%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used MiFID II in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (89%), and Quality Assurance (76%).
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