“Erste Digital is the Core team essential to driving Erste Group’s widely-recognized digital offerings, including our banking platform George,” said David O´Mahony, COO of Erste Group and chairman of Erste Digital’s supervisory board. “Customers will benefit from the reliability, focused delivery and innovation that our new group-wide set-up for IT solutions provides.”

Ensuring digital delivery excellence for 16 million customers

Erste Digital is responsible for developing, implementing and running the IT solutions used by Erste Group’s over 16 million customers. The core customer-facing business solutions that Erste Digital enables span across the retail, SME, and corporates & markets segments and include George, the digital financial companion used by more than 6.5 million people.

“Digital culture for me is how technology shapes the way that we interact as humans. It’s how we behave, how we think and how we communicate. By uniting our group’s IT skills and expertise, Erste Digital will contribute to keeping Erste Group at the very forefront of digital banking,” said Dietmar Böckmann, CEO of Erste Digital.

Future-focused jobs at an attractive employer

Erste Digital is headquartered in newly-constructed tower offices adjacent to Erste Campus and Vienna’s main train station. The large majority of its IT experts are based in Vienna and Bratislava, but Erste Digital also has offices in Innsbruck and Prague. Erste Digital offers a very broad range of job profiles that reflect the integral role that digital excellence plays in banking these days. The firm’s specialists excel in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud engineering and data operations and analysis, as well as in the development of front end and back end solutions. Its project managers, agility coaches and scrum masters help provide the coordination that ensures effective delivery.

Erste Digital is also committed to advancing the standing of women in IT: 24% of Erste Digital’s overall staff is female and women hold one in six of the IT services company’s leadership positions. Management are focused on improving this as a priority.

Erste Digital’s roots date back over 50 years to the founding of SPARDAT in 1968 to run the data processing service center of the Austrian Savings Banks.

www.erstedigital.com