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Benjamin Peter

Benjamin Peter

Bank Avera Genossenschaft, Head of Data & Business Solutions / CTO

Zug, Switzerland

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Benjamin Peter is the Head of Data & Business Solutions/CTO at Bank Avera since September 2022. He has extensive experience in data science, data engineering and IT, having worked as a Lead Data Scientist at Bank Avera and as a Team Leader in Software Development at Glarner Kantonalbank, and a Senior Application Manager at finnova AG Bankware. He also lectures on Big Data, AI, and Applications Engineering at KV Luzern Berufsakademie. His expertise includes enterprise architecture, solution design, software development as well as leadership in various tech and banking roles.

Benjamin Peter initiated and led the development of the Finnova DWH Framework, now maintained by a dedicated team and used by 18 banks. He also created the EDWH Framework for Glarner Kantonalbank, later sold to Inventx for their Open Finance Platform. Additionally, he developed the Control Engine, a financial reporting tool, and established a pioneering Cloud Data Platform at Bank Avera using Microsoft Azure, which has been adopted as a model by other banks.

He is enthusiastic about technology and loves working with data. His career is fueled by an unwavering drive to seek out new challenges and opportunities, always ready to discover and embrace what lies ahead.

Area of Expertise

  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • SQL Server
  • Azure SQL Database
  • T-SQL
  • SQL Server Integration Services
  • Power Apps
  • Power Platform
  • PowerShell
  • Power Automate
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Data & AI
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Development
  • Data Warehousing
  • Finnova
  • Finance & Banking
  • Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
  • Dataverse
  • Data Engineering
  • Databases

How to modernize your data platform

A small regional bank in Switzerland recognized the importance of data-driven solutions and the benefits of cloud technology. The journey began. From an old, externally controlled on-premise solution as a consumer to a modern data platform from the cloud. Before the copilot hype, the pilot role was taken and a modern platform was built, consisting of Qlik Replicate, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Power BI Premium, Azure Data Factory, Blob Storage, Power Automate, Power Apps, Azure DevOps, among others. A customer story from the idea/problem to the solution.

Benjamin Peter

Bank Avera Genossenschaft, Head of Data & Business Solutions / CTO

Zug, Switzerland

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