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Merve I.MI

Merve I.

Senior Technical Project Manager|Business Analyst

€850/day
Berlin, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Merve

Senior Technical Project Manager with 15+ years of experience across software engineering, fintech, and investment management. I specialize in delivering complex IT and digital transformation projects in regulated environments, working closely with cross-functional teams, engineering departments, and external vendors.

My background combines hands-on software development experience with senior project leadership in the financial services industry. I have successfully led large-scale initiatives involving trading systems, payment platforms, and banking infrastructure while ensuring strict compliance with regulatory, security, and audit requirements.

Currently based in Berlin, I support organizations in driving end-to-end project delivery — from requirements definition and technical analysis to stakeholder alignment, implementation, and production rollout.

I bring strong expertise in:

• Technical Project & Delivery Management
• Agile / Scrum project environments
• Fintech, investment management and trading platforms
• Vendor and outsourcing oversight
• Stakeholder management across business and engineering teams
• Regulatory and security-sensitive IT environments
• Product requirements, functional analysis and UAT coordination

With a background as a software engineer and business analyst, I act as a strong bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders. I am particularly effective in complex environments where technology, product strategy and operational processes intersect.

I am available for freelance Technical Project Manager, Delivery Manager or Transformation projects and can support both international and Berlin-based teams.
  • Turkish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Conversational

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

Experience

  • Scalable Capital
    Senior IT Project Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    August 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Leadership: Leading complex IT projects involving cross-functional teams, third party vendors, and stakeholders, ensuring compliance with strict security, regulatory, and audit requirements.
    Project Management Change Management Digital Transformation
  • Vanguard
    Senior Project Manager
    March 2021 - June 2024 (3 years and 3 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Operational Efficiency: Overseeing the end-to-end trading and settlement flow including payments, taxes and corporate actions ensuring strict compliance with the best execution policy and the associated investment guidelines.

    Product Oversight: Managing third-party providers and their applications, aligning them with organizational objectives and product roadmaps.

    Technical Counterpart: Acting as the IT team's primary point of contact, addressing and resolving technical issues within the system.

    Leadership: Training Vanguard staff, building their investment acumen and facilitating learning sessions on securities trading/settlement oversight, and rebalancing strategies for retail client portfolios.
    Technical project management Product management Project Management
  • Lloyds Bank GmbH
    Senior Business Analyst
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    April 2018 - February 2021 (2 years and 10 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Leadership: Headed the Brexit project with strategic vision and cross-functional team coordination. Technical Documentation: Authored comprehensive functional and technical analysis documents.

    Product Development: Crafted detailed use and test cases, ensuring product requirements were accurately captured and tested.

    Quality Assurance: Played a pivotal role in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring high product quality and user satisfaction through rigorous quality assurance measures.
    Business analysis Digital Transformation Atlassian JIRA Scrum

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Education

  • Master of Science
    Bogazici University
    2016
    Engineering and Technology Management
  • Bachelor of Science
    Middle East Technical University
    2011
    Computer Engineering

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