KLx is a 700+ person IT services company owned by Crédit Agricole Group, serving 12 partner institutions across banking and insurance. The stack is heavily legacy—Teradata, COBOL, CONTROL-M, Ab Initio—paired with modern containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD (GitLab), suggesting incremental modernization of core banking systems rather than wholesale replacement. Active hiring across ops, finance, and security roles signals ongoing infrastructure and risk-management scaling.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Information Security Officer
KLx operates as the technology delivery arm for Crédit Agricole Group's internal IT needs, staffed by over 700 professionals across 15+ nationalities. Founded in February 2020, the company focuses on solving complex technical challenges in banking and insurance—areas defined by regulatory constraints, high availability requirements, and legacy system dependencies. Current priorities center on operational risk management, information security governance, business continuity, and IT department integration across the group's footprint. Based in Lisbon, the company hires exclusively in Portugal.
Teradata and Ab Initio for data processing; CONTROL-M for job scheduling; COBOL and SQL for core banking logic; Java with Spring Boot and Hibernate for application layers; Kubernetes and Docker for containerization; GitLab CI/CD for deployment; Keycloak and LDAP for identity management.
Operational risk frameworks, crisis management exercises, information security governance and action plans, business continuity planning, IT department integration studies, and strategic roadmap development for Crédit Agricole Group partners.
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