Core banking platform serving 2M+ Danes with 86M daily transactions
Bankdata operates Denmark's backbone financial software, processing a million logins and 86 million transactions daily across retail and corporate banking. The stack reveals a deliberate dual-track engineering strategy: mainframe-anchored (COBOL, DB2, z/OS, CICS) running legacy workflows alongside cloud-native layers (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Java, Quarkus, ArgoCD). Active adoption of Microsoft Power Platform signals a modernization push into low-code tooling, while hiring velocity accelerates across 29 engineering roles—mostly senior, focused on antifraud, event-driven integration, and monitoring—indicating pressure to reduce technical debt and vendor fragmentation without destabilizing mission-critical systems.
Bankdata is a privately held financial software company founded in 1966 and based in Fredericia, Denmark. The platform underpins banking for one in three Danish citizens (approximately 2 million individuals), 200,000 businesses, and thousands of bank employees. The company processes 86 million transactions daily through core systems that handle payment flows, wealth management, and retail banking. Bankdata operates as critical financial infrastructure for the Danish banking sector, managing security, compliance, and availability constraints that affect millions of end users. The organization employs 501–1,000 people and hires exclusively in Denmark.
Bankdata runs Java, Quarkus, and TypeScript on OpenShift and AWS, with Kubernetes orchestration and ArgoCD for deployment. Legacy systems use IBM z/OS, COBOL, DB2, and CICS. Monitoring via Grafana and OpenTelemetry. They are adopting Microsoft Power Platform.
Key projects include antifraud platform development, enterprise-grade solutions for mobile banking and CRM, event-driven architecture integration, monitoring and alerting expansion, and modernization of legacy mainframe systems and vendor management functions.
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