Henning Degn

Engineering leader and principal-level architect with 18+ years of experience leading teams and shaping complex, regulated, multi-domain platforms. Cross functional domain expertise across finance, aviation, and energy / critical infrastructure. Frontier experience in Large Language Models (LLMs), context engineering, RAG, and multi-agent architectures, leading SaaS to AI-Native engineering builds.

Background in previous platform shift focusing on on-premise to cloud transformation. Current work includes architecture for agentic AI workflows and financial analytics capability within a world leading investment management platform, combining financial-domain understanding, natural-language interaction, Text-to-SQL, and contextual insight generation over multi source customer Data Warehouse data. Strong track record in SaaS modernization, architecture governance, data and integration architecture, compliance/security, site reliability engineering, operational readiness, and leading architecture across multiple teams.

Leadership experience hiring, leading and growing high performance and high morale teams. Available for roles in Germany due to personal relocation.

Consultant, Solution Architect, Lead Architect at Vodafone (2014-03 – Present)

cVation / Skaylink, part of Vodafone, is a consulting / development firm specializing in Azure Cloud Native and App Modernization for Azure for businesses.

Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Agentic AI Financial Analytics / Insights Hub at SimCorp (2025-06 – Present)

• Architecting an agentic financial analytics capability within SimCorp's SaaS offering, enabling governed natural-language access to SimCorp Dimension Data Warehouse data through Text-to-SQL generation and contextual financial insight generation for SimCorp One customers with combined assets under management of €1+ trillion.
• Designed continuous deployment of 7 agents utilising 4 data sources (including customers' customised data warehouses) evaluated with 200+ automated test cases with precision above 75% and recall at 94%.
• Accountable for architecture across application, cloud, data, integration, compliance, security, auditability, and operational readiness concerns.
• Driving GenAI agent-based architectures, including orchestration, threat modelling, safe integration patterns, agent evaluations and governance.
• Cross-functional leadership alignment with product, engineering, security, compliance, and financial-domain specialists to translate financial insight use cases into pragmatic architecture and delivery decisions.
• Providing software engineering leadership for SaaS-aligned delivery, helping teams mature governance, production readiness, operability, upgradeability, and traceability of architectural decisions.
• Co-designing and implementing the broader A2A framework for all agents in SimCorp, so far used across 5 repositories and their domain oriented teams.

Data Architect, SimCorp SaaS Transition / Financial Data & Integration at Nykredit (2024-12 – 2025-05)

• Drove customer transition from legacy SimCorp usage toward SimCorp SaaS, focused on financial data, post-trade data, reporting, master data management, and integration.
• Designed the future data platform centered around the Azure Fabric ecosystem and Data as a Product methodology, foundation for Nykredits wealth management organisation, managing €75+ billion in assets.
• As Lead Data Architect, shaped cross-domain architecture across front-office, middle-office, and back-office capabilities, clarifying data flows, integration boundaries, reporting dependencies, ownership responsibilities, and downstream impacts to support scalable and governable data delivery.
• Partnered with business, technical, and domain specialists to translate complex financial requirements into pragmatic data and integration architecture decisions.

Solution Architect, B2B IoT Management, Integrations, Security at Jabra (2024-05 – 2024-11)

• Led solution architecture on Jabra's B2B SaaS Asset Management System, owning core services and integrations for digital twins / IoT management.
• Led Threat Modelling, vulnerability management, and Production Readiness for go live.
• Designed genAI multi-agent architecture, including domain, data, and security boundaries between agents.

Solution Architect, Cloud Architect, IoT Energy / Critical Infrastructure at Next Kraftwerke (2023-07 – 2024-04)

• Provided architectural leadership for a regulated critical infrastructure platform supporting up to 15% of German energy-grid operations, aligning compliance, security, regulatory, and engineering teams around hybrid architecture, migration strategy, production readiness, and operational risk.
• Architected application modernization and migration from Data Center to Azure Cloud in highly regulated critical infrastructure IoT Solution.
• Owning Architecture High Level Design of Virtual WAN networking architecture for all services and Virtual Power Plants / IoT, with emphasis on security posture.

Lead Architect, Architecture Board Lead, Aviation SaaS Modernization at SITA (2014-03 – 2022-06)

• Led architecture across 7 development teams for mission-critical aviation resource-management software used by 200+ airports.
• Owned solution architecture, roadmap, and modernization vision for moving on-premise aviation software toward secure, highly available, containerized SaaS on Azure.
• Led DevOps transformation, reducing possible time-to-market from 6 months to 4 weeks, and enabling new projects to reach production readiness in as little as 1 day.
• Planned and led delivery of multi-tenant cloud-native services in Azure with CI/CD, operational telemetry, and cross-team architecture governance.

Internal technical leadership at cVation (2014-03 – Present)

• Mentoring senior developers and architects, supporting individual growth into specialized technical roles.
• Training new hires in Domain-Driven Design, TDD, clean code, and quality software practices.
• Responsible for technical evaluation of many new consultant hires.
• Presenting technical topics such as DevOps and app/cloud modernization to customers, students, and internal audiences.

Team Lead, Tech Lead, SW Architect at GN Otometrics (2013-08 – 2014-02)

GN Otometrics created hearing measurement hardware and software for hearing aid testing and reporting. Official Title: Senior Software Developer.

• Designed and implemented GN Otometrics' next-gen SW application architecture and development processes, including CI.
• Advised team of 4 architects, primus motor on designing their next-gen architecture and dev processes.
• Led dev team of 3, planned and estimated greenfield "report designer" application, dog-feeding next-gen architecture, delivering project in 6 months.

Tech lead, SW Architect at SITA WorkBridge (2009-01 – 2013-07)

SITA WorkBridge is a development firm, creating Resource Management and Optimization Software for the aviation industry. Official Title: Senior Developer.

• Tech lead designing and developing.Net C# frameworks used by all dev teams.
• Software Architect assisting teams in designing message based 3-tier architecture of core systems in a composite manner.
• Hosted Patterns and Practices events, improving/leading development processes of all teams on topics like CI, design patterns, how to test, (automated UI testing, Test Driven Development).

Developer, Team Lead at CIM Industrial Systems (2005-06 – 2008-12)

CIM Industrial Systems is a consulting firm developing Test and Data Capture Systems / Data Warehousing for the Danish electronic industry. Official Title: Developer.

• Designed and developed Data Warehousing applications for data capture and reporting in.Net C#.
• Led Dev Team of 3.
• Project planning and estimation using Agile development.

Developer at Freelance (2005-01 – 2005-06)

Freelance development in 3D rendering and shader programs.

• Designed and developed.Net composite graphical user interfaces for No-Code Shader graphics program development through use of flow graphs.

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Graphics – DTU - Technical University of Denmark (1999-08 – 2004-12)