Transforming financial companies to operate like a digitally native fintech

We help your teams use modern engineering practices to innovate and adapt quickly, while maintaining high data security and operational integrity.

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Armakuni helps financial services companies manage complex regulations and market changes while improving system reliability and customer trust. 

We support quick adaptation to market shifts with modern cloud native practices that lead to faster software delivery and lower operational risks. 

Typical outcome includes

Faster product launches

The AK Way speeds up deployment, allowing your financial solutions to reach customers quickly and stay ahead of competitors. This approach reduces environment lead times from days to minutes.

Enhanced software quality

Using practices like everything-as-code and automated testing, we reduce bugs and improve application stability, helping meet regulatory standards and build client trust.

Future-proofing capabilities

Cloud native and DevOps practices enhance scalability and resilience, helping manage more transactions and adapt to new tech. This ensures high-velocity, regulation-compliant solutions.

Clear operational visibility

Our data-driven approach provides insights into team performance and operational issues, supporting decision-making and cost management to improve financial operations.

Armakuni’s extensive experience in financial services

Armakuni has over ten years of experience with top financial platforms like JP Morgan Chase, Santander, Fidelity International, and NatWest Group. We help clients set up automated on-prem environments using modern methods like everything as code and fully pipelined testing.

Our ‘Engineering Way’ transforms tech teams from traditional methods to continuous delivery. This speeds up software delivery, cuts environment lead times, and most importantly meeting high security and compliance standards.

What we do

As your strategic partner, Armakuni empowers financial teams to achieve excellence and agility.

Building a DevOps center of excellence

Building a DevOps center of excellence

We establish a DevOps Center of Excellence, fostering collaboration and innovation across your teams, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery within your financial systems.

Accelerating market response

Accelerating market response

By using The AK Way and data-driven metrics, we speed up release cycles, helping you quickly adapt to market changes with modern engineering methods.

Securing and scaling financial systems

Securing and scaling financial systems

We help your teams implement cloud native practices that enhance system scalability and reliability, while ensuring compliance with stringent security standards, safeguarding your financial operations.

Elevating platform engineering

Elevating platform engineering

We enhance your platform engineering capabilities by implementing the AK Way, driving automation, scalability, and resilience, while ensuring your financial systems are always optimised for performance.

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Our case studies

See how Armakuni Way has benefited these organisations

Embedded cloud-native practices across 20 cohorts and 400 engineers

Accelerated delivery of high-quality products with fewer flaws

Santander

High-Velocity Cloud-Native Engineering Workforce Transformation

Santander’s engineering teams transformed through the 'Engineering Way' into a high-velocity cloud-native force. Empowering rapid delivery of high-quality products with continuous & automated testing, increased innovation, and reduced risk.

Defined standards for high-velocity software delivery

Continuous testing to discard ideas faster

40%

Reduction in time-to-market

50%

Reduction in infrastructure costs

Fnality

Scalable Blockchain Payments Platform with Enhanced DevOps

Fnality’s blockchain payments platform underwent significant transformation by integrating cloud-native solutions and agile practices. This evolution resulted in high-quality outcomes and accelerated feature delivery.

30%

Improvement in code quality

Enhanced DevOps practices and cloud-native infrastructure

Everything as code, automation, TDD, fully pipelined

60 Seconds

Reduced VM creation time from thirty minutes

Fidelity International

Infrastructure Engineering & Cultural Transformation

Developed a platform to fully automate previously laborious, error prone and manual processes. Used modern platform engineering methods - everything as code, automation, TDD, fully pipelined and automated environment provision and testing, etc.

Fully automate previously laborious, error prone and manual process

Reduced environment lead time from 4 days

30 Minutes

Baseline metrics improve team efficiency by 60%

Implemented DORA and Quality metrics

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Baselining elite practices with enterprise-wide Continuous Delivery and Metrics driven development

Adopting a metric-driven approach to engineering and a culture of continuous learning at JP Morgan Chase. This enables high-impact changes with speed and quality improvements across teams.

Agile best practices

Improvement framework for prioritising and enhancing practices

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Trained Product Owners

Strengthened team collaboration and stakeholder engagement

Canada Life

Upskilling Product Owners for Product-Centric Transformation

In 12 weeks, Canada Life shifted to a product-centric approach by training 7 Product Owners, empowering them to enhance product adoption. Improved systems and practices boosted delivery speed, quality, and innovation, while cutting costs.

Improved adoption of best practices and resources

Project-centric to product-centric cultural transformation

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How is Armakuni different?

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We show people what good looks like (because we have experienced it, many times). We put metrics on the landscape to help understand where we need to focus and demonstrate the change. We enable your people to deliver the change, through coaching and pair programming. Success for us is stepping back out of a modern cloud native engineering/technology/digital function.

What is Armakuni Way?

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The AK way is a collection of approaches for “delivery with engineering agility” that we have used for many years as a baseline when we are engaging with clients. It’s not meant to be a fixed approach model, nor is it the only way we work - as we all know, operating in the world of software is about adaptation and pragmatism - but these approaches have served us well across a range of industries, projects and engagements, and are constantly evolving. If the client/team/dept we are working with doesn’t have a practice in place for any of these practices, then we have something to fall back on.

What is Armakuni Insights?

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Many of our clients do not have the insights to help them really see what is going on within technology. A technology practice within an organisation is a function of its people, teams, organisational structures, leadership, technical direction and strategic direction. No 2 organisations are the same, and their ability to perform is dependant on so many intangible factors. We’ve created a series of exercises based on industry best practices to help you better articulate the true state of your team. By using a combination of quantitative, data-driven metrics, as well as qualitative insights, we provide your teams with a sense of their strengths and areas for improvement.

How will you work with us?

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Most of our engagements with clients are about helping them change how they deliver technology, whether helping with the adoption of scalable microservices, or building self serve infrastructure platforms. However, in the most part we are helping our clients adopt the mindset, practices and approaches that will enable this approach beyond our time onsite - modern, cloud native engineering practices. Alongside this, we enable the change of the technology function as a whole (structurally) and how the technology function interacts with the rest of the business - whether that’s with business functions, governance, audit/security and others. Below is a “typical” engagement model, but our approaches and modular/productised and so we often just do one part of this. Step 1 - Understand the landscape/topography In order to work with a client, we need to understand what is going on in their organisation, with an external focus/viewpoint. Step 2 - Start to plan the roadmap Once we have a view on where the organisation is at, we start to work with leadership on where they are trying to get to, aligning to the organisation strategy and/or the engineering/technology strategy, and build out a roadmap. Step 3 - Educate In an ideal world, the entirety of the (technology) organisation understands what we are trying to achieve. Typically we find that there is a lot of “unconscious incompetence” - ie people don’t know what the don’t know - so we run sessions/workshops to demonstrate hands on what good looks like. This aligns the whole organisation to the approaches and mindset that we are trying to distil into the teams - and “should” create a sense of desire around that end goal. Step 4 - Start to drive change This can take many forms, but all are based around coaching individuals or teams through the change. Example: An Engineering Accelerator: we embed a pair of experienced practitioners into a team to coach and pair (rotating round your team) for 3 months, shaping that team into a modern cloud native engineering mindset and ensuring that the practices are embedded and desired by the team, not a chore. Step 5 - Observe, Orientate, Decide, Act Constant observation, sensing of what is working, what is not, learning and adapting as we go.

How do you measure business outcomes?

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At a technology/implementation level, Armakuni uses the Dora research and metrics, based on over 12 years of surveys, research and data collation, to benchmark and guide technology performance metrics to business outcomes. We combine this with our Engineering Insights which helps us look at broader environmental metrics - capabilities, approaches, psychological safety, cognitive load - all significant factors in a function's ability to respond to business/organisational needs. At a more holistic/contextual level, we identify the symptoms/issues that the broader business is experiencing and tie these back to the metrics we gather so we can demonstrate change over time.

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Growth Street

We are a small team and we want to keep our software engineers focused on product development. With AK we were able to ring fence the whole project and hand it over. Although the problem required a bespoke solution it didn’t feel difficult. The whole platform was designed, built, and managed with minimum input required from us

Greg Hinch
Greg Hinch

Head of Product, Growth Street

Daisie

Armakuni exemplify best practice. Our team is more confident, more effective and more knowledgeable thanks to our engagement with them.

Chris Bond
Chris Bond

Head of Engineering, Daisie

News UK

Armakuni made a significant impact. While they improved team productivity and quality, what stood out was their in-depth assessment of our engineering capability. Their report highlighted key risks we hadn't identified and guided our strategic decisions for years.

Armakuni is a professional and skilled consultancy in a field crowded with less reliable players.

Christina Scott
Christina Scott

CIO, News UK

Comic Relief

When I was COO of Comic Relief, I faced significant technology challenges, including outdated donation processes. I commissioned Armakuni to build a state-of-the-art donation platform, and they exceeded expectations. Delivered on time and within budget, the platform contributed to Comic Relief surpassing £100m in donations for the first time. Their work remains vital to this day.

I highly recommend Armakuni.

Derek Gannon
Derek Gannon

COO, Comic Relief

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