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Jürgen Röck

Interim CTO

€1,000/day
Regensburg, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Jürgen

Are you looking for someone who not only plans complex IT and product projects but also reliably brings them to completion – from the initial idea to rollout? That has been my driving force for over 25 years.

It all started at 14 when I got into IT out of pure curiosity. What fascinated me then still drives me today: the question of how to solve a problem really well – cleanly, thoughtfully, and in a way that the solution will still hold up tomorrow. This passion has led to a career as CTO, CEO, and Program Lead, with 17 years of experience in the USA and projects at BMW, Audi/VW/Porsche, MAN, Samsung, Wells Fargo, and in regulated banking and insurance environments.

My added value for you: I take responsibility for demanding transformations, product developments, and rollouts – with C-level communication skills, technically deep enough to contribute ideas, and structured enough to get large, distributed teams (up to 150 people, on- and nearshore) to deliver.

What makes me special: I love teamwork – facilitating workshops, resolving escalations, jointly striving for the best solution. But I also enjoy working concentratedly in my "quiet room" to truly think through architectures, concepts, and strategies. This mix of team player and tinkerer is my recipe for success.

Typical engagements I undertake:

  • Interim CTO / CEO and technical program/project management
  • Product and platform development (B2C and B2B), MVP to scaling
  • Legacy transformation, cloud migration, and rollout management
  • Building development centers, DevOps, and nearshore teams
  • Compliance & Certification (ISO 27001/27017/27018, DORA, GDPR)
  • Business analysis, process optimization, and change management

Let's talk – I look forward to advancing your project.
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Regensburg (up to 50km)

Experience

  • NOVAT GmbH
    Interim CTO
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    January 2025 - January 2026 (1 year)
    Weiden, Germany
    • Building a scalable, multi-stage development center including organizational, process, and system design
    • Introduction of structured development and operating processes (JIRA/Confluence, ticket & incident management)
    • Management and negotiation of nearshore partners, building a distributed team of 20+ people
    • Conception of product architecture and feature and component consulting
    • End-to-end implementation of ISO 27001/27017/27018 certifications
    • Establishment of stakeholder reporting, escalation management, and management-level change initiatives
    • Result: functional development center, agile working methods established, project volume €1.5 million
    Project Management Product Management Interim Management
  • Finductive Ltd. Malta / Luna-Medical GmbH
    Interim CTO
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2023 - January 2025 (2 years)
    Birkirkara, Malta
    • Overall management of the transformation of a legacy banking system to a cloud core banking platform (Temenos)
    • Customer volume: 1,500 business customers, €500 million transaction volume
    • Building a new IT DevOps team including recruiting all roles (CTO, InfoSec, DevOps, System Admins)
    • Contract negotiation and management with nearshore service providers and software suppliers
    • Implementation of BCP, GDPR, and Data Privacy compliance; ISO 27001/27017/27018; DORA gap analysis
    • Support of IT and security audits by the Maltese Ministry of Finance as well as KPMG and BDO
    • Moderation of all agile ceremonies, backlog prioritization, escalation and stakeholder management
    • Result: successful platform migration; team of 65 people, project volume €5 million
    Interim Management Project Management Product Management
  • Proof of Concept Software-Logistik E/E-System 2029
    Technology Expert and Partial Project Manager
    January 2023 - May 2023 (4 months)
    München, Germany
    • Conception and design development of a catalog of requirements and a requirements specification for control units and control unit management and software logistics – for all vehicle classes for 2029 and the future
    • Creation of presentations and documents for various stakeholder meetings and workshops
    • Moderation of workshops and design studies
    • Stakeholder management, project transparency, and status reporting at team and management levels
    • Team size: 15 people (onshore) / Project capital volume: €1.2 million

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