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Christian Dröge

IT Business Consultant & Lecturer

€800/day
Frankfurt am Main, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Christian

Agile IT Business Consultant with a focus on IT Business Analysis, Requirements Engineering, and IT Project Management, possessing comprehensive expertise in Data Management, IT Strategy, Digitalization, and Enterprise Architecture.
Extensive experience in managing IT teams, optimizing IT processes, and implementing IT security standards.
Specializing in IT transformation projects, process digitalization, and change management. Profound knowledge in ERP/CRM systems, DWH, Business Intelligence, IT Governance, and Cloud Technologies.
I have successfully supported and implemented IT projects in the Financial Services/Asset Management, Public Sector, and Transport & Logistics industries since 2007.
I am very proficient in requirements analysis and management, as well as in classic, agile, and hybrid project management methodologies, including Waterfall (Specifications), V-Model XT, Scrum (Backlog, User Stories, etc.), and Kanban. Furthermore, I have broad knowledge of technologies and approaches (Business Case, Proof of Concept, Make or Buy, etc.) for digitalization and digital transformation projects.
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Frankfurt am Main (up to 50km)

Experience

  • DekaBank
    Application Manager/Business Analyst
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    July 2025 - April 2026 (9 months)
    Stadt Luxemburg, Luxembourg
    Role: Product Owner, IT Business Analyst in Application Management
    Topic: Support and further development of a portfolio management system PM1
    As an external IT consultant for Application and Requirements Management PM1, I support projects with the further development and optimization of a portfolio management system. My responsibilities include functional and technical analysis, conception, and quality assurance in close coordination with various project teams and stakeholders, developing solutions and managing their implementation.
    Project Description
    • Implementation of SCRUM – Epics and User Stories for projects
    • Review of requirements
    • Creation of IT concepts based on the provided functional concepts and submission to the software manufacturer
    • Quality assurance of software deliveries through tests and bug analysis
    • Creation/validation of authorization concepts
    • Documentation of completed work and creation of installation instructions
    • Execution of developer and integration tests
    • Support with incident processing
    • Data analysis and design of reporting

    Projects (Selection)
    • Creation and implementation of the GDPR deletion concept
    • Introduction and testing of the expersoft GDPR module
    • Analysis, design, and testing of an interface between the customer application (PM1 EBP) and FileNet with authorizations and mapping for document delivery
    • Introduction of Artifactory
    • Testing and documentation of anonymization solutions

    IT Environment: J2EE Application Server Architecture (JBOSS), Oracle Database, SQL (DB/2 and Oracle), Windows and Linux OS, PM1 software from Expersoft, Confluence, JIRA, Octane, Grafana, BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Office, REST APIs, OpenAPI, JSON, IBM FileNet, Microsoft Access, Artifactory
    Atlassian JIRA Atlassian Confluence Project Management Requirements Engineering IT Consulting
  • Deutsche Bank (DWS Investment GmbH),
    Lead Business Functional Analyst
    June 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
    Topic: IT Business Analysis and Project Management for IT Projects (2 x Data Center Migrations, 1 x On-Premise to Cloud, 1 x New Product Go-Live)
    • Project Management and Business Analysis in Migration Projects
    • Test Coordination, Test Execution, Test Documentation
    • IT Change Management with ServiceNow
    • Management of tasks for migration projects with JIRA (Task Management)
    • Concept validation and testing (technical) for migration projects
    • Database Management (MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server)
    • Job Management (Control-M, PowerShell, SFTP interfaces) to define automated data flows for migrated applications/systems
    • Documentation with Confluence
    • Support for Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
    • IT Asset Ownership – Consulting
    • Management/ordering of rights, servers, and capacity (CPU, Storage)
    • DevOps (CI/CD) with IBM UrbanCode Deploy
    • Management of ORR Controls (Application, Release, Decommission)

    IT Environment: SAP R/3, SAP HANA, GCP Cloud, ServiceNow, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, HP ALM, Control-M, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, Git, BitBucket
  • VTG GmbH
    Agile IT Business Analyst (Project and Requirements Management)
    LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
    August 2022 - March 2024 (1 year and 7 months)
    Topic: Cross-functional Business Analysis for IT Roadmap Projects
    Coaching and consulting regarding:

    • Analysis and design of data management and business processes
    • Documentation of systems, interfaces, and processes
    • Interface between initiatives and Scrum implementation teams regarding requirements
    • Gathering requirements for various initiatives together with the requesters (Story Telling)
    • Documentation of requirements in User Stories according to the INVEST approach
    • Preparation of User Stories for Scrum Teams
    • Consideration and further development of the existing UX/UI concept
    • Presentation of User Stories in Refinements
    • Preliminary acceptance of User Stories after delivery by the Scrum Teams
    • Coordination with IT Portfolio Project Management and Business/IT Architecture
    Selection of IT Projects (Initiatives):

    Confluence, JIRA, MIRO, FIGMA, LeanIX, JAGGAER, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Postman, Zephyr, GitLab, BitBucket, SQL Server, UML, BPMN, Scrum, Kanban, Microservices, SAP S/4 HANA, JAGGAER, Data Formats (JSON, Protobuf, CSV), RabbitMQ, Angular Frontends, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, Microsoft Access, etc.

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Education

  • Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH) (University Degree in Business Informatics)
    University of Bremerhaven
    2007
    Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH)
  • Wholesale and Foreign Trade Clerk (Chamber of Industry and Commerce)
    Arthur Friedrichs Nachf. (Industrial Supplies)
    1999
    Groß- und Außenhandelskaufmann (IHK)

Certifications

  • IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE-FL)
    IREB
    2017
  • Business Analyst (ibo Certificate)
    IBO
    2011

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