Digital banking infrastructure for Erste Group's 16M+ customers across Central Europe
Erste Digital operates as the engineering backbone of Erste Group, a regional banking institution serving over 16 million customers across Central Europe. The tech stack—Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, plus legacy DB2 and Adabas—reflects a dual-layer operation: modern cloud-native services layered over maintained mainframe systems. Active projects prioritize mainframe-to-cloud integration and workflow modernization (adopting Pega), while pain points cluster around legacy infrastructure constraints and developer velocity, suggesting the organization is mid-transformation from datacenter-dependent operations toward distributed cloud architecture.
Erste Digital is the technology division of Erste Group, employing over 2,300 IT professionals across engineering, infrastructure, and operations. The company operates in a regulated banking context serving CEE markets (Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, and beyond), managing digital systems for over 16 million end customers. Core workload areas include mainframe modernization, cloud platform adoption (AWS, Azure, GCP), security segmentation, enterprise communication infrastructure (Office 365 rollouts), and workflow automation. Hiring is concentrated in engineering and senior technical roles, with recent focus on Austria and Slovakia.
Erste Digital operates Python, Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, DB2, Adabas, Java, Android/Kotlin, Cisco ACI/Nexus, Checkpoint, F5 BIG-IP, Jira, ServiceNow, Camunda, and SQL. They are adopting Pega for workflow management.
Active projects include mainframe-to-cloud architecture integration, security segmentation automation, enterprise Office 365 deployment, loadbalancer integration, workflow platform transformation (Pega adoption), cloud datacenter network integration, and performance tuning of legacy applications.
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