A private equity-backed global payment provider unlocked long-term value through a unified infrastructure.
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, banks, payment providers, and PE-backed firms can’t afford downtime, stalled transformation, or spiralling infrastructure costs.
This was the challenge facing a fast-growing, PE-owned payments provider formed through multiple acquisitions. The merger of five companies left the organisation with a fragmented infrastructure, uneven maturity levels, and systems so unreliable that even basic data centre mismanagement led to outages.
But the technical hurdles were only part of the story. Human barriers, such as siloed teams after redundancies, defensive cultures, and a shortage of expertise, further slowed delivery. The result was mounting costs, including a significant annual spend just on logging.
We stepped in to help the firm modernise its fragmented infrastructure, moving from legacy data centres to Kubernetes. This transformation was critical to enabling agility, scalability, and resilience across the newly merged organisation, turning a patchwork of systems into a platform built for growth.
When Albany Beck came on board, the key obstacle to the client’s migration vision was a lack of knowledge and expertise. Development teams were inexperienced with Kubernetes, and their delivery partner failed to keep pace with the standards expected.
At such a critical point in the organisation’s evolution, there was a clear need for coordination across all migration efforts, appropriate technical decision-making, alignment of development teams and executives, and effective management of delivery partners.
With deep expertise and insights into technical leadership and delivery direction, Albany Beck’s consultants stepped in to deliver on these ambitions.
To ensure quality wasn’t compromised in its move to Kubernetes, our consultants carried out a thorough assessment with all parties. This was the first step towards unifying systems and teams while enabling scalable payment platforms.
Albany Beck’s review focused on five core phases:
Throughout this process, our consultants acted as a bridge between teams, combining Kubernetes expertise with project management and stakeholder skills.
The key to embedding this plan lay in developing trust to establish cross-functional collaboration. Our consultants worked directly with siloed teams and developers to help secure their buy-in to Kubernetes, ensuring they understood its capabilities in efficient resource allocation.
From here, we documented architecture diagrams, and created the first executable migration plan. Taking a proactive approach, we were able to coordinate directly with developers to schedule execution phases and eliminate future bottlenecks. This also helped establish feasibility and continuity in the migration timeline.
Before working with Albany Beck, the organisation had no realistic plan. Thanks to our diligent approach, teams became more engaged, processes were streamlined, and a clear methodology was established for future migration.
The organisation benefited from:
All of which brought much-needed clarity and momentum to future scalability efforts.
While migration is still ongoing, downtime has been eliminated, costs are now controlled, and resilience has been built back into the organisation from the top down – proving that even the most siloed structures and systems can be successfully transformed.
If you’d like to accelerate your infrastructure migration or transformation projects, we’d be happy to explore how we can support.
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