Latin America's largest bank modernizing legacy systems with cloud and data mesh
Itaú Unibanco is the largest bank in Latin America, operating a complex tech estate spanning mainframe systems (JBoss, WebSphere, Oracle Cloud) alongside modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure). The hiring velocity is accelerating with heavy recruitment in sales (111 roles) and engineering (110 roles), while active adoption of Terraform and Data Mesh signals infrastructure-as-code maturity and a shift toward decentralized data ownership — both required to support the digital transformation and cloud optimization initiatives appearing across their project backlog.
Itaú Unibanco is a privately held banking institution headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, and the largest bank in Latin America. The organization operates across retail, corporate, and institutional banking segments, serving millions of customers across Brazil and the region. Their current operational focus spans digital transformation of cash management services, credit risk modernization, legacy system migration, and expansion of corporate banking segments. The engineering and data organizations are actively scaling, with projects ranging from observability platforms and data pipelines to generative AI applications and conversational agents, indicating a multi-year infrastructure and analytics modernization effort.
Itaú uses Tableau, SQL, Python, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Java, .NET, Kotlin, Swift, React, Angular, AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Linux. They are actively adopting Terraform, Data Mesh, and expanding AWS/Azure cloud footprint while operating legacy systems on JBoss and WebSphere.
Active projects include data pipelines, genAI platform, conversational AI agents, data catalog implementation, observability and traceability systems, and digital transformation of cash management services.
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