Available for freelance and project engagements
Senior Solution Architect in Banking
Architecture profile focused on enterprise architecture, target states, modernization, delivery governance and enterprise integration.
- Enterprise architecture and target operating models
- Application and integration architecture in banking
- Legacy modernization, platform renewal and migration
- Governance, standards, roadmaps and stakeholder alignment
- Delivery oversight from requirements to production
- Security, resilience and enterprise integration

Core competencies
- Banking IT: commercial banking, investment banking, risk management
- Enterprise and solution architecture for complex landscapes
- Java, Spring Boot, microservices and API design
- DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, Maven
- Legacy modernization and mainframe-to-cloud migration
- Docker, Kubernetes, Tomcat, WebSphere, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2
About Sultan Zakir
Senior freelance full-stack Java developer and IT architect with more than 24 years of experience in European banking IT, including UniCredit, HVB and Bank Austria. Focus areas include enterprise architecture, legacy modernization, DevOps automation, cloud-oriented software engineering and full lifecycle delivery.
- UniCredit • HVB • Bank Austria
- Enterprise delivery in regulated environments
- Architecture, development, DevOps and modernization
- Available for freelance consulting and project delivery
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Available for freelance and project roles across architecture, software engineering and banking IT.