CSI
Core banking processing for community banks
Application Architect 1
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
- Seven to ten years of software development experience is required.
- Strong understanding of application design patterns, architectural best practices, and integration approaches is required.
- Proficiency in major programming languages, development frameworks, and modern application stacks is required.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL database design, performance tuning, and data modeling is required.
- Familiarity with user experience considerations and their influence on application design is required.
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills are required.
- Ability to balance technical constraints with business requirements and user needs is required.
- Design architecture for individual applications or application suites, ensuring alignment with functional and non-functional requirements.
- Develop technical specifications, design documents, and application models.
- Ensure application architectures adhere to enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, and security guidelines.
- Provide technical guidance to development teams throughout the application lifecycle.
- Collaborate with solution and enterprise architects to ensure appropriate integration with other systems, services, and data sources.
- Conduct performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability reviews for assigned applications.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools relevant to application development.
- Mentor developers on design principles, coding best practices, and architectural patterns.
- A master's degree is preferred.
About the company
CSI provides core processing technology for community banks, acting as the backbone that runs customer accounts, deposits, loans, and regulatory reporting. It does this through an integrated platform that processes transactions, stores data, and generates compliance and management reports, typically delivered with strong customer support and can be hosted on-site or in managed environments. It stands out through a long track record, dependable service, deep industry know-how, and close relationships with regional banks rather than flashy product features. Its goal under private equity ownership is to accelerate product innovation and expand services to help more community banks modernize operations while preserving reliable core processing.
Company Size
N/A
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
Paducah, Kentucky
Founded
1965
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Forte Bank chose CSI in April 2026, validating new-logo momentum.
- CSI’s CashPlease surpassed 1 million loans on August 6, 2026, showing distribution strength.
- Carefull and AI fraud tools address elder-fraud demand and deepen stickiness with bank clients.
What critics are saying
- Customer Intelligence Suite stays in pilot until Q4 2026, delaying revenue conversion.
- Qolo and Apiture integrations create execution risk across payments, digital banking, and core workflows.
- Fiserv, FIS, and Jack Henry pressure CSI’s community-bank wedge; losing conversions undermines the franchise.
What makes CSI unique
- CSI NuPoint won Best Core Banking System at the 2026 Banking Tech Awards USA.
- CSI sells integrated core, digital banking, AI, AML, and fintech orchestration for community banks.
- CSI’s Open Integration Hub and developer portal reduce fintech hookup friction for banks.
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Company News
CSI, a financial software provider, has acquired Qolo, a fintech specialising in treasury solutions and payments infrastructure. The acquisition strengthens CSI's commercial banking offerings, helping community financial institutions provide flexible deposit structures, intelligent money movement, and expanded card programmes. The deal extends CSI's reach across the fintech and payments ecosystem. Together, the companies aim to help community banks compete with larger institutions by offering modern commercial banking capabilities. Qolo's technology will serve as an orchestration layer across payments, accounts, and workflows, integrating with CSI's existing platforms. The acquisition advances CSI's vertical banking strategy, enabling community banks to deliver industry-tailored solutions. Qolo also serves fintech and B2B payments providers, which will benefit from CSI's scale and compliance expertise. Patricia Montesi, Qolo's co-founder and CEO, noted the blurring line between traditional banking and embedded finance as a key industry challenge the combined entity will address.
CSI, a financial software provider, has launched Customer Intelligence Suite, an AI-powered solution designed to help financial institutions deepen customer relationships through data-driven insights. The platform synthesizes information from core banking, digital channels, payments and third-party sources to identify meaningful changes in customers' financial lives. The suite uses AI-driven signals to surface opportunities in real time, such as detecting recent graduates needing savings accounts or businesses requiring working capital. For commercial clients, it identifies cash flow trends and readiness for treasury services or lending products. Integrating data from CSI's portfolio, including Apiture and Velocity analytics, the insights are embedded directly into CSI NuPoint CRM and banking channels. CSI will enroll customers in a pilot programme in Q3 2025, with general availability planned for Q4 2026.
CSI, a financial software provider, has partnered with Carefull to help banks and credit unions protect older account holders from fraud and scams. The collaboration will provide AI-powered tools that detect elder fraud patterns before funds leave financial institutions. Americans aged 60 and over lost $4.86 billion to fraud in 2024, with average losses exceeding $33,000 per victim, according to the FBI. Carefull's platform detects more than 70 unique elder fraud patterns, including suspicious transactions and behavioural changes. The platform offers senior-specific fraud detection, caregiver access with role-based permissions, plain-language alerts and aggregated reporting for financial institutions. CSI's bank and credit union clients can deploy the solution quickly through online and mobile channels, offering simplified enrollment to account holders.
CSI, a financial software and technology provider, has appointed Abe Kuruvilla as chief information and technology officer. He will oversee architecture, engineering and platform operations, focusing on modernising CSI's ecosystem for community and regional financial institutions. Kuruvilla brings over 20 years of experience leading technology organisations. Most recently, he served as chief technology officer at ACI Worldwide, delivering mission-critical payments solutions globally. Previously, he was chief information officer at CoreLogic, where he led cloud migration and platform modernisation, earning the 2021 HousingWire Tech Trendsetter Award. The appointment follows CSI's acquisition of digital banking provider Apiture and a strategic reorganisation to enhance its integrated platform spanning deposits, lending, digital banking and customer engagement.
CSI acquires Apiture to power every stage of the account holder lifecycle from digital banking to customer engagement and lending.