SOAP Experts in Zurich
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Zurich, who have recently used SOAP
Nikita V.
Last position:
Salesforce Technical Architect at Fennia
- Designed and engineered a shared web component library for a customer portal serving 360,000+ private users and integrated the LWC framework with Storybook via Rollup.
- Resolved WCAG AA compliance issues to support strict accessibility requirements.
- Integrated legacy systems into a new portal via REST API to support existing products.
Mohamad K.
Last position:
Senior Backend Developer at Standing on Giants
- Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
- Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
- Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
- Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
- Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
- Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
- Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
- Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
- Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
- Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
- Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.
Bojan A.
Last position:
Full Stack Developer with Angular at Further Education
- Highest level achieved: Certified Mid-Level Angular Developer
- 13 technologies newly learned or refreshed with (re-)certifications
- Current: Docker, Azure, Quarkus
Ahmed R.
Last position:
AI & Automation Engineer at Teosek GmbH
- Build prototypes, expand AI skills, and practical application in a startup context.
- Transition phase: further training in prompt engineering, APIs, AI, working on independent prototype projects, and collaborating at a friend's startup.
- Technologies: LangChain, REST, Python, Java, JS, TS, Node.
Peter S.
Last position:
Web Application Developer PHP / WordPress Plugin Development at Gemeinde Bauma
- Analysis, consulting, and development of a WordPress application for the digital processing and delivery of the Bauma chronicle archive
Karim I.
Last position:
Test Engineer at Ixtrac AG for Swica
- Building a framework for automated website testing
- Testing, regression testing
- Defect management
- Release management, UAT, agile testing
- Feature discussions with business
- Test management
Dariusz K.
Last position:
Business System Analyst at Zurich Insurance
Participating in a strategic enterprise project to introduce a centralized customer data platform ("Single Source of Truth") to eliminate redundant data storage and accelerate digital services
Analyzing and documenting business and system requirements for migrating large, heterogeneous data sets (ETL) and for continuous data synchronization between core systems and the new platform
Close collaboration with business units, data engineers and architects to gather and validate requirements, and to ensure data quality, consistency and regulatory compliance
Defining the migration strategy, specifying ETL processes and synchronization mechanisms, and documenting technical interfaces
Developing and executing test cases for migration and synchronization processes, and performing defect analysis to ensure data integrity and system stability
Technologies: SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure DevOps, Confluence, UML, RESTful Services, Swagger, Postman
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
Lars N.
Last position:
Coordinator of a scientific OpenSource project
- Coordination of a scientific OpenSource project
- Administration of publication in the IEEE proceedings
- Presentation at the most prominent international conference for neural networks (WCCI IJCNN 2022)
Daniel S.
Last position:
Senior Manager at devpoint GmbH
- Concept development, requirements engineering, and implementation support for a Dubai-based company integrating processes into a CRM
- Business analysis and requirements engineering at Swisscom for the integration of a marketing planning tool at Swisscom
- Integration of a new knowledge management system into the business processes at Swisscom AG - REST API definition
- Project manager, consultant, and sparring partner for the realignment and process digitization at GIB Solutions AG
- Process designer and prototype developer for an AI-based solution for a real estate property marketing system in Dubai
- Ad interim head of the ICT department at a telecommunications company, reorganizing and optimizing processes with 5 people at GIB Solutions AG
- Agile requirements engineer / external PO for a web-based solution for the German company DEHN AG
- Project management and consulting for the existing marketing and campaign planning solution at Swisscom AG
- Concept, setup, and development of an intelligent refrigerator, IoT, hardware, software
- Setup of devpoint's Nearshore offering ALoHA
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Statistics of experts using SOAP
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
1.5 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
75%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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 Zurich 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 Zurich using SOAP
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.
SOAP 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 (100%)
- Information Technology (90%)
- Insurance (80%)
- Professional Services (50%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Manufacturing (40%)
- Telecommunication (40%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What SOAP does
SOAP, short for Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML-based messaging standard for exchanging structured data between applications. It commonly runs over HTTP or HTTPS and defines a formal envelope, header and body structure. WSDL describes available operations, messages and data types so systems can integrate against a clear contract.
Where it runs
SOAP remains important in systems that need strict interfaces, formal contracts and predictable error handling. It appears in banking, insurance, healthcare, government, logistics and large enterprise landscapes, including integrations with SAP and other established business systems. Services may expose customer, payment, policy, supply-chain or identity operations.
Ecosystem and tooling
SOAP work spans WSDL, XML Schema, XSD, XPath and namespaces, with WS-Security, WS-Addressing and WS-ReliableMessaging used where the integration requires them. Experts often work with Apache CXF, JAX-WS, Spring Web Services, Microsoft WCF, SoapUI and Postman. They also connect SOAP endpoints to Java, .NET, SAP and message-oriented infrastructure.
Typical project work
- Define or revise WSDL contracts and XML schemas
- Generate client or service bindings from existing contracts
- Implement authentication, signing, encryption and certificates
- Map SOAP messages to REST, databases, queues or ERP processes
- Test interoperability, faults, performance and backward compatibility
When specialists help
Companies bring in freelance SOAP specialists when a legacy integration is business-critical, documentation is incomplete or an external partner changes its contract. They can stabilize a service migration, investigate namespace and serialization faults, or replace brittle manual tests with repeatable coverage. In Zurich, remote collaboration often works well, while regulated or complex enterprise work may benefit from on-site workshops and strong German or English communication.
What strong experts bring
Strong professionals read WSDL and XSD precisely, understand XML processing and can trace a request across application, network and security layers. They distinguish contract defects from transport, certificate and business-logic issues. Look for clear test evidence, careful versioning, secure handling of credentials, and experience integrating SOAP with the specific Java, .NET, SAP or middleware environment already in use.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about SOAP.
SOAP is used to exchange structured messages between applications through formally defined service contracts. It is common in banking, insurance, healthcare, government and enterprise systems where XML schemas, security standards and reliable fault handling matter.
SOAP provides a formal protocol model with WSDL, XML messaging and standards such as WS-Security. REST is usually lighter and more flexible for web APIs, but SOAP can be the better fit when strict contracts, enterprise security or compatibility with an established service ecosystem are required.
A strong SOAP specialist should understand XML, XSD, WSDL, namespaces and HTTP or HTTPS. Useful adjacent skills include Java or .NET, SAP integration, message queues, TLS certificates, XML Schema validation, SoapUI and API test automation.
The right level depends on the scope. A simple client connection may need focused integration experience, while contract changes, WS-Security, certificate chains or multi-system fault tracing call for a seasoned SOAP professional who can review the whole interface lifecycle.
Yes. SOAP work is often suitable for remote collaboration when contracts, logs, test environments and access procedures are documented. On-site sessions in Zurich can still help with architecture workshops, regulated environments, partner coordination or access to restricted systems.
Ask the specialist to explain a real WSDL, show how they isolate XML, transport and application faults, and describe their approach to versioning and security. Strong SOAP professionals provide concrete test cases, readable integration notes and evidence that interoperability was verified with the actual partner system.
SOAP is usually preferable when an organization depends on existing WSDL contracts, WS-* standards or established enterprise partners. GraphQL suits flexible data queries, while gRPC is effective for efficient internal service communication, but neither is always a practical replacement for a contractual SOAP interface.
A SOAP freelancer may resolve namespace mismatches, schema validation failures, broken generated bindings, authentication errors or incompatible fault messages. They can also document undocumented services, improve automated tests and support a controlled transition to REST or another integration style.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SOAP in their recent projects is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 775 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SOAP in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 75% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SOAP in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SOAP in their recent projects are German (100%), English (90%), and French (40%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SOAP in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (100%), Information Technology (90%), and Insurance (80%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used SOAP in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (90%), and Project Management (70%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SOAP
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