Enterprise Solution Architect — Banking & FinTech Platforms

Nordea; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software development, including guiding development teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with software architecture and system design.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems and service-based architectures.
• Ability to communicate architecture using suitable modelling techniques (UML, C4 Model) and present designs to audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture runway for the Standardized Corporate Loans agile release train and support teams in designing complex, business‑critical software solutions.
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade‑offs effectively to both business stakeholders and engineering teams, adapting the level of detail to the audience.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, robust, and compliant technical solutions
• Ensure solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and data governance requirements in a highly regulated financial environment.
• Actively participate in solution design and software development, providing hands‑on guidance, proof‑of‑concepts, design reviews, and critical implementation decisions.
• Drive adoption of modern architectural approaches, including microservices, monolith, and event‑driven architectures
• Conduct architecture and design reviews, identify technical risks early, and actively drive mitigation actions.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

System design

Leadership

Communication

UML/C4 modeling

Education

Degree in CS/SE

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

REST APIs

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