Volker Nürnberg
Transformation Coach & Certified Data Vault 2.1 Trainer
Volker Nürnberg is a Transformation Coach, Data Vault Advisor, and Certified Data Vault 2.1 Trainer collaborating with Scalefree, a leading data consulting firm that empowers businesses to harness the full potential of their data.
His claim is “Loving people, loving data.” He is addicted to teaching and coaching people, and he loves watching people grow and succeed. As a result, the company where his protégés work also grows and thrives.
Volker Nürnberg’s Career
“I know where the data comes from.”
With a background in Communications Technology Engineering and extensive ERP and CRM implementation experience, Volker understands operational and IoT data at its source.
His journey into data warehousing began in 2005 within a high-pressure financial trading environment, where he bridged the gap between IT, traders, and risk control.
Since 2016, he has helped organizations across various industries succeed with Data Vault, combining technical excellence with the ability to connect people and business goals.
- 2025: Data Vault 2.1 Trainer Authorization
- 2018: Data Vault 2 Trainer Authorization by Dan Linstedt
- 2016: as of) exclusively Data Vault 2
- 2005: starting DWH career
- 2003: becoming a freelancer
- 2000: Oracle Consulting in eBusiness & CRM
- 1998: (as of) Building a Consulting Team at a Mid-Sized IT Company
- 1990: (as of) University of Duisburg: Communications Technology Engineering (acad. degree „Dipl.-Ing.)
Volker Nürnberg’s Skillset
This career path has allowed him to develop a comprehensive and deep skillset focused on guiding people to build future-proof, automated data ecosystems:
- Interdisciplinary work and learning for decades: Connecting Business & IT as a functional/engineering consultant, an early realization that EVERYTHING in software projects depends on communication, and training in communication and leadership skills.
- DVNLP certified NLP Coach: Recognizing the power of spoken and unspoken words; motivation through inspiration rather than pressure.
- A solid foundation across many industries and technologies: I Banks, Security and Self-Service Devices, Aircraft manufacturer, Steel Mill, Retail, Gas- and Power Trading, Wholesale, traditional RDBMS Systems, Snowflake, Cloudera, WhereScape, Vaultspeed, dbt, Coalesce.
- Very High expertise in the Data Vault Methodology, caring strongly in pace, agility, self-empowerment: Living agile attitudes and ceremonies, understanding the purpose and benefits of distinct roles and rituals. Clearly identifying the drawbacks of falling back into old patterns.
- Coaching on personal and organizational matters: Agile and digital transformation is a matter of paradigm shift, not just about learning new skills. Supporting with experience and coaching skills.
Volker has a strong Vision for future-proof Data Platforms. He firmly believes that the volume and complexity of data to be processed will increase dramatically in the near future. Therefore, his vision is for every step to be driven by metadata, so that data platform engineers no longer have to deal with individual cases.
His vision: In a data catalog, source data points are tagged with their properties, and all extraction, loading, and storage occur without any manual intervention. Business rules are also defined here and implemented fully automatically. And data requirements are defined here and fulfilled fully automatically.
