Sports ecosystem platform powering 400M users with multi-cloud infrastructure and data security
Decathlon Digital runs infrastructure for one of sport retail's largest digital ecosystems across GCP and AWS, with Kubernetes, Kafka, and a security-first stack (SAML, OAuth 2.0, SailPoint IdentityIQ). Active hiring in data and security departments, combined with projects around passkey migration (FIDO2), cloud backbone transformation, and data observability, signals a phase of hardening infrastructure and upgrading identity systems—typical of a company scaling from regional to truly global operations.
Decathlon Digital is the technology division of Decathlon, operating the digital platform that connects 400 million customers and users globally while supporting over 101,000 employees. The organization builds software, data, and security infrastructure to serve the sports retail and ecosystem business. Based in Croix, France, with 1,001–5,000 employees, Decathlon Digital spans engineering, data, security, operations, and product teams. Recent hiring acceleration and active projects in cloud connectivity, people analytics, and security observability reflect ongoing investment in scaling the platform and modernizing internal systems.
GCP and AWS for cloud compute, Kubernetes and Serverless for orchestration, Kafka for streaming, Python and Java for application code, SailPoint IdentityIQ for identity and access management, plus networking tools (Juniper, Netbox, Cisco, Fortinet) and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
Key projects include cloud connectivity and backbone network transformation, passkey/FIDO2 migration, data observability platform, people analytics, Workday platform deployment, and SailPoint IdentityIQ optimization—reflecting infrastructure modernization and security hardening.
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