Synechron Partners with Cognition to Bring Autonomous AI Engineering to Global Financial Institutions

Synechron, a leading digital transformation consulting firm, and Cognition today announced a strategic partnership to help global financial institutions modernize critical software faster using AI-assisted engineering.

The partnership embeds Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, into Synechron’s delivery model, building on Synechron’s extensive experience delivering solutions to a majority of the world’s largest banks. By combining certified engineers with AI agents capable of reasoning across large, complex enterprise codebases, the firms enable faster, lower-risk modernization within existing security and governance frameworks.

“Our clients want proven, reliable ways to accelerate their development work,” said Mihir Shah, Synechron’s president. “Through Synechron Labs, we’ve already seen strong results across system upgrades and migration projects. By combining our domain expertise with Cognition’s AI capabilities, we’re giving financial institutions a more dependable way to modernize their technology.”

With both Synechron’s and Cognition’s deep banking and insurance expertise, the partnership is designed to help financial institutions accelerate modernization while maintaining strict quality, security and governance standards.

Synechron’s joint research and development with Cognition showed that Devin handled upgrades faster, made engineering easier, and improved testing, leading to clear productivity and quality gains.

“Enterprises don’t just need productivity gains; they need a new operating model for engineering,” said Gardner Johnson, global VP of partnerships. “The Synechron Labs team quickly saw that Devin transforms how large systems can be understood, modernized, and evolved. By combining AI agents with deep domain expertise, we’re helping clients reimagine what’s possible across their most critical platforms.”

Partnership Impact

• Direct access to Devin through Synechron’s service offerings, bringing autonomous engineering capabilities directly into client modernization programs.
• Cognition-trained and certified engineers, ensuring responsible, compliant deployment aligned with financial-industry governance standards.
• Integration with Synechron’s accelerators to modernize legacy systems, refactor large-scale codebases, and accelerate time to market.
• Joint go-to-market programs, including enterprise pilots that take AI engineering “from theory to production-tested reality” across Java upgrades, COBOL modernization, SAS-to-PySpark migrations, and other high-impact use cases.
• Co-developed R&D to extend agent capabilities, including CI/CD integration and cloud-pipeline workflows.