SAP HANA Experts in Zurich
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Zurich, who have recently used SAP HANA
Falk S.
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 P.
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 S.
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 N.
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 B.
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 Z.
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 L.
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 L.
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 E.
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 T.
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 M.
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 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Explore rate insightsAverage 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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP HANA 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 (91%)
- Information Technology (82%)
- Professional Services (73%)
- Government and Administration (64%)
- Education (45%)
- Insurance (45%)
- Transportation (45%)
- Manufacturing (45%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What SAP HANA does
SAP HANA is an in-memory database and data platform for processing transactional and analytical workloads in real time. Companies use it to run SAP S/4HANA, centralize operational data, power reporting and support applications that need fast access to changing information.
Core capabilities
SAP HANA combines columnar storage, in-memory processing and advanced data modeling. Specialists work with SQL, SQLScript, calculation views, data replication and workload management to turn business data into reliable, usable services. They also handle security, performance tuning and lifecycle operations.
SAP ecosystem
The platform connects closely with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere. Relevant tools include SAP HANA cockpit, SAP HANA Studio, SAP Business Application Studio, Eclipse-based development environments and SAP Cloud Connector. Integration may also involve APIs, OData, ABAP and enterprise data pipelines.
Typical project work
- Design HANA data models and calculation views
- Migrate workloads from legacy databases to SAP HANA
- Tune queries, memory use and data-load processes
- Connect SAP HANA with analytics and external applications
- Set up replication, backup, high availability and disaster recovery
When companies hire specialists
Freelance expertise helps when an SAP transformation needs focused capacity, when reporting is too slow or when a migration must be planned without disrupting operations. Companies in Zurich may also seek specialists who can collaborate remotely with international SAP teams or work on site during workshops, cutovers and production support.
What strong experts deliver
Strong SAP HANA professionals link database decisions to business processes. They clarify requirements, document the data model, test performance under realistic workloads and make security and operations part of the design. Look for experience with the relevant SAP release, clear troubleshooting methods and deliverables such as migration plans, optimized models, runbooks and tested integrations.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SAP HANA? These answers cover the essentials.
SAP HANA is used for high-speed transaction processing, real-time analytics, data warehousing and applications built around SAP business data. It commonly supports SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, reporting environments and integrations with external systems.
SAP HANA is designed around in-memory and columnar processing, which can reduce the work needed for analytical queries and operational reporting. The right choice depends on workload, SAP integration needs, data volume, governance and the existing database landscape.
SAP HANA work often benefits from knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, ABAP, SQLScript, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere. Data replication, cloud infrastructure, identity management, backup planning and performance analysis are also valuable.
A strong SAP HANA freelancer should have delivered work comparable to the project’s scope, such as modeling, migration, integration, optimization or operational support. Ask for concrete examples of decisions made, production issues resolved and documentation handed over.
SAP HANA projects can often be delivered remotely when access, documentation and communication routines are well defined. On-site sessions may still help with process workshops, security reviews, cutover planning or collaboration with business teams in Zurich.
Review whether SAP HANA deliverables are tested, documented and aligned with business processes rather than judging speed alone. Useful evidence includes clear data models, query plans, monitoring procedures, recovery tests and explanations of security decisions.
SAP HANA is a strong fit when an organization relies heavily on SAP processes and needs transactional and analytical data to work together with low latency. It may be less suitable when requirements are limited to basic reporting or when an existing platform already meets the workload and integration needs.
Before working with SAP HANA, clarify the system edition, deployment model, SAP release, data sources, access rights and production constraints. Also define the expected deliverables, collaboration setup, language requirements and handover responsibilities with the client’s SAP team.
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%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SAP HANA
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