Wholesale agricultural lender modernizing legacy banking infrastructure
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank is a $48 billion wholesale lender to the Farm Credit system, operating across 15 states and Puerto Rico. The tech stack reveals a mid-modernization transition: core banking runs on nCino and Salesforce, data pipelines use Spark/Kafka/Airflow/Snowflake, and ML models leverage TensorFlow and scikit-learn, yet they're still replacing Dynamics 365 and managing Microsoft Access alongside cloud infrastructure. The hiring mix—finance-heavy with growing engineering and product teams—reflects a push to modernize loan origination workflows and real-time data exchange, areas flagged as active pain points.
Notable leadership hires: Cash Services Director
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank is the wholesale funding and technology backbone of the Farm Credit system, providing capital, infrastructure, and support services to local agricultural and rural lenders. Founded in 1916, the cooperative operates as a $48 billion institution with 201–500 employees based in Columbia, South Carolina. They serve agricultural operations of all sizes and rural home/land buyers across 15 states and Puerto Rico. Core business lines include wholesale lending, correspondent banking, and technology and compliance services to member institutions. Current operational focus spans loan origination modernization, counterparty risk assessment, and enterprise-wide adoption of agile delivery processes.
Core systems include nCino, Salesforce, SharePoint, and .NET/SQL Server on-premises. Cloud infrastructure spans AWS and Azure. Data platforms use Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, and BigQuery. ML models run on TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn. They're retiring Dynamics 365.
Columbia, South Carolina. All current hiring is in the United States.
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