IT Infrastructure Carve-out (Allianz ? ARCH Insurance)
IT Infrastructure Delivery ManagerCarve-out / DemergerIT InfrastructureCutover Management...
IT Infrastructure Delivery Manager
Infrastructure Delivery Manager on the Allianz Technology side for the sale of Allianz's North American Midcorp business, including its front-office IT system, to ARCH Insurance
Delivered the transfer of mailboxes, SharePoint sites, employee data, IT assets and virtual clients over a secured channel
Set up a dedicated environment for ARCH's IT teams to learn the application
Delivered within a fixed five-month window, without slippage
Global Workplace Modernisation ? SAFe Agile Release Train
Release Train EngineerSAFeRelease Train EngineerAgile at Scale...
Release Train Engineer
Set up and ran a SAFe Agile Release Train of ~90 people in 13 Scrum teams across APAC, India, Europe and the US (members in 42 countries)
Built the team structure, hired Scrum Masters and coached Product Owners and Business Owners; the AGCS CIO acted as Chief Business Owner
PI planning, ROAM risk management and a Kanban dashboard giving executives a live view of delivery
Accountable for workplace modernisation and cloud adoption: file shares to SharePoint, on-premise Exchange to Exchange Online, Microsoft Intune and Veridium rollout, Citrix application virtualisation, softphone telephony, global asset lifecycle and office migrations
Authored programme status material Allianz executives took into Board meetings; led escalation and executive communication during critical cutovers
Microsoft 365SharePointExchange OnlineIntuneCitrixJiraAtlassian Confluencemiro
SAFeRelease Train EngineerAgile at ScaleCloud MigrationDigital Workplace
Program Consultant / Product OwnerProgram ManagementApplication RationalisationProduct Owner...
Program Consultant / Product Owner
Delivered the virtual desktop (AVC) rollout to 13,000 users worldwide, with 8,000 users on the German-based platform in direct scope, in migration waves across EMEA, APAC and North America
Defined the global application layer, created user personas and remediated, repackaged and tested applications with business sign-off
Analysed dependencies of 250+ applications and rationalised the estate to ~80, cutting licence, packaging and maintenance cost
Delivered the Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade, including remediation of 250+ applications and Excel macros
Supported the programme executive in planning and executing a ~?30M annual budget; managed multi-vendor testing and quality assurance
Program ManagementApplication RationalisationProduct OwnerMulti-Vendor Management
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS)
Munich
1 year 11 months
2016-07 - 2018-05
EU Data Centre Consolidation & Cloud Readiness
Program Manager / Test & Application Management LeadData Center MigrationCloud MigrationTest Management...
Program Manager / Test & Application Management Lead
Test & Application Management Lead (~30 people, Munich and India) for migrating 100+ global and EU applications to IBM private cloud in Frankfurt and Paris
Turned around a stalled programme (?30M spent, limited progress) to on-time completion, avoiding a ?50M penalty
Produced the application architecture and impact analysis; decoupled dependencies for cloud readiness
Coordinated remediation, sanity checks, testing, business sign-off and Works Council approvals for weekend cutovers, with direct backing from the CIO and COO
Architecture passed external KPMG audit without qualification; provided BaFin compliance evidence for the migration
IBM Private Cloud
Data Center MigrationCloud MigrationTest ManagementApplication ArchitectureAudit Readiness
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS)
Munich
6 months
2016-01 - 2016-06
Output Management Programme
IT Program ManagerProgram ManagementOutput ManagementAgile...
IT Program Manager
Program Manager for a standard output management system across Generali's German operating entities, run in English and with agile delivery
Structured delivery into technology workpackets; led requirements and architecture workshops with customer teams across Germany
Aligned sprint plans with workpacket dependencies and Generali's requirements management team
The client paused the programme after the initial phase to re-evaluate requirements across entities
Atlassian ConfluenceAtlassian JIRA
Program ManagementOutput ManagementAgileRequirements Management
Generali
Hamburg
1 year
2015-01 - 2015-12
Presales ? Omnichannel Platform for 9 APAC Countries
Technical Lead ? Delivery ManagerDelivery ManagementApplication ManagementTransition Management...
Technical Lead ? Delivery Manager
Delivery Manager: managed a 200+ application portfolio and a 150-person onshore/offshore team
Delivered Aviva's enterprise Document Management Platform (Dialogue for document generation, IBM Content Manager for storage and archiving), integrated with underwriting and claims systems including Guidewire
Grew the portfolio from ~£0.5M to ~£15M in annual revenue over three years; negotiated fixed-price contracts and SOWs
Bid-team member and Application Change workstream lead on TCS's winning ~£1B multi-year Aviva outsourcing bid
Transition Manager: planned and ran knowledge transfer from incumbent suppliers, with KPIs, risk register and weekly management reporting; no operational gaps
Innovation Evangelist: scaled an innovation lab from 2 to 12 people and built 20+ business cases. Agile Change Agent: led Agile transformation for 1,500 associates
Technical Lead: built a commercial property underwriting application contributing ~20% of the client's revenue, leading 7 developers with requirements gathered directly from underwriters and brokers
Solution Architect ? Workpacket / Program Delivery ManagerApplication DecommissioningLegacy ModernisationMainframe...
Solution Architect ? Workpacket / Program Delivery Manager
Lotus Notes: built the roadmap for 2,000+ applications (sunset, retire, migrate to SharePoint, rewrite)
Secured business buy-off and budget approval with L1 estimates; reported to the Steering Board at each gate
Led delivery with ~45 people across SharePoint migration, retirement and rewrite streams
Mainframe: migrated run-off policy and legacy claims data into consolidated systems, enabling decommissioning of 100+ legacy applications after the Norwich Union/CGU merger
Master of Business Administration, WHU?Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar
Master of Business Administration
WHU?Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar
Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), Evanston, USA & WHU ? Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
Grade : 1.4
4 years
2002-08 - 2006-07
Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India
Bachelor of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India
Mechanical Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS
PRINCE2 Practitioner
SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer
Enterprise Architect Foundation
IF1 Insurance, Legal & Regulatory (CII)
Generative AI for Business Applications (WHU)
Telc Deutsch B1 (Zertifikat Deutsch)
Position
Position
IT Programme & Transformation Manager for insurance and financial services. I lead regulated, high-stakes IT programmes from plan to delivery, often taking over when a programme is at risk and the deadline is fixed. Fields of application: data centre and cloud migration, application rationalisation and legacy decommissioning, carve-outs and demergers, DORA incident governance and audit readiness, and agile delivery at scale (SAFe RTE). Roles: Programme Manager, Transformation Lead, Interim ITSM/PMO Lead. 19 years with Allianz, Aviva and Generali in Germany, the UK and India.
?50M penalty avoided by turning around an Allianz data centre consolidation (KPMG audit passed without qualification)
SAFe Agile Release Train of ~90 people across 42 countries
application estate rationalised from 250+ to ~80
infrastructure carve-out delivered in a fixed 5-month window
DORA incident governance implemented as interim ITSM Lead.
Working Mode :
Available immediately, full-time. Based in Munich; on-site, hybrid or remote across Germany and DACH.
Working language English (negotiation level); German B1, progressing to B2.
Experienced in international, English-speaking project environments and in alignment with German works councils and auditors.
Branchen
Branchen
Insurance (19 years): Allianz, Aviva, Generali. Commercial and specialty lines, P&C, commercial property underwriting; underwriting, claims and document management systems (incl. Guidewire integration). Financial services regulation: DORA incident governance, GDPR, BaFin compliance evidence, KPMG-audited application architecture. Insurance IT operations: data centre consolidation, application portfolio management, carve-outs, ITSM. Working environments in Germany, the UK and India.
Einsatzorte
Einsatzorte
Munich (+100km) Frankfurt am Main (+50km) Cologne (+50km) Düsseldorf (+50km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich
Projekte
Projekte
9 months
2026-01 - now
Logistics Venture ? AI & Data Architecture
Co-Founder & Chief AI ArchitectData ArchitectureMVP DevelopmentLogistics
Co-Founder & Chief AI Architect
Co-founded an early-stage logistics venture (own venture, not client delivery)
Designed the data architecture to structure fragmented legacy WMS/TMS data into a clean, usable foundation
Built a working MVP with rule-based optimisation, KPI recommendations and data-quality checks
Data ArchitectureMVP DevelopmentLogistics
Geretsried
8 months
2024-10 - 2025-05
Interim ITSM Lead & DORA Incident Reporting
Interim ITSM LeadDORAITSMIT Governance...
Interim ITSM Lead
Stepped in as interim replacement for the ITSM Lead
Ran ITSM governance across incident, change and risk management
Implemented the DORA incident-reporting mechanism, including assessing and reporting potential DORA incidents
IT Infrastructure Carve-out (Allianz ? ARCH Insurance)
IT Infrastructure Delivery ManagerCarve-out / DemergerIT InfrastructureCutover Management...
IT Infrastructure Delivery Manager
Infrastructure Delivery Manager on the Allianz Technology side for the sale of Allianz's North American Midcorp business, including its front-office IT system, to ARCH Insurance
Delivered the transfer of mailboxes, SharePoint sites, employee data, IT assets and virtual clients over a secured channel
Set up a dedicated environment for ARCH's IT teams to learn the application
Delivered within a fixed five-month window, without slippage
Global Workplace Modernisation ? SAFe Agile Release Train
Release Train EngineerSAFeRelease Train EngineerAgile at Scale...
Release Train Engineer
Set up and ran a SAFe Agile Release Train of ~90 people in 13 Scrum teams across APAC, India, Europe and the US (members in 42 countries)
Built the team structure, hired Scrum Masters and coached Product Owners and Business Owners; the AGCS CIO acted as Chief Business Owner
PI planning, ROAM risk management and a Kanban dashboard giving executives a live view of delivery
Accountable for workplace modernisation and cloud adoption: file shares to SharePoint, on-premise Exchange to Exchange Online, Microsoft Intune and Veridium rollout, Citrix application virtualisation, softphone telephony, global asset lifecycle and office migrations
Authored programme status material Allianz executives took into Board meetings; led escalation and executive communication during critical cutovers
Microsoft 365SharePointExchange OnlineIntuneCitrixJiraAtlassian Confluencemiro
SAFeRelease Train EngineerAgile at ScaleCloud MigrationDigital Workplace
Program Consultant / Product OwnerProgram ManagementApplication RationalisationProduct Owner...
Program Consultant / Product Owner
Delivered the virtual desktop (AVC) rollout to 13,000 users worldwide, with 8,000 users on the German-based platform in direct scope, in migration waves across EMEA, APAC and North America
Defined the global application layer, created user personas and remediated, repackaged and tested applications with business sign-off
Analysed dependencies of 250+ applications and rationalised the estate to ~80, cutting licence, packaging and maintenance cost
Delivered the Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade, including remediation of 250+ applications and Excel macros
Supported the programme executive in planning and executing a ~?30M annual budget; managed multi-vendor testing and quality assurance
Program ManagementApplication RationalisationProduct OwnerMulti-Vendor Management
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS)
Munich
1 year 11 months
2016-07 - 2018-05
EU Data Centre Consolidation & Cloud Readiness
Program Manager / Test & Application Management LeadData Center MigrationCloud MigrationTest Management...
Program Manager / Test & Application Management Lead
Test & Application Management Lead (~30 people, Munich and India) for migrating 100+ global and EU applications to IBM private cloud in Frankfurt and Paris
Turned around a stalled programme (?30M spent, limited progress) to on-time completion, avoiding a ?50M penalty
Produced the application architecture and impact analysis; decoupled dependencies for cloud readiness
Coordinated remediation, sanity checks, testing, business sign-off and Works Council approvals for weekend cutovers, with direct backing from the CIO and COO
Architecture passed external KPMG audit without qualification; provided BaFin compliance evidence for the migration
IBM Private Cloud
Data Center MigrationCloud MigrationTest ManagementApplication ArchitectureAudit Readiness
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS)
Munich
6 months
2016-01 - 2016-06
Output Management Programme
IT Program ManagerProgram ManagementOutput ManagementAgile...
IT Program Manager
Program Manager for a standard output management system across Generali's German operating entities, run in English and with agile delivery
Structured delivery into technology workpackets; led requirements and architecture workshops with customer teams across Germany
Aligned sprint plans with workpacket dependencies and Generali's requirements management team
The client paused the programme after the initial phase to re-evaluate requirements across entities
Atlassian ConfluenceAtlassian JIRA
Program ManagementOutput ManagementAgileRequirements Management
Generali
Hamburg
1 year
2015-01 - 2015-12
Presales ? Omnichannel Platform for 9 APAC Countries
Technical Lead ? Delivery ManagerDelivery ManagementApplication ManagementTransition Management...
Technical Lead ? Delivery Manager
Delivery Manager: managed a 200+ application portfolio and a 150-person onshore/offshore team
Delivered Aviva's enterprise Document Management Platform (Dialogue for document generation, IBM Content Manager for storage and archiving), integrated with underwriting and claims systems including Guidewire
Grew the portfolio from ~£0.5M to ~£15M in annual revenue over three years; negotiated fixed-price contracts and SOWs
Bid-team member and Application Change workstream lead on TCS's winning ~£1B multi-year Aviva outsourcing bid
Transition Manager: planned and ran knowledge transfer from incumbent suppliers, with KPIs, risk register and weekly management reporting; no operational gaps
Innovation Evangelist: scaled an innovation lab from 2 to 12 people and built 20+ business cases. Agile Change Agent: led Agile transformation for 1,500 associates
Technical Lead: built a commercial property underwriting application contributing ~20% of the client's revenue, leading 7 developers with requirements gathered directly from underwriters and brokers
Solution Architect ? Workpacket / Program Delivery ManagerApplication DecommissioningLegacy ModernisationMainframe...
Solution Architect ? Workpacket / Program Delivery Manager
Lotus Notes: built the roadmap for 2,000+ applications (sunset, retire, migrate to SharePoint, rewrite)
Secured business buy-off and budget approval with L1 estimates; reported to the Steering Board at each gate
Led delivery with ~45 people across SharePoint migration, retirement and rewrite streams
Mainframe: migrated run-off policy and legacy claims data into consolidated systems, enabling decommissioning of 100+ legacy applications after the Norwich Union/CGU merger
Master of Business Administration, WHU?Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar
Master of Business Administration
WHU?Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar
Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), Evanston, USA & WHU ? Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
Grade : 1.4
4 years
2002-08 - 2006-07
Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India
Bachelor of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India
Mechanical Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS
PRINCE2 Practitioner
SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer
Enterprise Architect Foundation
IF1 Insurance, Legal & Regulatory (CII)
Generative AI for Business Applications (WHU)
Telc Deutsch B1 (Zertifikat Deutsch)
Position
Position
IT Programme & Transformation Manager for insurance and financial services. I lead regulated, high-stakes IT programmes from plan to delivery, often taking over when a programme is at risk and the deadline is fixed. Fields of application: data centre and cloud migration, application rationalisation and legacy decommissioning, carve-outs and demergers, DORA incident governance and audit readiness, and agile delivery at scale (SAFe RTE). Roles: Programme Manager, Transformation Lead, Interim ITSM/PMO Lead. 19 years with Allianz, Aviva and Generali in Germany, the UK and India.
?50M penalty avoided by turning around an Allianz data centre consolidation (KPMG audit passed without qualification)
SAFe Agile Release Train of ~90 people across 42 countries
application estate rationalised from 250+ to ~80
infrastructure carve-out delivered in a fixed 5-month window
DORA incident governance implemented as interim ITSM Lead.
Working Mode :
Available immediately, full-time. Based in Munich; on-site, hybrid or remote across Germany and DACH.
Working language English (negotiation level); German B1, progressing to B2.
Experienced in international, English-speaking project environments and in alignment with German works councils and auditors.
Branchen
Branchen
Insurance (19 years): Allianz, Aviva, Generali. Commercial and specialty lines, P&C, commercial property underwriting; underwriting, claims and document management systems (incl. Guidewire integration). Financial services regulation: DORA incident governance, GDPR, BaFin compliance evidence, KPMG-audited application architecture. Insurance IT operations: data centre consolidation, application portfolio management, carve-outs, ITSM. Working environments in Germany, the UK and India.
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