Enterprise Architect

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Nordea is renewing its KYC processes within Financial Crime Prevention, seeking an Enterprise Architect and Service Domain Architecture Lead based in Finland and Poland. You will define target architectures for KYC, drive roadmaps, and ensure alignment with Nordea and FCP standards while collaborating with business and technology leaders.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, stakeholder management, and delivering high-level designs and artefacts to enable AI, data, and modernization

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant architecture experience.
• Experience with large organizations.
• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Define high-level solution approaches and produce architecture deliverables (principles, standards, target and transition architecture artefacts, high-level designs, roadmaps).
• Drive solution design and data integration with other service areas and domains ensuring reusability and alignment with technology and data group strategy.
• Participate and drive architecture governance forums, steering solution design work.
• Document architecture decisions, and ensure transparent architecture processes.
• Provide advisory, concept development, and proof-of-concepts for new initiatives in collaboration with solution architects.

Skills

Collaboration

Structured work

Communication

Independent leadership

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor or Master’s

Tools

Cloud services

Data lake

Microservices

Integration patterns

Event management

ML/AI

Job description

Job ID: 5583

Know Your Customer (KYC) service domain within Financial Crime Prevention (FCP) service area is responsible for the framework for ensuring that we know whom we are doing business with, their source of funding, and the purpose of the transactions. A robust KYC process is the key element in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF).

Currently, KYC is renewing its processes and core applications. In coming years, the aim is to evolve KYC to a true customer activity monitoring domain by further automating KYC processes, bringing in more ML/AI based capabilities and capturing events related to our customers and their associated parties. This is a unique opportunity to drive the KYC architecture to a whole new dimension. The role reports to the Head of Financial Crime Prevention Architecture.

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We’re not just a bank; we’re a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About Our Team

The Financial Crime Prevention Architecture team is part of Group Architecture, a central unit that enables Nordea's strategies through architectural coherence and technology guidance. Join our team of 7 Enterprise Architects specializing in Financial Crime Prevention—a business domain focused on detecting, preventing, and reporting money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing, and sanctions violations. We help Nordea meet regulatory requirements, protect our customers and institution, and safeguard financial system integrity.

We set architectural direction, guide strategic investments, and drive execution enabling AI, data and modernization at Nordic scale through collaboration and partnerships with business and technology leaders across Nordea.

About This Opportunity

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect and Service Domain Architecture Lead to lead the KYC architecture within Financial Crime Prevention architecture team. This role is based in Finland and Poland.

You will be responsible for:

• Defining and maintaining target architectures and roadmaps for KYC in alignment with Nordea and FCP approved architectures, standards and guidelines
• Driving strongly the definition of KYC architecture roadmap in collaboration and cooperation with business and technology leads, and architects in KYC and other service domains
• Acting as the authority for KYC architecture, guiding solution design and ensuring alignment with strategic goals and common Nordea and FCP target and transition architectures
• Building trust and collaboration across stakeholders, from technology teams and business leaders to architecture teams
• Making sure that KYC architecture is compliant and follow Nordea group architecture direction and processes
• Architecture Stakeholder management between KYC and FCP architecture lead
• Driving spirit to ensure architects are strongly committed

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Define high-level solution approaches and produce architecture deliverables (principles, standards, target and transition architecture artefacts, high-level designs, roadmaps)
• Drive solution design and data integration with other service areas and domains ensuring reusability and alignment with technology and data group strategy
• Participate and drive architecture governance forums, steering solution design work
• Document architecture decisions, and ensure transparent architecture processes
• Provide advisory, concept development, and proof-of-concepts for new initiatives in collaboration with solution architects
• Serve as the architecture authority in vendor and technology selection
• Be a member of the architecture community, ensuring knowledge sharing and professional development

Who You Are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Work, collaborate and communicate well with others, act with the customer’s needs in mind
• Are structured, manage complex landscape, and committed to quality and deadlines
• Communicate effectively and build trust across stakeholders at all levels
• Are honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it is difficult
• Can drive strategic work independently while empowering others

Your background and skills include:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant architecture experience, with a strong understanding of technical capabilities in:
  • Workflow & case management
  • Microservices architecture
  • Integration techniques and patterns
  • Event management
  • ML/AI
  • Data lake solutions
  • Cloud services
• Experience with architecture in large organizations
• Experience in financial services and financial crime prevention is an advantage
• Relevant education (Bachelor or Master’s)
• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written

What We Offer

• People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.
• A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.
• Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.
• Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

Next steps

For more information about the position, you are more than welcome to contact Financial Crime Prevention Architecture Lead, Illia Baranenko at [e-mail] and Ritu Mittal ([e-mail]) for HR related matters.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us. Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

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