Business & Integration Architecture Specialist | Sep 2021 ? Oct 2025

? Spearheaded end-to-end project delivery as Business Analyst and Team Lead for major banking clients, managing teams of 5-7 analysts and developers to deliver complex solutions within timeframe and budget

? Led implementation of optimized process flows and engineered solutions to enhance system efficiency and client value, resulting in a 10% reduction in transaction processing time

? Developed and maintained business architecture models and tailored solutions to address key client challenges related to regulatory compliance and data security

? Translated complex business and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable documentation and user stories for delivery teams

? Oversaw testing and release cycles, ensuring high-quality deployments and minimalizing post-implementation defects, resulting in increasing the uptime of banking systems to 99.8%

? Migrated reporting systems to cloud-based platforms, improving scalability and governance.

? Created training materials and onboarding resources to support technology adopti

Supporting sales acquiring new clients and rollout coordination

• Collecting requirements from different areas and processing them into agreement documentation, concepts and process description for internal and external partners
• Ensuring business requirements are clearly defined, understood and signed off
• Preparing change requests and tracking their execution
• Controlling and reporting budget expenses
• Supporting the resource and budget planning § Preparing internal media releases (newsletters, articles, marketing movie)
• Tracking of the on-going assigned tasks and preparing reporting material for clients achievements
• Preparing a mayor portfolio on IT Services and Management for purchasing and sales usage

Supporting the consolidation of information security systems of Postbank Systems and Deutsche Bank

• Defining and preparing security reports on monthly, quarterly and half-yearly basis – mainly the Information Security Management System (internal & external) reporting
• Building and defining KCIs for internal and external reporting
• Functional support of projects within Information Security reporting
• Pro-active support of managing project risks and issues and minimise their impact on the project
• Supporting daily business and organisational decisions by building presentations on behalf of senior management
• Tracking deliverables and programme meeting structures including preparation of post-meeting minutes and protocols
• Ensuring business requirements are clearly defined, understood and signed off
• Support of business analysis by handling tasks and defining the structure of documentation
• Communication between the requirement office of IT Security and the executing units
• Working proactively on defining new and optimizing existing processes

Achievements

• Creating 7 new KCIs for the repeating reporting on monthly and quarterly basis
• Defining a new PKI-area to adjust to Deutsche Bank requirements

Supporting the definition of cross location of new trading and order routing system through an agile method

• Defining the project scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables and programme meeting structures
• Ensuring business requirements are clearly defined, understood and signed of
• Keeping track and oversight of the programme’s budget and preparing forecasts for senior stakeholders; assigned budget: € 6 M. annually 
• Collecting requirements from different areas and presenting them to the team, reporting feasibility of those requirements to responsible stakeholders such as Head of Department

Achievements

• Leading a follow-up programme after MIFID II and an optimisation programme on order routing of the Deutsche Bank’s Investment platform

Leading an agile project as Project Manager in digitalisation and change of the bank’s trading environment

• Leading daily task management meetings and raising prioritisation requests to senior management in case any dependencies occur
• Strategic guidance to the teams and coordination of tasks across the department of a digitalisation project of a budget of € 15 M. annually
• Keeping track and updating task execution in Jira (Confluence) and preparing dashboards for senior management and stakeholders to make the project’s progress visible
• Negotiating release dates and (if given) delays with the TRM team and supporting Automation Office
• Managing information coming from business side and commute them into user stories and next into tasks to be delivered by the IT section

Achievements

• Building a new digitalised approach of the trading system and preparing the environment for the migration of the house internal trading platform
• Decommissioning of existing database and replacing it with an Oracle equivalent which is saving annually € 130 k maintenance costs

Supporting a Change Management project in Private Banking by using agile methods

• Coordinating downsizing, modernization and consolidation of branches across Germany
• Optimising existing workflow and building a new process on maintaining self-banking devices
• Collecting requirements from different areas and presenting them to the team, reporting feasibility of those requirements to responsible person
• Building forecasts and planning budget allocation including tracking of expenses

Achievements

• Building a process for maintaining self-banking devices which allows the bank to save costs of approximately € 80k annually
• Supporting a project on closure of 40 branches in Germany due to new digitalisation approach of the bank – annually cost savings on rents, staffing and maintenance € 1 M.

Supporting several programmes and leading workflow optimisation projects using waterfall and agile methods, single point of contact for audit issues

• Responsible for communication between high level managers, stakeholders and execution teams
• Collecting requirements from different units, converting them into tasks, planning and preparing decisions on project execution
• Responsible for tracking ongoing work progress and preparing resources (e.g. visualisations, protocols)
• Preparing budget requests, planning budget for further task execution, tracking and forecasting future expenses, organising extra budget
• Responsible for executing tasks and tracking updates resulting from audit findings, coordination of audit negotiations and delivering results for finding closures
• Analysing and optimising of processes and systems, writing and reviewing documentation (procedures, processes, manuals)

Achievements

• Supporting a € 25 M. programme on introducing a standardized security measurements process
• Supporting a € 9 M. programme (Future Workplace) introducing a digitalized working environment
• Leading an optimisation project on network service requests
• Building and introducing a house-owned WLAN with break-out points across main locations in Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Singapore and Chicago; saving annual operation costs of € 230 k