OZG Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used OZG
Holger G.
Last position:
IAM Business Analyst + Requirements Engineer at Rewe Group
Business analysis / requirements engineering for the introduction of a central authorization platform:
- Analysis of existing requirements for the use of IGA solutions (NetIQ, MidPoint) in an existing IAM cluster
- Capturing requirements as epics and user stories (JIRA) to provide a comprehensive description of the use of an IGA solution for central access control across connected platforms and applications.
- Functional solution descriptions (Confluence) for various lifecycle processes, such as Identity Lifecycle (ILC), Role Lifecycle (RLC), Structure Lifecycle (SLC), and Application Lifecycle
- RBAC: Design of a role model in the IGA solution to automate access provisioning as much as possible, capturing application and business roles
- Approach for onboarding applications to the IGA tool, integrating Keycloak (ID Provider).
- Functions and processes for recertifying entitlement objects and roles, and for assigning / removing them from personalized identities.
- Functions and processes for audit-proof documentation and reporting of managed data and processes in the IGA / IAM environment.
- Planning, execution, and documentation of QA / testing for the 1st implementation phase of the MidPoint IGA solution in the IAM cluster.
- Planning a roadmap for the step-by-step testing and introduction of the IGA solution.
Wolfgang T.
Last position:
Overall Project Manager at itzbund
Project overview: The use of “Generative Pretrained Transformer” (GPT) technologies will greatly change the world of work in the coming years. ITZBund is developing a basic service for this purpose, which can be used by its 200 customers. This basic service is offered both on-premises and in the cloud. Launched in 12/23, production systems (based on the MVP) had already been successfully rolled out and operated for several authorities and federal ministries by 05/24.
Project metrics:
- 2024 budget approx. 20 Mio €
- approx. 70 people directly involved in the project
- regular (indirect) contact with approx. 80 people in the wider project environment
My main responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility as external project manager
- Project definition phase/ Project setup and establishment of the project organization
- Strategic and operational project planning, as well as project design and ongoing adjustments
- Ongoing coordination with the project owner and stakeholders at ITZBund
- Ongoing coordination with sub-project managers, agile roles, and other project team members
- Responsibility for project controlling, quality management, risk management, and change management
- Responsibility for providing the basic service in on-premises and cloud environments and its ongoing development
- Planning and leading several hypercare phases
- Collaboration and ongoing coordination with a federal ministry partner project and delivery of an MVP
- Coordination with the agile teams
- Coordination with operations, release, and deployment
- Responsibility for delivering initial customer projects
- Responsibility for developing AI governance
- Ensuring accessibility (BITV)
- Responsibility for setting up a sub-project for marketing activities
- Support in setting up an efficient proposal process
- Stakeholder management
Approach:
- V-Modell XT ITZBund
- Scrum
Tools used:
- Microsoft Office, Skype, MS Project, Confluence, Jira, Sharepoint, Miro
Michael D.
Last position:
SuccessFactors Project Manager at Sysmex Europe SE
SAP HANA - SuccessFactors deployment
- Implementation of sub-modules Recruiting + EC Benefits + TeamGoals
- Global rollout with adaptation to country-specific legal requirements, including standardization
- International stakeholder management
- Onboarding of the new group companies in Kenya and Greece regarding SAP SuccessFactors
Manfred P.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager EfA / OZG Online Services at Senatskanzlei ITD Hamburg, Dataport, Police Hamburg
The online service "Special Use of Streets and No-Parking Zone" was in a partially completed state. The following tasks had to be carried out to reach final completion:
- Preparation of an expert report on the status of the online service, and recommendations for action
- Ensuring that all LEIKAS to be used are available (service catalog / service descriptions of the authorities)
- Creating and aligning concepts for complex IT projects (business/IT concepts, architecture, interfaces, roadmaps)
- Requirements management
- Multi-project management with 3 stakeholders (Police, Dataport, development company)
- Determining resource needs
- Coordination to identify technical requirements through the IT architects
- Creating use cases and test cases
- Creating action items
- Managing external IT service providers
- Coordination and management of all activities
- Conflict resolution / business mediation
- User Acceptance Test (UAT) and acceptance by Hamburg Police (Traffic Directorate, Policy Department, Central Road Traffic Authority)
Technical environment: .NET, EfA minimum requirements, Leikas, Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG), HWG (Hamburg Roads Act), Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office
Olcay C.
Last position:
OWI specialist process modernization at Junikom
Public sector, regulated environment with legal deadlines and interfaces to justice, finance offices, and authorities. Took over a software product, condition unknown. The handover reported 89 percent completion.
Description / Results:
Review of the current state showed only two months of remaining runtime until year-end. Stabilized the product base in four weeks, including setup. Process logic proven instead of estimated: 181 workflows with 28 steps each verified against the legacy system.
Manuel S.
Last position:
Project Manager at Univention
Industry: digital sovereignty, public sector
Responsibilities:
- Project coordination (teams: consulting, development, testing, deployment/operations)
Products and standards:
- Jira, Confluence, Asana, Miro, Mural
- Open Source, Keycloak, Open Xchange, ownCloud
Rainer L.
Last position:
Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer at Techniker Krankenkasse
Automation of the database major / minor releases for the TKeasy project
Concept for database major / minor release automation
Assessment of the current state
Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionalities
Concept development
Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeller, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence
Knowledge: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases
Thomas M.
Last position:
Interoperability Team Leader
Coordination of the product manufacturers and service providers involved in implementing the federal standards that allow application processes developed in one federal state to be reused in all other states
Interoperability Team Leader OZG EfA-Prinzip (Einer für alle)
Jan M.
Last position:
Coaching, Workshops, Training at Jan Menzel | Coach & Berater
- No project assignments accepted during this period
- Conducting coaching sessions, workshops, training sessions and moderation assignments
Mohammed A.
Last position:
Management Consultant / Program Lead at Adesso SE
- Led hybrid projects (agile and classic) to deliver administration-specific software (application processes) for use across state and federal state boundaries
- Developed tailored specialist and funding processes in the areas of energy saving, business support, and export control for internal case processing use
- Helped shape internal projects such as secure connection to the document management system and integration of authentication components in the context of the Online Access Act
- Analyzed the connection of internal specialist applications to the ERiC client for transmitting payment runs to tax offices
- Built and led the Project Management Office (PMO), moderated weekly management meetings
- Program leadership and operational project leadership, coordination with departments and stakeholders
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive project governance structure, including change and communication concepts
- Performed risk analyses and derived countermeasures
- Built standardized reporting and efficient resource management
- Developed forecasting models for effort estimation, budget, and resource control
- Built and optimized PMO functions to manage multiple programs
- Advised on innovation and modernization measures
- Used IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Keycloak, Docker, Maven, Jenkins, SVN
Meik V.
Last position:
CEO / Managing Consultant at MONTUVA GmbH, Germany
Florian R.
Last position:
Managing RfP (tender) HR Transformation Program, Program Management Team at Schaeffler AG
- Preparing tender documents
- Managing various specialist departments and suppliers
- Successfully conducting the tender
- Preparing decision documents for multi-stage decision-making committees
- Providing advisory support to the Program Management Team
- Program controlling
Daniel R.
Last position:
Software Engineer at DB InfraGO AG
- Development of dynamic web components for displaying KPIs, intelligent map applications, and operational process analysis tools
- Angular 18+
- Leaflet, MapLibre
- NestJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- PostgreSQL, GraphQL, RabbitMQ
- Gitea, Jenkins, Docker
David B.
Last position:
Acting Partner at Bliestal Consulting UG
- Redesigning cablewise infrastructure with CAT 8.1 keystones, measuring the speed and quality of the new installation with Pockethernet, documentation at a local saddlery
- CAT 8.1 installation and building a data center, site linking, VPN and VLAN configuration for a local car dealership, implementation of IT-Security standards like virus protection (G Data) and firewalling (OPNSense)
- Relocation of a tax office with redesign of the IT infrastructure, virus protection (G Data) and backup solutions (QNAP)
- Planning, conception and implementation of an inhouse data center, BSI-compliant for commercial laundry (including Proxmox-based virtualization of existing infrastructures, QNAP, G Data, OPNSense, APC)
- Implementation and conception of security solutions in the SME sector
- Collaboration on the IT-security concept for the Bremen network of authorities (in the dLAN network)
- Creation of IT-security concept VOIS (modules MESO, KFZ/iKFZ) including audit preparation for KBA
- Expansion of the IT-security concept for the online service for electronic residence registration (eWA) to include use as an eFA (one-for-all) service (nationwide)
- Expansion of the IT-security concept to include modules wos & wvp
- Concept development for the implementation of DIN SPEC 27076 at MSEs and SMEs
- Creation and evaluation of emergency concepts
- Creation and evaluation of response actions and BCM plans
- Assessment of existing business continuity management (ISO 22301)
- Development of BCM strategy options
- Conducting awareness training
Ronald T.
Last position:
Product Owner at Dataport AöR
- Setting up and growing the business unit
- Stakeholder management
- Conducting and facilitating workshops to gather requirements
- Requirements analysis and solution design
- Backlog management
- Project planning and management
- Resource planning
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Statistics of experts using OZG
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Government and Administration, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
69%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
91%
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 OZG
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.
OZG experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Government and Administration (94%)
- Information Technology (91%)
- Professional Services (53%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Banking and Finance (47%)
- Manufacturing (44%)
- Telecommunication (38%)
- Education (35%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What OZG covers
The Onlinezugangsgesetz, commonly known as OZG, is Germany’s legal and organisational framework for providing public services digitally. It focuses on making administrative services accessible online through secure, user-friendly procedures. OZG projects connect citizens, businesses and public authorities across federal, state and local administration.
Services and portals
OZG specialists help turn administrative processes into complete digital services rather than simple online forms. Their work can cover applications for permits, benefits, registrations, certificates and business services. They map user journeys, define service requirements and deliver accessible interfaces that work across devices.
- Digital application and notification workflows
- Citizen and business portals
- Online forms with identity verification
- Status tracking and secure document exchange
Architecture and integration
OZG delivery depends on reliable connections between front ends, specialist procedures and existing public-sector systems. Professionals work with service accounts, identity solutions, interfaces, registries and secure data exchange. They may also assess standards such as XÖV, transport mechanisms and interoperability requirements relevant to German administration.
Tools and adjacent skills
The ecosystem can include portal solutions, form services, API management, cloud or sovereign hosting, authentication and document management. Strong specialists understand requirements engineering, accessibility, information security, data protection and public procurement contexts. They can translate legal and administrative rules into maintainable technical processes.
- Requirements analysis with public authorities
- API and system integration
- Accessibility and usability reviews
- Security, privacy and test planning
When freelance expertise helps
Companies often bring in OZG specialists when a service portfolio must be digitised, an existing portal needs modernisation or an integration is blocked by legacy systems. Freelance support is useful for discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, rollout and documentation. In Germany, collaboration may involve federal, state or municipal stakeholders, so clear communication and structured governance matter.
What strong specialists deliver
A strong OZG professional connects policy, service design and technology without losing sight of the people using the service. They define measurable acceptance criteria, document interfaces and test complete journeys across authorities and systems. They also identify gaps early, explain trade-offs clearly and leave behind reusable patterns, reliable documentation and an orderly handover.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about OZG — answered in short.
OZG is used to make public administration services available through secure digital channels in Germany. Projects can cover online applications, identity verification, document exchange, notifications and connections to existing authority systems.
The Onlinezugangsgesetz concerns complete digital service processes, not only publishing information online. A compliant service typically covers user guidance, data capture, authentication, submission, processing and communication with the responsible authority.
An OZG specialist should usually understand service design, accessibility, data protection, information security and API integration. Knowledge of XÖV standards, identity services, electronic signatures and public-sector delivery processes can be especially valuable.
The Onlinezugangsgesetz does not require every project to use the same profile. A discovery phase may need service design and requirements expertise, while a complex rollout may call for integration, security, testing and stakeholder management across several authorities.
OZG work can often be handled remotely through structured workshops, documentation and secure collaboration tools. On-site sessions may still help with stakeholder alignment, access-controlled environments or workshops involving local and regional authorities in Germany.
The Onlinezugangsgesetz is relevant across public administration and the companies supporting it. Specialists may work with federal, state and municipal bodies, public institutions, regulated service providers and technology teams delivering citizen or business services in Germany.
Look for evidence of complete digital services rather than isolated form or portal work. A strong OZG professional can explain user journeys, system boundaries, accessibility decisions, security controls, test results and how the service was handed over to its operating organisation.
OZG is a German public-administration framework, so it is often considered alongside broader e-government programmes, internal digitalisation initiatives and portal modernisation. The right specialist should clarify whether the assignment concerns legal compliance, service usability, technical integration or all of these together.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used OZG in their recent projects is 108 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 862 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used OZG in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 69% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used OZG in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used OZG in their recent projects are German (100%), English (88%), and French (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used OZG in their recent projects are Government and Administration (94%), Information Technology (91%), and Professional Services (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used OZG in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Project Management (94%), and Product Development (74%).
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