Banking and insurance consulting with infrastructure and data engineering specialization
HIGHFI is a 200+ person French consulting firm built around five practice areas: IT, Digital (DevOps/Agile/Mobile), Business Analysis, Infrastructure & Production, and Big Data/Data Engineering. The stack reflects a hybrid-legacy mandate—Java, Oracle, and Windows Server sit alongside Kubernetes and Docker (both actively adopting), with heavy reliance on Linux, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Hiring remains minimal and senior-skewed, but active projects cluster around data pipeline industrialization, API development, and infrastructure modernization, suggesting internal pressure to move containerized deployments and data platforms forward within client environments.
HIGHFI was founded in 2002 and operates as a managed consulting group for banking, investment, and insurance clients. The group includes four subsidiaries: HIGHFI (core investment banking and digital/data expertise), HIGHSYS (infrastructure and production, established 2016), NS (retail banking and insurance, acquired 2018), and SOFFT (bancassurance and centralized IT systems, acquired 2020). The firm maintains significant relationships with French and international financial institutions, embedding roughly 500 consultants across clients including major banking and insurance groups. The service model emphasizes senior expertise in regulatory compliance, ALM, CRM, and data architecture.
HIGHFI uses Java, Python, SQL, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Angular, React, Vue, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, and Linux across client projects. The firm is actively adopting Docker and Kubernetes for containerization.
Active initiatives include Docker and Kubernetes implementation, data pipeline industrialization, REST API development, API gateway infrastructure, DevOps transition, platform architecture redesign, and infrastructure modernization to address OS and middleware obsolescence.
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