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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
Markus O.
Last position:
Lead E-Solution Architect & Senior Requirements Engineer at Zasterbot-Oracle
- Clarification of project objectives, scope and the target business vision for building the AI-based knowledge database.
- Derivation of the initial architecture and implementation strategy for the Zasterbot chatbot, including separation of the MVP and further development stages.
- Development of a target business vision for building a structured knowledge database and integrating a future chatbot.
- Derivation and prioritization of use cases for information retrieval and provision by the chatbot.
- Modeling of data structures and flows for the effective organization of the knowledge database on the Base44 platform.
- Design and implementation of data models for storing and linking relevant information.
- Development of processes for extracting, analyzing and preparing raw data for the knowledge database.
- Ensuring data consistency and quality as the basis for the future chatbot.
- Planning the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for precise and context-specific answers.
- Implementation of functions for analyzing and displaying data from the knowledge database.
- Use of the Base44 platform with JSON Schema-based entities and a flexible permission concept.
- Implementation of Deno functions for backend logic, event processing and connecting external APIs.
- Integration of OpenAI services for initial data analysis.
Marcus B.
Last position:
Java and Quarkus Expert at Large German energy service provider
- Modernization of a large-scale Java enterprise application*
The project is modernizing a complex enterprise application that has grown over many years. The existing Spring-based legacy system runs on Java 8, OSGi, and Eclipse RCP and is being gradually migrated to a modern, maintainable architecture with Java 25 and Quarkus.
Marcus works on analysis, architecture, refactoring, and implementation. One focus is on untangling historically grown structures and dependencies and on building a clean, sustainable Java and Quarkus technology stack.
Tools & technologies: Java 8, Java 25, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM with Panache, EclipseLink, OSGi, Eclipse RCP, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, REST, JSON, Git, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Jira, Confluence
Tamás E.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead at NDA (defense / OSINT)
- Designing the audit logging framework
- Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
- Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
- Improving stability and reliability of the backend system
Ivan A.
Last position:
Module Lead ML KH (Project Manager / Test Manager) at BMW AG
- Overall responsibility for the quality of module KH
- Technical leadership and coordination of a module lead team
- Analysis of design models and alignment of technical requirements
- Preparation of risk analyses and presentations, and presenting them to decision-makers
- Test management, development, coordination and approval of current test cases and their prioritization for test events
- Test planning for different test phases
- Coordination of test phases with other departments to ensure relevant aspects of business operations
- Prioritization of handling existing bugs/tickets
- Tracking and validation of the quality of problem management
- Consistency checks, planning, prioritization and sorting of tickets
- Preparation and coordination of required test data
- Tracking ALM (QC) processes and their implementation at module level
- Collaboration with interface partners for bug fixes
- Ensuring effective communication within the team and with interface partners
- Coordination of tasks when processing tickets in ML KH
- Tracking, assignment and clarification of bug-fix scheduling
- Close collaboration and management of suppliers (at module level), the development department, and external partners
- Planning, development, execution and evaluation of functional tests
- Conducting functional end-to-end tests
- Weekly reports on current test and defect status to management committees
- Planning and executing performance and load tests to ensure that SOA applications meet expected performance and scalability requirements
- Developing test strategies and test plans for SOA-based applications
- Defining test objectives and criteria to ensure services meet requirements
- Integration of test automation
Harald L.
Last position:
Project Management at Loocid LLC
- Conducted a comprehensive due diligence review for a potential acquisition of a Swiss manufacturing company as part of a pre-merger analysis
- Assessed production capacities and technical infrastructure
- Evaluated integration possibilities into existing business processes
- Performed risk assessment and developed recommendations for action
- Documented the findings and presented them to management
Celso K.
Last position:
SAP Commerce Cloud FullStack Developer at Spar
- Implementation of a GitLab CI/CD pipeline based on SAP Commerce Cloud 2211
- Development of a new B2C shop with Vue, Node and TypeScript to ensure scalability, extensibility and performance optimization
- Integration of Microsoft Azure Event Grid with SAP Hybris
- Implementation of BDD with Cucumber using Gherkin syntax to promote collaboration between development and business teams
- Support and customization of a Spartacus shop
- Technologies/Languages: Java, REST, OData, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber, Node, Vue, TypeScript, Spartacus, GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Maven, Ant, SonarQube
Vitor R.
Last position:
Test Coordinator Automation at Pro4all
- Designed and built from scratch the automation framework using Playwright, Typescript, JavaScript, Gherkin, Cucumber, BDD, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA
- Defined, developed and maintained test plans, test scripts, reports and other QA documentation in Confluence
- Created and maintained test data with SQL Server Management Studio, Toad and Faker.js
- Performed web services and API testing using Swagger Open API, SoapUI, JSON, HTML and XML
- Executed functional, smoke, regression, black box, GUI, cross-browser, UAT and E2E testing using CrossBrowserTesting and Safari Web Inspector
- Integrated and maintained automated scripts within sprints following Kanban, CI/CD, GitHub, Docker, Azure Pipelines, Agile, Scrum, Kafka and Kibana
- Raised and managed defects in Azure DevOps
- Conducted mobile testing with Robot Framework and Appium
Sascha J.
Last position:
Agile Coach & Partner at Agisolve GmbH – Pragmatic Agility® | Edler & Stiegler GmbH | CTN Consulting
- Create a product and service portfolio delivering a 360 degree approach to digital corporate sustainability covering KPI management, CSRD reporting and sustainable strategy
- Create vision and business case
- Onboard and align business partners, negotiate contracts
- Set up partner network as self-organized agile team
- Co-develop product and service portfolio
- Coordinate sales and marketing, go-to-market strategy and roadmap
Rahul J.
Last position:
Hybris Consultant at Bosch Digital
- Implement Hybris Commerce projects for customer.
- Provide technical implementation of Developer and Integrator portal using Hybris solution.
- Integration with Billing and Payment systems.
- Technical ownership of the solution.
- Introduce best practices in Hybris solution and Java technologies.
- Provide release support on AWS environments.
- Technical focal point for sales and engineering teams.
- Supporting engineering team to scope the requirements and in architecting & designing the solutions.
- Proliferate best practices from one project to others, Knowledge management.
Christian K.
Last position:
CEO, Founder & Managing Partner at Ideas Enabled
- Served as Chief Digital Officer a.i. at a leading European travel industry player (2021-2023)
- Steered the Digital B2C unit with 100+ employees in the challenging phase of a large scale strategic transformation and re-organization in the travel industry
- Defined the strategic design of the overall Digital B2C platform and increased the direct online sales share by 2x post-covid
- Re-organized the unit around 5 pillars: CoC Business Analytics & Rules, Digital Marketing Outreach & CRM, Digital Toolkit & Platform, E-2-E Digital Experience, Content Production & Mining
- Conducted an as-is assessment (SEA & social media, SEO, UX/CX, content) including benchmarking and best practice review cross-industry
- Designed an overarching business case for three strategic scenarios to pave the most efficient way towards the ambitious mid-term goal of 30% direct online sales share
- Led key strategic initiatives dedicated to B2C brand strategy & architecture, digital B2C strategy & disintermediation, and B2B2C strategy & commissioning model re-design
- Led 100-day plan investigation initiatives around group sales commissioning and overall marketing spend effectiveness leveraging the marketing excellence framework
- Investigated and implemented AI/ML in recommendations and CR optimization
- Ran European Lean Startup Workshops as executive & employee coach for an international pharma company
Claudius P.
Last position:
IT Consultant on Temporary Assignment at YER Talents GmbH
- Release Management
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Scrum
- SAFe
Jörg S.
Last position:
Interim Release Management, Test Coordination at Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
- Cross-project test coordination and management for minor and major releases in a complex, integrated test environment
- Coordination of test batch executions
- Conducting project and release status meetings, collecting and communicating project status, and approving releases
Marius H.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager / SAFe Solution & Release Train Engineer (Lead Scrum Master) at Telefonica O2
- Led the largest agile project at Telefonica O2 (€21+ million, 11 Scrum & system teams in Germany and India, 80+ developers, 3 vendors) using SAFe, Scrum and Kanban. A showcase project at Telefonica for agile scaling.
- Scaled agile processes to a large project using SAFe.
- Delivered the project at half the cost and time compared to similar projects.
- Test management / coordination of system testing.
- Coached teams (SAFe & Scrum).
- Rollout planning/management.
Konstantinos M.
Last position:
IT System Engineer at Client belongs to critical infrastructure
- IT infrastructure services
- IT services, networks, Exchange, Office 365 & 2016
- IT documentation
- Collaboration with external partner & managed provider
- Stakeholder management
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Statistics of experts using Service-Oriented Architecture
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years (Germany: 23 years)
Position duration
1.8 years (Germany: 2.4 years)
Positions per freelancer
14 (Germany: 16)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
92% (Germany: 96%)
Master's degree or higher
62% (Germany: 57%)
Doctorate
8% (Germany: 5%)
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 94%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Munich using Service-Oriented Architecture
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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.
Service-Oriented Architecture experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Banking and Finance (69%)
- Retail (56%)
- Automotive (50%)
- Professional Services (44%)
- Telecommunication (38%)
- Healthcare (31%)
- Insurance (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What SOA Means
Service-Oriented Architecture, commonly called SOA, structures business capabilities as separate services that communicate through defined contracts. Each service can own a clear function, data boundary and lifecycle while remaining usable by several applications. This reduces direct dependencies between systems and supports gradual change across complex IT landscapes.
Where It Fits
SOA is used for enterprise integration, customer portals, order processing, finance workflows and shared data services. It is especially useful when new applications must work with established systems rather than replace them outright.
- Connect ERP, CRM and supply-chain systems
- Expose reusable business capabilities
- Coordinate multi-step enterprise processes
- Modernize legacy applications incrementally
Ecosystem and Tools
Strong SOA work can involve SOAP, WSDL, XML, REST, JSON and enterprise service buses. Depending on the environment, specialists may work with API gateways, message brokers, workflow engines, service registries and identity systems. Java, .NET and cloud integration services often appear alongside these components.
When to Bring in Specialists
Companies usually seek freelance SOA expertise when integration work spans several teams, vendors or generations of software. A specialist can assess existing interfaces, define service contracts, map dependencies and establish an implementation path without disrupting critical operations. In Munich, this can support both on-site collaboration and remote delivery across international enterprise teams.
- Replace fragile point-to-point integrations
- Set governance for shared services
- Plan a phased modernization programme
- Resolve inconsistent interfaces and ownership
What Strong Professionals Deliver
Effective professionals balance business processes with technical boundaries. They document contracts clearly, define versioning and error handling, and select synchronous or asynchronous communication with care. They also address security, observability, resilience, testing and service ownership instead of treating integration as a collection of isolated interfaces.
SOA and Modern Architectures
SOA is not the same as microservices, although both use independently managed services. SOA often serves broader enterprise integration and governance needs, while microservices usually emphasize smaller, independently deployable components. Experienced specialists know when to retain SOA patterns, when to introduce REST or event-driven design, and when a simpler modular application is the better choice.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with Service-Oriented Architecture? These answers cover the essentials.
Service-Oriented Architecture is used to connect business systems through reusable services with explicit interfaces. Companies apply it to enterprise integration, workflow coordination, shared capabilities and gradual modernization of legacy applications.
SOA generally addresses integration across an enterprise, including shared governance, service contracts and legacy platforms. Microservices usually focus on smaller, independently deployable components, so the better choice depends on system boundaries, team ownership and operational needs.
A strong Service-Oriented Architecture specialist should understand API design, SOAP, WSDL, REST, XML, messaging and enterprise integration patterns. Security, identity management, cloud services, observability, testing and process modeling are also valuable.
The right level depends on the number of systems, the importance of the workflows and the condition of existing interfaces. A complex transformation needs a professional who has handled service contracts, dependencies, governance and production integration, not only someone who has created isolated APIs.
Yes. Service-Oriented Architecture work is often suitable for remote collaboration because interface design, documentation, reviews and integration testing can be handled online. On-site sessions in Munich may still help when teams need to map processes, inspect legacy systems or align several business owners.
Ask for examples of service boundaries, integration decisions and migration plans rather than only tool lists. A capable SOA professional can explain trade-offs, document contracts clearly and show how reliability, security and ownership were managed in production.
Service-Oriented Architecture remains relevant in cloud environments when systems need controlled integration across applications, vendors and data domains. Cloud adoption does not remove the need for clear contracts, identity controls, event handling and ownership.
Clear technical English is often essential because service documentation and distributed teams commonly use it. German can be useful for workshops with local stakeholders, especially when specialists must translate business processes into service boundaries and integration rules.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Service-Oriented Architecture in their recent projects is 105 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 843 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Service-Oriented Architecture in their recent projects, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 62% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Service-Oriented Architecture in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Service-Oriented Architecture in their recent projects are German (94%), English (94%), and French (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Service-Oriented Architecture in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (69%), and Retail (56%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Service-Oriented Architecture in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Project Management (88%).
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