BEC Financial Technologies operates the core transaction, lending, and investment systems for one in four Danish banks, with 1,700+ engineers and data specialists across Denmark and Poland. The tech stack reveals a dual-layer architecture: legacy COBOL/CICS/DB2 backbone handling production banking flows, layered with modern Java/Spring/Kubernetes infrastructure for cloud migration. Active replacement of Java and adoption of Databricks signals an aggressive data-platform modernization, paralleled by heavy hiring in engineering and data roles — pointing to simultaneous legacy system maintenance and greenfield platform buildout.
BEC Financial Technologies provides financial IT solutions that power retail banking operations for Danish institutions representing 25% of the country's bank customer base. The product suite covers deposit-taking, lending origination, and wealth management capabilities — essentially the full operational toolkit a retail bank requires. The company runs a 1,700-person engineering and operations organization split between Danish and Polish offices, serving both traditional on-premise deployments and increasingly cloud-hosted environments. Current work spans modernization of liquidity-management systems, migration to cloud infrastructure, compliance automation, and a next-generation digital banking platform, while maintaining legacy COBOL systems that continue to process production transactions.
Legacy: COBOL, CICS, DB2. Modern: Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, OpenShift. Data: Kafka, Apache Spark, SQL Server, Databricks (adopting). Ops: Terraform, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub, ServiceNow.
Modernizing liquidity-management systems, migrating legacy Java applications to cloud (OpenShift/Kubernetes), implementing data governance and transformation pipelines, launching Digital Bank 2.0, and transitioning the data warehouse to Databricks.
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