SAN FRANCISCO – November 12, 2026 -- Itaú Unibanco will use the Harness software delivery platform across its entire engineering organization, Harness said. The vendor describes the bank as the largest private-sector bank in Latin America.
According to Harness, the bank has thousands of engineers shipping software for millions of customers across digital banking, payments and platform services. Harness says it serves more than 1,000 large engineering organizations, so Itaú joins an existing customer base rather than opening a new one.
The bank will standardize delivery on governed templates, automated verification and policy-driven controls. Harness says this gives Itaú's teams faster builds, automated rollbacks and a consistent deployment experience across the bank's primary programming languages and cloud environments. The company also says security, audit and compliance requirements will be built into every pipeline by default.
Itaú plans to widen its use of Harness across the full software delivery lifecycle in the months after an initial adoption phase, according to Harness. The stated aim is to give engineering leaders consistent visibility, control and cost data from code to production, and to cut the time from commit to production.
André Palma, Director of Platform Engineering at Itaú Unibanco, said the bank is always evaluating capabilities that strengthen how its teams build and deliver software. CTO Carlos Eduardo Mazzei said Harness adds intelligence, speed and governance to that effort.
Neither company disclosed the contract value or the size of the initial adoption phase.