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Vincent Verdet

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Senior Enterprise Architect | IT Business Relationship Manager

Zürich
Vincent Verdet

Last position:

IT Business Partner & Enterprise Architect at Sulzer

  • Established the Enterprise Architecture function from the ground up for Sulzer Group (~13,500 employees, CHF 3.6B revenue)
  • Defined the Technical Governance framework, Target Operating Model, and IT PMO foundation now governing architecture decisions and portfolio demand across all divisions.
  • Deployed SAP LeanIX as the authoritative application portfolio system of record - catalogued 500 applications group-wide (140 for Chemtech), onboarded business and IT stakeholders, and initiated integration with ServiceNow to embed architecture data into operational workflows.
  • Led the divisional & group wide Application Rationalization initiative
  • Decommissioned 15% of the 140 applications Chemtech portfolio, delivering CHF 627k in run-rate savings over two years and materially reducing licensing and support exposure.
  • Defined and executed the divisional AI Roadmap in partnership with Sales, Legal, and R&D leadership
  • Delivered 4 AI solutions into production (including Sales process harmonization and LLM-based IP conflict detection) from a portfolio of 7 prioritized initiatives.
  • Built and owned the 3-year IT Strategic Roadmap for Chemtech
  • Aligned cloud and technology architecture with divisional business priorities and a CHF 1.5M annual investment envelope.
  • Delivered CHF 500k in cost avoidance by challenging and discontinuing funded but low-value initiatives, demonstrated governance discipline and executive influence, with zero implementation spend.
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Gwang Jin Kim

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Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher

Zürich
Gwang Jin Kim

Last position:

Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher at Independent

  • Built and explored applied GenAI, RAG, GraphRAG, local LLM, agentic AI and document-intelligence prototypes for structured analysis, evidence extraction, semantic search, technical reasoning and decision-useful reporting
  • Developed private local-LLM workflows and AI system patterns focused on privacy, reproducibility, reviewability, low-cost inference and practical user control
  • Built reproducible Python/R workflows for data analysis, automation, API-driven tooling, validation logic, technical documentation and AI-assisted software development
  • Designed workflows around explicit assumptions, traceable inputs, reviewable outputs and failure-mode awareness rather than black-box “looks good” demonstrations
  • Supported RAHN AG in a chemical/regulatory environment with data extraction and processing around WERCS, a regulatory application for chemical product and compliance data
  • Explored complex application/database schemas and wrote nested SQL queries to extract information for mixture calculations, component relationships, regulatory rules and reporting logic
  • Continued hands-on development in Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Docker/Linux deployment patterns, REST/API workflows, error handling, technical writing and fast AI-assisted prototyping
  • Built technical writing and documentation workflows that turn complex systems into clear runbooks, checklists, decision notes and user-facing explanations
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Urs Steger

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Dipl. Ing. FH

Thal
Urs Steger

Last position:

CargoMonitor App at MSR Electronics GmbH

MVP app for shock logger to monitor and analyze transport data via BLE as a Kotlin Multiplatform solution for Android and iOS.

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Milan Simonović

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Cloud architect and DevOps engineer with two decades of expertise and a proven track record of taking ideas and delivering them

Zürich
Milan Simonović

Last position:

Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq

  • Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
  • Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
  • Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
  • Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
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Monika Elsen

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Tax Specialist

Oberengstringen
Monika Elsen

Last position:

Tax Specialist at Julius Bär / Bosshard & Partner

  • Operational responsibility in tax relief at source
  • Took over and stabilized a complex department during a project phase
  • Analysis, review, and optimization of existing processes and workflows
  • Updating and further development of the specialist manual
  • Analysis and resolution of individual cases in an international tax environment
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Detlef Witt

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Senior Software Developer

Hildisrieden
Detlef Witt

Last position:

Sourcing Manager at BEDAG Informatik AG

  • Solely responsible for managing procurement operations
  • WTO tenders in an open procedure
  • Invitation process
  • Direct call-offs and mini-tenders from framework contracts
  • Simap.ch, SuisseOffer.ch, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft 365 applications
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Ulysse Brice Mbami

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Agile Quality Engineer & Quality Master

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Ulysse Brice Mbami

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Agile Quality Engineer & Quality Master at Die Mobiliar

  • Test strategy design
  • Continuous defect tracking and documentation
  • Test case creation and execution for performance and end-to-end tests as well as mass tests
  • Responsibility for all test activities in the team
  • Requirements and documentation analysis
  • Agile testing based on stories, epics and features
  • Test management and coordination
  • Use of SAFe (PI planning, PI preparation, sprints, daily meetings, Kanban board, retrospective, review)
  • Use of GitHub, Tortoise, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, Splunk, Swagger UI, Tosca, Rocket.Chat, Visual Studio Code, Oracle SQL Developer
  • SAFe framework and project abroad
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Peter Wydler

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IT Consultant

Wallisellen
Peter Wydler

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IT Consultant at WYP-Consulting

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Piotr Seredyn

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CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager

Zürich
Piotr Seredyn

Last position:

CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager at Avaloq Group AG

  • Clients: Central banks of the most developed economies in the world, German, Swiss, Luxembourgish, Monegasque, Singaporean, Japanese wealth managers and universal/private banks, world’s largest investment banks
  • Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives
  • Project managing portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps)
  • Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform; modules: CRM, client data management, wealth management, portfolio management (generating over 90% of company revenues)
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Reporting to Head of Disruptive Innovation Division; stakeholder to five product owners & two domain owners
  • Accountable for delivery of annual themes and quarterly key deliverables
  • Managing demand vs supply via QBR process: book of work, execution, reporting, risk management
  • Directly managing around 40 external consultants (front-end/back-end engineers, BAs, designers)
  • Hiring and managing resources in eight countries
  • Running quarterly divisional closure meetings presenting achievements and challenges
  • Resolving cross-team dependencies and internal/external conflicts
  • Owning and controlling maintenance budget; planning, forecasting, execution; ensuring demand matches supply
  • Identifying and staffing key roles with chapter leads
  • Approach: Agile, Scrum of Scrums, QBR/OKRs
  • Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA (JQL)
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Hanspeter Jost

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Lead Salesforce Consultant DACH

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Hanspeter Jost

Last position:

Lead Salesforce Consultant DACH at DXC Technology

  • Recording, validating, and coordinating customer requirements
  • Analyzing customers' business processes, and designing and implementing solutions in Salesforce
  • Designing and developing Salesforce architectures using Sales and Service Cloud
  • Maintaining and expanding my skills to stay current with Salesforce's new features
  • Taking an active role in the pre-sales phase and working closely with sales and pre-sales teams
  • Building and strengthening the team's expertise in new areas
  • Actively helping to define and align my role within DXC's best practices
  • MC Growth implementation
  • AI Agentforce Agents Builder
  • Agent Designer with elements.cloud
  • Salesforce org assessments
  • Process configuration mining
  • Serving as a single point of contact for global SFDC contacts
  • Coordinating projects with the EMEA and global headquarters
  • Preparing proposals and presales work with Salesforce Account Executives and client partners for global accounts
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Reinhold Schätz

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Senior Software Developer

Risch-Rotkreuz
Reinhold Schätz

Last position:

Senior Software Developer at Hitachi Energy

  • Support and further development of the Leegoo Builder
  • Handling ad hoc requests
  • Definition of rules/attributes and their rules
  • Optimizing and managing SQL queries
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Markus Fankhauser

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Logistics Expert/Coach

Hettlingen
Markus Fankhauser

Last position:

Logistics Expert/Coach at RAPID Technic AG

  • Coaching, developing fundamentals and leading technical aspects in logistics transformation
  • Extending SAP WM functionalities
  • Efficiency measures in shuttle warehouse technology
  • Setting up logistics operations reporting
  • Comprehensive inventory planning and execution
  • Preparing the technical and commercial foundations for cooperation with external logistics service providers
  • Recommendations for the future process and organizational structure
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Max Rosari

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ICT Solution Architect Senior

Bern
Max Rosari

Last position:

ICT Solution Architect Senior at ewb, Energy, Water

  • Questioning and discussion of technical requirements and coordination with the team
  • Contributing to objectives of the Digital Transformation Services unit and implementation of objectives
  • Analyzing, specifying, updating and delivering architecture models to implement digital solutions in line with business, data infrastructure and requirements
  • Selecting suitable technical options for application design considering interoperability, reversibility, scalability, usability, accessibility and security and optimizing cost/quality ratio
  • Creating and maintaining concept documents, architecture models and other technical documentation
  • Reviewing services to be provided and other documents for solution development
  • Collaborating with IT enterprise architect, business analyst, project manager, developers, testers and process owner in design and documentation of technical specifications for new and further developments
  • Communicating and supporting concepts to relevant stakeholders
  • Participating in enterprise architecture activities and ensuring compliance with principles, standards and guidelines
  • Monitoring compliance with defined design at application, solution and enterprise level
  • Developing and testing existing and new solutions as required
  • Supporting and guiding development teams in implementation of new projects or maintenance of existing products, assuming product manager role if required
  • Establishing and ensuring best practice in implementation, documentation, testing and packaging for distribution
  • Contributing to handling of reported incidents and requests assigned to third level support and follow-up actions as required
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Roland Arato

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Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst

Horgen
Roland Arato

Last position:

Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst at Init Services GmbH

  • Project management: Implementation of SAP & EBX integration for master and reference data management and led development of AI supported services for data management and privacy-oriented solutions
  • Business analysis: Executed in-depth requirement gathering and data analyzes for MDM implementation, supported service integration using REST APIs to enhance service interoperability, led the requirement gathering, analysis, and implementation of agent-based AI services
  • Technologies: SAP BP & FICO & MM, Tibco EBX, n8n, custom AI development in Java, Python, RDBMS, cloud

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Statistics of experts using SQL

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

24 years

Position duration

2.9 years

Positions per freelancer

14

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Bachelor's degree or higher

83%

Master's degree or higher

63%

Doctorate

11%

Certifications per freelancer

5

Most common languages

English, German, French

Speak two or more languages

97%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Switzerland using SQL

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 909 €

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Median rate 800 €

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

SQL basics

SQL, or Structured Query Language, is the standard way to work with relational data. Companies use it to read, filter, join, insert, update, and delete records in systems that must stay consistent and searchable. Strong specialists write clear queries that are easy to maintain and safe to run.

Common use cases

  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Data cleaning and migration
  • Application back-end queries
  • Audit, access, and compliance checks
  • Warehousing and analytics queries

SQL appears in product systems, finance, operations, logistics, and customer platforms. In Switzerland, it is often part of data-heavy work in banking, insurance, industrial firms, and international service teams.

What strong specialists do

A strong SQL professional understands schema design, indexing, joins, transactions, and query plans. They can spot slow queries, reduce locking issues, and structure data so future work stays simple. Good work is not only correct; it is readable, efficient, and predictable under load.

Ecosystem and tools

SQL work often sits next to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle Database. Many projects also involve BI tools, ETL jobs, dbt models, and analytics notebooks. Specialists should know how SQL behaves across these systems and where dialect differences matter.

When companies bring in help

Companies usually look for freelance SQL experts when reports are wrong, queries are slow, or a migration needs care. They also bring in support for data model reviews, legacy database cleanup, and building views or stored procedures for internal teams. Remote work is common, but on-site sessions in Switzerland can help when data access, stakeholders, or legacy systems need close coordination.

What to check before hiring

  • Can they explain their query choices in plain language?
  • Do they understand indexing and execution plans?
  • Have they worked with your database engine and its dialect?
  • Can they handle sensitive data with care?
  • Do they write SQL that others can review and reuse?

The best specialists leave behind stable queries, cleaner schemas, and fewer surprises. They also document assumptions so your team can keep working after the project ends.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions that come up most around SQL.

SQL is used to store, retrieve, and shape data in relational databases. Companies rely on it for reporting, application features, data checks, migrations, and operational workflows. It is the core language behind many dashboards and back-end data tasks.

Yes. SQL is the common abbreviation for Structured Query Language. Searchers may use either name, but they refer to the same standard language for working with relational data.

SQL is usually the better fit when data has clear relationships, transactions matter, and queries need strong structure. NoSQL systems can be useful for flexible or very large document, key-value, or event data, but they trade away some of the consistency and query style that SQL offers. Many systems use both, depending on the use case.

A strong SQL specialist usually knows data modelling, indexing, schema design, and performance tuning. Depending on the project, they may also work with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, dbt, or BI tools. Understanding ETL and data quality checks is often important too.

A simple reporting task may need only a specialist who can write clean queries and understand the database structure. A migration, performance review, or production schema change needs deeper SQL experience and a careful approach to risk. The more sensitive or business-critical the data, the more important senior judgment becomes.

Yes, most SQL work can be done remotely because it centers on database access, query review, and collaboration in shared tools. For companies in Switzerland, on-site time can still help when access rules are strict, workshop sessions are needed, or business users want direct support. Many projects use a mix of both.

Look for clear query logic, good use of joins and indexes, and an ability to explain trade-offs. A strong SQL freelancer should also ask about data volume, database engine, naming standards, and who will maintain the work later. Readability and safe changes matter as much as raw speed.

Teams often seek SQL help when reports disagree, queries become slow, or a database change affects production data. It also comes up during migrations, analytics projects, and cleanup of older schemas or stored procedures. If the team spends too much time fixing the same data issue, outside help is usually useful.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used SQL in their recent projects is 114 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 909 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used SQL in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 63% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used SQL in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SQL in their recent projects are English (97%), German (96%), and French (53%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (82%), Banking and Finance (68%), and Manufacturing (56%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Product Development (75%), and Project Management (71%).

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