SAP Solution Manager Experts in Germany

Migration of an existing application to a new IT infrastructure.

• Managed all project activities (infrastructure, applications, data, security, architecture)
• Planned complex network architectures with security requirements
• Designed and coordinated firewall configurations
• Planned and managed interfaces between ERP, cloud, and third-party systems
• Coordinated middleware solutions (e.g. SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft, Boomi)
• Defined data flows, mapping rules, and integration architectures
• Managed data migrations and master data harmonization
• Coordinated with business departments, IT teams, service providers, and external partners
• Team size: International team of 35 employees – Germany | Poland | India | USA
• Languages: English

Tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Brainloop, Jira, Confluence, MS SharePoint

• Development controlling systems:
• Validate various Business Cases
• Develop organization, task description, processes and systems of the controlling system to improve activities
• Harmonize ERP software within the Group (IT-Procurement – Plan data – controlling – reports)
• Budget Master data and Planning:
• Set-up phase oriented project planning
• Monitor and validate projects: OPEX and CAPEX due to laws and concern dependency rules
• Validate regulatoric calculations
• PMO assistance activities
• presentations and reports Tools: SAP 4/HANA; SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC): SAP FI/CO; SAP MM; SAP PPM; BOARD; TABLEAU; MS Office 365;

• Supporting the International Web Presence of the BA (IntWeb) project in the area of quality management, with the aim of taking responsibility for the quality of processes and project results while considering BA standards. The main objectives of the project are to give professionals abroad a quick overview of their opportunities for moving to Germany and to enable them to take the necessary steps consistently and with digital support by providing access to services.

• Defining the general guidelines in the QA handbook

• Summarising test results in QA reports for PLA

• Analysing project results for improvement opportunities

• Quality management of requirements analysis (particularly processes, methods, and tools)

• Ensuring compliance with SERA requirements

• Creating a cross-project test concept

• Agreeing on sprint completion reports

• Formal review of work results in accordance with requirements and/or the project plan

• Contact person for internal audit, external audits by auditors, or BRH (Federal Court of Audit)

• Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, GitLab, Kubernetes

Support for Transformation Projects:

• Expert CTO advisory and enterprise architecture consulting for several short-term transformation projects, ensuring measurable improvements in project outcomes and technical business alignment.
• Supporting strategic IT initiatives for diverse clients, driving digital transformation and optimizing technology operations to increase business value and operational efficiency.

• Managed (Scrum / Agile) and monitored IT projects, including project controlling, service provider management, reporting, risk management and coordination of all stakeholders
• Planned and supported the go-live and hypercare phase
• Captured, assessed and prioritized requirements for demand-oriented planning and management of IT resources
• Supported the introduction of the CRIF provider for real-time decision-making in sales, fraud prevention, sanctions list screening and scalable payment processes
• Prepared status reports and decision papers for the executive board
• Planned and managed IT projects for the implementation, optimization or migration of e-commerce systems (e.g. shop systems, payment integration, order to cash)
• Coordinated interdisciplinary teams from development, UX/UI, marketing and logistics to deliver project objectives on time
• Analyzed requirements and prepared technical specifications in close coordination with stakeholders and external service providers
• Ensured the quality, performance and security of e-commerce platforms through testing, monitoring and continuous optimization
• Organized meetings with stakeholders, e.g. Demand Thinking, Warm-Up, Impact Board and program planning
• Managed and prioritized demands as well as DMP controlling and communication of results from the Impact Board and KPI analysis

• Took over management of the SAP S4 Transformation program after 15 months of project execution
• Assessed the quality of soft facts, particularly the quality of collaboration and communication
• Evaluation, program planning, resource management, and realignment of the timeline
• Introduction of the software delivery model and quality gates
• Initial scope definition in the form of business capabilities
• Introduction of enterprise architecture
• Reporting to the SteerCo for the S4 Transformation program / C-level
• Risk management and escalation when identifying project risks
• Coordination of the various projects within the program

• Designed and implemented enhancements in SAP BW on HANA 7.5 in the context of CRM migration and S/4HANA and BW/4HANA transformation programs
• Migrated SAPI data sources to the ODP framework as part of the S/4HANA migration
• Delivered SAP ECC data to Snowflake using BW data models and Calculation Views for Power BI analytics
• Integrated SAP and non-SAP data sources (including MS Dynamics)
• Improved reporting transparency through consolidated data models
• Optimized data loading processes for FI-CO data sources, significantly improving load times and system performance

• Defined S/4HANA finance solution architecture and led full project lifecycle — Blueprint through Hypercare — for global rollout.
• Designed global finance templates and COPA characteristics, harmonizing financial reporting across business units.
• Implemented role-based authorizations, SOD controls, and master data governance; managed provisioning and training for 200+ users.
• Coordinated cross-module integrations (MM, SD, PP) and third-party systems (Salesforce, SAP DRC, E-Invoicing), reducing month-end close from 5 days to 2 days.
• Prepared functional specifications, supported ABAP development, and drove problem management practices that reduced recurring incidents.

• 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

• Developed cloud-native enterprise applications on SAP Business Technology Platform using Node.js, SAP UI5, and RESTful APIs, delivering solutions across training management, procurement, employee information, and logistics domains
• Served as the primary developer for the maintenance, enhancement, and production support of three enterprise applications, delivering new features, resolving production issues, and coordinating releases with business stakeholders
• Experienced in leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as Microsoft Copilot to accelerate feature development, generate code, prototype solutions, and support application migration and modernization
• Designed backend services, domain models, and SAP Fiori/UI5 interfaces, implementing business workflows, role-based access control, validations, scheduling, reporting, and data import/export capabilities
• Designed and integrated enterprise services with SAP SuccessFactors, SailPoint, ERP systems, and external Learning Management APIs, including automated synchronization for 11,000+ user data
• Designed and implemented AMQP-based event-driven services processing up to 500 RFID parcel scan events per day for a logistics application
• Managed deployments and application operations using CI/CD pipelines, SAP Solution Manager, SAP BTP Cockpit, Kibana, and cloud monitoring tools, performing root-cause analysis and resolving production incidents
• Managed application dependencies by resolving npm package version conflicts and remediating critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities, ensuring production compliance and application stability
• Collaborated with architects, business users, SAP governance teams, and distributed Agile teams throughout technical design, code reviews, sprint planning, documentation, and software delivery

• Project Argo: SAP BW/4 Hana Project Lead, Program and Application Manager, SAP BW/4 Hana Consultant, Architect and Developer.
• Migration of FI data models from SAP BW 7.x to BW/4 Hana.
• Review and implementation of the user and authorization concept.
• SAP S/4 Hana, SAP Basis, SAP BW/4 Hana data modeling and use of the SAP BW Migration Workbench.
• Use of Business Content, BAPI, BW/4 Hana, Hana Studio, HANA Views, Analytical Views, virtual tables and Hana Native SQL.
• Work with ADSO, Open ODS Views, Composite Provider, Hybrid Provider, SAP Solution Manager, Query Designer, Analysis for Office, Lumira and Fiori.
• Use of SAP SAC (Stories, Data Models, Data Analyzer, CDS Views), as well as application management and monitoring of process chains and load jobs.

• Challenging consulting services as well as interim, transformation, program and project management
• Program Manager for dormakaba International Holding AG: responsible for the SAP rollout in the German subsidiary consisting of 16 projects for Sales, Service, Operation and Finance, preparation through a fit template pre-project, development and formulation of end-to-end business processes, guidance and coaching of the business in use case and technical concept creation, introduction of integration test concept and implementation of integration tests
• Senior consultant for AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG: specification of ITSM processes Incident and Release Management based on ITIL, examination of implementation options with SAP Solution Manager, managing the cutover of an SAP project
• Interim manager for bofrost DL GmbH & Co. KG: analysis and redesign of the existing business process model, management of strategic PMO including control of project portfolio management (up to 40 projects), project initiation process management, coaching of project managers, comprehensive reporting, ensuring economic viability of all projects, direct reporting to the advisory board, guidance for process and ITSM areas, management of strategic program including greenfield approach, system landscape redesign, end-to-end process introduction, CRM POC and platform provider beauty contest, development of target specifications using LEAN A3, design and implementation of POC with two platform providers
• Program Manager/PMO/PPM for Henkel KGaA global SCM consolidation: management of international template team for SAP landscape redesign, management of strategic partner Accenture
• Program Manager/PMO/PPM for Henkel KGaA migration from SAP BW to Microsoft BI: complete development lifecycle, transition of services to Accenture and hosting from HP to IBM, implementation according to PMI-based and agile standards, management of 20 projects, turnaround program setup, root cause analysis, contract amendments, governance, reporting, controlling, coaching of up to 60 employees, 20 MEUR budget, all milestones achieved on time and within budget
• Program Manager/PMO M&A IT for Henkel KGaA: SAP rollout and infrastructure transition worldwide after acquisition, carve-out management, onboarding of approx. 5 000 new SAP users, consolidation of servers and data centres, management of 30 projects across WEU, CEE, LA, NA and AP, PMI-based implementation, governance setup, coaching of up to 150 employees, 85 MEUR budget, 300 people worldwide, international tender management with providers such as Accenture, IBM, HP and Cisco, program completed on time, on quality and below budget
• Interim Manager for Bertelsmann AG: strategic IT sourcing program for Corporate CIO including six projects, planning, controlling, reporting, coaching, quality management, stakeholder management, contract transitions, development of system to verify savings, achieved 20% above planned savings
• Interim Manager IT Governance for Henkel KGaA: professionalisation of IT service management, audit and development of PMI-based project management process with group adaptations, group-wide rollout of ITIL processes incident, problem and change management
• Agile project for ALDI-Sued: finalisation and implementation of demand management process for IT requirements with interfaces to other processes and service catalogue
• Senior Consultant for hagebau IT GmbH: analysis of business processes, conception and implementation of NDA, RFI and RFP for Managed IT Services tender with EUR 30 million volume, transition planning of two data centres to Atos managed services, development of service catalogue and cost allocation model
• Interim Manager for Henkel KGaA: development of international resource management system for global IT to improve cost and capacity control, agile planning, controlling and scope management, realization of 25% capacity reserves
• Interim Manager for Netrada GmbH: professionalisation of IT service management, conception and creation of 16 SLAs, process analysis and documentation, service quality objectivisation reducing ad hoc workload by approx. 20%
• Senior Consultant for Saudi Telecom: introduction of PMI-based project management process, development of PMO, coaching of employees, support in acquisition of customer projects by applying the introduced method

• Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
• Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
• Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
• Removing impediments
• Increasing sprint performance

• Structured analysis and evaluation of business processes

• Gathering, documenting, and prioritizing requirements

• Creating business-friendly and technically executable process models

• Use of Camunda tools

• Deriving requirements and interfaces from BPMN diagrams

• Coordination with stakeholders and business units

• Translating business requirements into technical solution designs

• Implementing efficient and tailored applications

• Systematic collection, analysis, and documentation of requirements

• Prioritizing and validating requirements in close collaboration with stakeholders

• Alignment between business and development to ensure shared objectives

• Creating use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria

• Continuous requirements and change management throughout the project lifecycle

• Define project goals and create project plans

• Delegate tasks and monitor project progress

• Monitor budgets and inform stakeholders

• Mendix: Architecture, development, and maintenance of custom applications (Microflows, Domain Model, Security, XPath)

• Modeling Mendix workflows for process optimization

• Develop scalable apps with Mendix including REST/SOAP integration with SAP, SQL, Azure & SharePoint

• UI design for Mendix using Atlas UI, Fluent UI, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Develop web & mobile apps with Mendix using agile methods (Scrum, Kanban)

• Implement business logic with Mendix Microflows and Nanoflows

• Performance optimization and architecture improvements for Mendix applications

• Conduct Mendix training

• Create technical documentation and best practices for Mendix

• Coaching and mentoring for low-code development with Mendix