01.07.2021
Erste Digital: Merger creates one of region’s largest IT services companies
Erste Group is merging its IT companies to create one of the largest IT services companies in Austria and the CEE region. s IT Solutions Austria and Erste Group IT International will be merged and operate as Erste Digital as of 1 July 2021. Over 2,000 employees from 49 nationalities will work for Erste Digital in ensuring that Erste Group’s customers continue to benefit from innovative digital solutions that help them handle their banking needs and build prosperity.
“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.