AI Gateway Engineer — Platform & Data Mesh (Hybrid)

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is modernizing its technology and data estate and seeks an engineer to design, build, and operate the enterprise AI Gateway. You will extend API platforms to support LLM, MCP, and A2A patterns, with automation to ensure reliability and production-readiness.

The role emphasizes hands-on platform engineering, Terraform, CI/CD, OpenAPI specs, IdP integration, and observability—working with architects, security, risk, and compliance in a regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring, and operating API platforms and gateways in enterprise environments.
• Experience with gateway platforms such as Kong, IBM API Connect/DataPower, cloud-native gateways, or similar API management tech.
• Solid knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm charts for deploying gateway components.
• Strong CI/CD, source control workflows, and automated release practices.
• Solid Python and Lua skills for Kong plugin development.
• Experience with IdP integration, authentication, authorization, and access control patterns for gateways.
• Familiarity with logging/monitoring tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana; FinOps concepts.
• Experience with OpenAPI specs, API contracts, gateway policies, and developer-facing docs.
• Ability to collaborate with architects, security, risk, compliance and engineering in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate AI Gateway capabilities using robust API platform practices.
• Implement secure, reusable gateway patterns for LLM access, MCP, and A2A integrations.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and automate provisioning of gateway components.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and release practices for gateway configurations.
• Set up and automate gateway policies to expose AI capabilities in a governed, developer-friendly way.
• Create/extend Kong plugins using Lua and Python for gateway capabilities.
• Integrate AI Gateway with enterprise IdP and support authentication/authorization/access control patterns.
• Establish logging, monitoring, and alerting with observability dashboards using Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Develop FinOps for AI Gateway including cost visibility and usage governance.
• Assist onboarding of new use cases and contribute to platform docs and templates.

Skills

Platform engineering

API gateways

Terraform

CI/CD

Source control

IdP integration

Observability

Kubernetes

Helm charts

Python/Lua

Education

BSc or MSc in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Kong

DataPower

OpenAPI

Git

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Nordea is modernizing its technology and data estate and seeks an engineer to design, build, and operate the enterprise AI Gateway. You will extend API platforms to support LLM, MCP, and A2A patterns, with automation to ensure reliability and production-readiness.

The role emphasizes hands-on platform engineering, Terraform, CI/CD, OpenAPI specs, IdP integration, and observability—working with architects, security, risk, and compliance in a regulated banking environment.