Turkish retail and corporate bank modernizing deposit systems and fraud detection
Akbank is a 75-year-old public bank headquartered in Istanbul with 10,000+ employees, operating retail, commercial, and corporate banking across Turkey and three European subsidiaries. The tech stack reveals dual infrastructure priorities: legacy transaction processing (SQL Server, Pega Customer Decision Hub, Spring Boot microservices) and analytical depth (SAS, Qlik Sense, R, Python). Active hiring velocity in marketing and security alongside microservices modernization of core deposit and accounting systems signals a push toward real-time fraud detection and customer segmentation at scale.
Notable leadership hires: Technology Continuity Lead
Akbank provides consumer banking, SME lending, corporate and private banking services, foreign trade financing, and insurance products. The bank operates through subsidiaries in Germany, the Netherlands, and Dubai, with a branch in Malta. Core infrastructure runs on SQL Server and Pega for customer decisioning, with message-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) supporting transaction processing. Security tooling (Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Nessus, Acunetix, Burp Suite) and EDR deployment indicate mature infosec operations. Current work spans microservices migration of deposit systems, early warning systems for fraud, customer behavior prediction, and pricing and upsell optimization.
SQL, SQL Server, SAS, Qlik Sense, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot, Java, Python, R, NoSQL, Pega Customer Decision Hub, AWS WAF, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point Firewall.
Microservices modernization of deposit and accounting systems, fraud detection and KPI dashboards, early warning systems, customer behavior prediction, pricing optimization, and customer retention and upsell strategies.
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