Community bank modernizing core systems and risk infrastructure on Azure
Washington Trust is a 220-year-old regional bank with 501–1,000 employees across Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, operating commercial, mortgage, personal, and wealth management lines. The tech stack is Microsoft-native (Azure, SQL Server, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric) with governance tooling (GitHub Copilot, REST/SOAP/JSON) — typical of a bank modernizing compliance and analytics infrastructure. Hiring momentum is concentrated in finance and sales roles, while active projects span fraud prevention, digital wallet integration, and credit policy automation, indicating a push to scale loan origination and card adoption alongside regulatory tightening.
Washington Trust is a publicly traded community bank (NASDAQ: WASH) founded in 1800, making it the oldest in the nation. The company serves individuals and businesses across the Northeast through offices in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, offering commercial banking, mortgages, wealth management, trust services, and cash management. Washington Trust is FDIC-insured and an SBA Preferred Lender. Current operational priorities include growing the loan portfolio, increasing card adoption, automating compliance and reporting workflows, and strengthening fraud detection and risk mitigation across the institution.
Microsoft Azure ecosystem (Data Services, SQL, Functions, App Service, Entra ID, Fabric) plus SQL Server, Power BI for analytics, Python for modeling, GitHub Copilot for development, and standard financial integration protocols (REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, OAuth 2.0, JWT). No cloud migration or adopting/replacing signals in current data.
Westerly, Rhode Island. The bank operates offices across Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts and is currently hiring across the United States.
Current projects include fraud prevention initiatives, digital wallet integration, continuous assurance monitoring, secure system integrations for core banking, credit policy and scorecard development, building analytics dashboards, risk mitigation programs, and campaigns to drive card adoption among existing customer bases.
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