Batiste Nikolai Erdmann
Senior Business Analyst / Project Lead
Experience
Senior Business Analyst / Project Lead – Client Project
Tech11 GmbH
- Multi-client and product environment in the insurance software domain. Responsible for a dedicated client project within a complex, modular system landscape.
- Business project responsibility for one client project (1 out of 11 parallel client projects)
- End-to-end responsibility for requirements across multiple systems and interfaces
- Insurance domain analysis (policies, claims, products, contracts)
- Requirements analysis including acceptance criteria (Given/When/Then)
- Impact and dependency analysis in multi-system landscapes
- Facilitating workshops, refinements, and solution alignments
- Collaboration with development teams (close to APIs, without own development)
- Support for tests, releases, and quality assurance
Lead Senior Business Analyst / Subproject Lead – Material Recording System
Brockmann & Büchner
- Setup of a central, cross-system material and master data recording system to harmonize existing processes and applications.
- Business team responsibility as Lead Business Analyst
- Subproject lead in client IT development project
- End-to-end process responsibility across multiple systems
- Strategic development of the solution and representation to management
- Mentoring and professional training of new Business Analysts
- Interim roles as Scrum Master and Product Owner
Business Analyst / Requirements Engineering – Insurance Software
CBTW (formerly ITF)
- Project for digitalizing and continuously improving existing insurance software, taking into account regulatory requirements.
- Conducting business and technical requirements analyses
- Modeling processes and business logic
- Writing, managing and accepting user stories
- Test design, execution, and functional acceptance
- Maintaining technical and business documentation
- Collaboration with development in distributed teams
Business Analyst – Digitalization of Training & Professional Documents
CGI Deutschland
- Digitalizing and standardizing training and professional documents for nationwide use.
- Converting documents between AsciiDoc, Word, and HTML formats
- Revising structure, clarity, and consistency
- Creating workflow and process diagrams
- Supporting solution implementation and coordinating with business units
Business Analyst – Cash Services Process Harmonization
CGI Deutschland
- Project to harmonize and consolidate cross-departmental cash services processes.
- Process modeling with Camunda and Draw.io
- Maintaining and organizing internal Confluence pages
- Supporting meeting preparation and follow-up
- Creating decision and working documents
Business Analyst – HR Process Redesign
CGI Deutschland
- Internal project for redesigning and digitizing HR processes and internal tools.
- Creating functional specification documents
- Developing use cases and user stories
- Modeling workflows and process diagrams
- Developing solution proposals and supporting implementation
Business Analyst / PMO – Mergers & Acquisitions Project
CGI Deutschland
- Banking project in the context of mergers & acquisitions, focusing on project management, transparency, and documentation.
- Tracking milestones, risks, and issues
- Creating and aligning weekly status reports
- Coordinating and documenting meetings
- Supporting project managers with ad-hoc tasks
- Documenting test requirements
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (4 years), Insurance (2.5 years), and Banking and Finance (1 year).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (5.5 years), Project Management (3 years), Quality Assurance (2.5 years), Human Resources (2 years), and Product Development (1.5 years).
Summary
Senior Business Analyst with many years of experience in analyzing, designing and managing complex IT and digitalization projects across various industries, including insurance, banking & finance, public sector, and mobility & transportation. Particular strength in translating business requirements into clear, robust and implementable technical solutions in a structured way and taking end-to-end responsibility across multiple systems and interfaces. Skilled in impact and dependency analysis, creating reliable decision-making foundations, and coordinating stakeholders at business, IT and management levels. Valued for clear communication, analytical depth and confident collaboration with distributed, interdisciplinary teams. Experience in technical leadership, project management and agile roles.
Skills
Methods & Concepts:
- Agile Development (Scrum, Kanban, Safe)
- Prince2
- Ireb
- Bpmn
- Uml
- Use Cases
- User Stories
- Process Modeling
- Requirements Engineering
- Acceptance Criteria
- Definition Of Ready / Definition Of Done
- End-to-end Process Responsibility
- Stakeholder & Interface Management
- Impact & Dependency Analysis
- Test Management
- Quality Assurance & Acceptance Processes
- Release & Rollout Management
Tools & Technologies:
- Jira (Workflow Design, Ticket & Backlog Structuring)
- Confluence (Knowledge Architecture & Documentation Concepts)
- Camunda
- Ms Office
- Draw.io
- Lucidchart
- Miro
- Sql
- Jasp
- R / R-studio
- Visual Studio Code
- Github
- Sourcetree
- Git-based Version Control
- Staging, Release & Deployment Processes
- Data Migrations
- Import/export Processes
Languages
Education
Provadis University
Master of Science, focus on Business Informatics (dual with CGI) · Management & Technology · Frankfurt, Germany · 1.3
European University Viadrina
Bachelor of Science, program taught in English · International Business Administration · Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Kanban System Design
Pspo I – Professional Scrum Product Owner
SQL Masterclass
BPMN Process Modeling
IREB Foundation
PRINCE2 Foundation
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