Available for IT projects

Senior Solution / Enterprise Architect (Banking)

Sultan Zakir

Senior Solution / Enterprise Architect with over 24 years of IT experience, including extensive work in the banking and financial services domain. Strong focus on target architectures, legacy modernisation, system integration, and architecture decision-making in highly regulated environments. Experienced in working with business stakeholders, IT management, and external vendors. Consistent consideration of project, migration, and operational costs as an integral part of architecture decisions in banking environments.

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Solution Architecture Legacy Modernization Target Architectures & Roadmaps Make-or-Buy Decisions Banking Environments Regulatory IT Requirements Legacy Systems & Modernisation IT processes in the banking

Core Competencies

Key areas of focus from the IT and banking sectors

Architecture & Governance

  • Solution & Enterprise Architecture
  • Target Architectures & Roadmaps
  • Make-or-Buy Decisions
  • Architecture Reviews & Decision Papers

Banking & Regulation

  • Banking Environments
  • Regulatory IT Requirements
  • Audit & Compliance Readiness
  • Stability & Resilience

Technology & Integration

  • Legacy Systems & Modernisation
  • Integration & Interface Architectures
  • On-Prem & Hybrid Cloud (conceptual)
  • Security-by-Design

Technology Overview (High-Level)

  • Architectural styles: monolithic to modular, service-oriented architectures
  • Integration: APIs, messaging, batch processing, DevOps
  • Operations: on-premise and hybrid cloud (architectural perspective)
  • Security: principles for regulated IT environments

Language skills

Communication in an international environment

  • German – fluent
  • English – very good
  • Russian – fluent
  • Kazakh – native language
  • Turkish – good
  • Uyghur – good

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