SAP HANA Experts in Zurich
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Falk Schlüsener
Last position:
Freelancer at SOL4ERP SAP Consulting Schlüsener
Self-employed Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
- Support services for SAP transformations
- Support services for SAP FI projects (based on ECC and S/4)
Vitaly Podkopaev
Last position:
IT Project Manager UCC at Office for Informatics, Canton of Zurich
- Collaboration with and deputizing for the service manager for UCC (product owner)
- Interface management for UCC with other functionalities as part of the digital workplace
- Control of infrastructure tests and rollout, monitoring dependencies with other sub-projects
Philipp Siegenthaler
Last position:
Equity Portfolio Manager - Digital Wealth Management at Interactive Brokers LLC
- Solely responsible for two portfolios totaling USD 1 million with an average monthly performance of 2%
- Responsible for the investment strategy, specializing in US equities and ETFs (exchanges: NASDAQ and NYSE)
- Market, trend, data, and technical chart analysis
- Risk management – diversification, daily/weekly risk mitigation measures (rebalancing) to ensure optimal portfolio profitability
Patrick Niederhauser
Last position:
SAP Real Estate Expert at RKW SE
- Compliance with IFRS 16 for all group companies
- Achieve efficiency gains through a centralized and standardized process and save time thanks to a single source of information
- Automatic calculation and posting of IFRS 16 and other relevant journals
- Simulations / planning of positions regarding rent/leasing (vehicles, equipment, real estate, etc.)
- Coordination of service fees, benchmarking, scheduling, etc.
David Barreto Schmidt
Last position:
External Project Manager in the Supply Chain Network at DEUTZ AG
- Project management (SAP BN (Ariba) onboarding, support for SAP ECC and SAP TM for supplier topics)
- Standardization of global value creation processes
- Basic training as well as central contact person for suppliers and support for planners
Beat Zangger
Last position:
SAP Test Manager at E.ON Grid Solutions GmbH
- Responsible for IT integration test and user acceptance test for SAP S/4 Hana and BDO BO Customer Financials Management
- Led the test team (business testers and IT testers)
- Resource planning and control within the test team
- Created test concepts and test plans
- Performed test risk analysis
- Coordinated test execution and defect tracking
- Ensured test progress
- Generated and visualized reports
- Summarized test reports and reported to management
- Prepared and conducted user acceptance tests
- Managed SIGMA and JIRA/Confluence at project level
Andrew Longe
Last position:
Service Manager - Testing at Takeda Pharmaceutical International AG
- Managing the Testing services for the Global IT Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) team, which is responsible for managing and supporting the Product & Project Testing Workstreams on various Regional Projects, especially in Pharmacovigilance, Digital Supply Chain, Clinical Practice and R&D, etc.
- Managing Client relationships, escalations and continuing to grow the project services globally, while also driving the testing efforts on Takeda’s AI, DevOps, Agile, and Digital projects.
- Led the implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with GCP, GMP, and Swiss and EU regulations, resulting in a huge improvement in audit readiness.
- Overseeing projects for systems including ERP, EDGE, SAP ECC, SAP Transportation Management, S/4 HANA migration etc.
- Led an AI/ML PoC for AI implementation.
- Led a cross-functional team to ensure compliance with MDR, FDA regulatory guidelines and achieved successful project deliveries.
- Led and managed change management and communication for TCoE, keeping the Takeda organisation informed of change communication and practices, including presentations to various stakeholders.
- Ensuring TCoE outsource vendor resources adhere to regulatory, compliance and quality system standards and practices for GxP & non-GxP System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including aSDLC and TCoE Global Standards.
- Translated the product vision, strategy and requirements into backlog items, which were prioritised based on potential business impact and customer value.
Ala Lutz
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
Karl Estermann
Last position:
incl. CI/CD, automation at AALS Software AG
- Designed and delivered a practical real-time course on Flink and Hadoop with MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Flink, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Gained extensive DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Created ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache tools and Pentaho
- Led projects in municipal software, financial services, and big data with Kafka
- Developed AI/NLP models and chatbots with RASA, Chatter, and Dialogflow
- Built and managed a TypeDB knowledge database
- Worked with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Podman
Nenad Tomasic
Last position:
Contractor at Swisscom
- SAP Data Designer ETL, SQL Server, Docker for PharmaSuisse Data Warehouse Application (Application Manager and Developer)
- SAP Business Objects, ABAP on SAP HANA for the Police of the Canton of Bern (Application Manager and Developer)
- Avaloq Connectors to SAP BW for Banque Cantonale de Fribourg
Sven Mader
Last position:
SAP BW development and consulting, ongoing support, international industrial company at Rafi Berg
- Extension of the planning application for annual and rolling planning
- Improvements for navigation and filtering with master data
- Administration of the planning InfoProvider: selective deletion of unneeded data, generation of zero records
- Fixing issues from the open items list
- Technologies: SAP BW, SAP BW-IP, SAP SD
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Statistics of experts using SAP HANA
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
27 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
19
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
60%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Zurich using SAP HANA
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 it is
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform and database used for fast analytics and transactional processing. It sits at the center of many SAP landscapes, from S/4HANA to BW/4HANA and custom applications that need low-latency data access.
Common work
- HANA data modeling for reporting and planning
- SQLScript and calculation views for business logic
- SAP S/4HANA migration and remediation tasks
- Performance tuning for queries, tables, and models
- Support for data replication and integration flows
Tooling and stack
Strong SAP HANA professionals work across the HANA cockpit, SAP HANA Studio where it is still present, SQL, HDI containers, and transport workflows. They also understand how HANA connects with ABAP, BW, SAP Datasphere, and integration tools used around the SAP stack.
When to bring in specialists
Companies usually hire freelance SAP HANA experts when a migration is blocked, a model is too slow, or a reporting layer needs redesign. In Zurich, this often matters for firms running finance, insurance, life sciences, and industrial SAP systems that need careful change windows and clean handover.
What good experts do
- Read existing models and find the real bottleneck
- Keep logic close to the data without overcomplicating it
- Protect security, naming, and transport discipline
- Document decisions so internal teams can maintain the setup
Signs you need help
If HANA objects are hard to change, queries keep slowing down, or a migration needs a safe path from older SAP data layers, the right expert can help. The best professionals balance database depth with SAP process knowledge, so the result works for operations, reporting, and future change.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SAP HANA? These answers cover the essentials.
SAP HANA is used for fast transactional processing, analytics, and SAP data modeling. Companies rely on it for reporting layers, planning scenarios, operational dashboards, and core SAP applications that need direct access to current data.
SAP HANA is built around in-memory processing and tight integration with SAP applications. Compared with a general-purpose relational database, it is usually chosen when the design must support both transactions and analytics with very low latency.
A company usually brings in a SAP HANA specialist for migration work, performance problems, or redesign of calculation views and SQLScript logic. It also helps when internal teams know the business process but need deeper platform knowledge for a specific phase.
A strong SAP HANA professional often also knows SQLScript, data modeling, ABAP basics, transport handling, and SAP S/4HANA integration points. Depending on the project, experience with BW/4HANA, HDI containers, and data replication tools can also matter.
The answer depends on the scope, but SAP HANA work is rarely a pure entry-level task. Migration, performance tuning, and model redesign usually need someone who has already handled similar system landscapes and can make safe design choices.
Many SAP HANA tasks can be done remotely, especially modeling, SQLScript, documentation, and troubleshooting. On-site time can help during go-live windows, security reviews, or workshops with business users and SAP basis teams in Zurich.
Look for clear explanations, not just technical terms. A good SAP HANA expert can show how a model was structured, why a query is slow, what changed, and how the solution will be maintained after handover.
A SAP HANA freelancer should understand the target system, the surrounding SAP landscape, and the release or transport process. It also helps to know whether the client expects work in English, German, or both, especially in Zurich projects.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects is 113 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 903 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects, 60% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects have 27 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (55%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (91%), Information Technology (82%), and Professional Services (73%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SAP HANA in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (91%), and Operations (73%).
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