Legacy mainframe modernization and banking systems integration for financial services
HN Services is a French IT services firm specializing in mainframe systems and banking infrastructure, operating across France, Romania, Portugal, Spain, and Luxembourg since 1983. The tech stack reveals a dual-modernization arc: heavy COBOL, DB2, CICS, and z/OS usage alongside concurrent adoption of Java, Angular, AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes — a pattern consistent with phased legacy migration. Current hiring is engineering-led (65 of 84 roles) with senior-weighted seniority (45 senior vs. 3 junior), signaling either high-churn replacement or complex project staffing for the active core-banking system overhauls and multi-bank IT mergers in the pipeline.
Notable leadership hires: IT Project Director
HN Services delivers IT consulting and systems integration across financial services, insurance, retail, and industrial sectors. The firm operates with 2,300+ employees across five countries and runs HN Institut, an internal training program established in 1989 that has trained over 7,000 candidates in IT roles. Core service areas include mainframe application maintenance, digital transformation, and banking systems migration — reflected in active projects spanning core banking system overhauls, multi-bank IT mergers, and platform consolidations on modern cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure). Pain-point patterns (legacy migration, high-availability challenges, complex integrated IT environments, security/compliance maintenance) align with the customer base of large financial institutions managing decades-old mission-critical systems.
Mainframe-centric (COBOL, DB2, CICS, z/OS) paired with modern platforms: Java, Angular, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, .NET/C#, and banking-specific tools (ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps). Currently adopting additional COBOL tooling.
Core banking system overhaul, multi-bank IT mergers, mainframe application evolution, intranet/internet banking maintenance, and migration to modern platforms (GCP, Kubernetes). Active pain points include legacy migration, high-availability challenges, and compliance maintenance.
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