Expert IT Architect in Consumer Finance Service Domain

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea Group Technology is seeking an Expert IT Architect to define and govern solution designs aligned with enterprise strategy, delivering secure, scalable technology across the bank.

You will lead strategic architectural discussions, maintain design documentation, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with standards, regulatory requirements, and the technology roadmap. This role offers a hybrid work model in Finland.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering solution architecture with detailed diagrams and data models.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture and governance.
• Knowledge of integration technologies and integration patterns.
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic architectural discussions to reduce complexity, enhance agility, improve cost efficiency and strengthen business outcomes.
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of current and future applications and IT infrastructures, proactively identifying gaps and dependencies.
• Design architecture aligned with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and the technology roadmap.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive solution design documentation, including detailed process flows, system diagrams, and data models.
• Collaborate with the architecture community and cross-functional teams to align on solution design and delivery objectives.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise governance

Data modelling

Integration patterns

Stakeholder management

English communication

Job description

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

We are looking for an Expert IT Architect responsible for defining and governing solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy, fulfilment of business requirements and delivery of secure, scalable, and sustainable technology solutions. This position is offered under a full-time employment agreement.

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

Meet the Consumer Finance Service Domain team. Our role is to deliver value by providing a strong technology organisation that enables effortless, end‑to‑end digital customer journeys. We do this by enhancing Nordea’s credit card offerings and delivering convenient consumer lending solutions for our customers.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Lead strategic architectural discussions to reduce complexity, enhance organisational agility, improve cost efficiency, mitigate risks and strengthen overall business outcomes
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of both current and future applications and IT infrastructure landscapes, proactively identifying gaps, dependencies and areas requiring improvement
• Design architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and strategic technology roadmap
• Develop and maintain comprehensive solution design documentation, incorporating detailed process flows, system architecture diagrams, and data models to ensure clarity, accuracy, and alignment with business and technical requirements
• Collaborate with the architecture community, key stakeholders, and cross‑functional teams to ensure alignment on solution design, technical standards, and delivery objectives

Who y Ou Are

This is the right role for you if you:

• Act proactively and decisively, navigating ambiguity with confidence
• Are strategic and structured, yet able to operate comfortably across strategic, tactical, and operational levels
• Communicate with clarity, negotiate effectively, and are not afraid to challenge decisions to drive the best outcomes
• Thrive on collaborating with diverse teams to ensure architecture is communicated effectively and consistently
• Excel at facilitation, understanding the interplay between technology, data and business
• Focus on personal development and mentor others to enhance effectiveness

Your background and skills include:

• 10+ years’ of experience with delivering solution architecture, through detailed process, system diagrams and data modelling
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture and governance
• Knowledge of integration technologies and application integration patterns
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Excellent communication skills in English

It would be ideal if you also have:

• Experience in the financial services or banking sector, especially with retail products
• Knowledge of process automation platforms: specifically Pega
• Experience in working in agile methodology (SAFe)

What We Offer

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.

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.

Only for candidates in Finland:

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

Only for candidates in Sweden:

For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at [e-mail] or SACO at [e-mail].

Only for candidates in Poland:

Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:

In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter ‘GDPR’. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp.

The administrator of your personal data is: Nordea Bank Abp operating in Poland through its Branch, address: Aleja Edwarda Rydza Śmiglego 20, 93-281 Łodź. Your personal data will be processed for the recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. You have a right to access your personal data, right to rectify and right to delete. Disclosing the personal data in the scope specified by the provisions of Polish Labour Code from 26 June 1974 and executive acts are mandatory. Providing personal data is necessary to conduct the recruitment processes. The request for the deletion of your personal data means resignation from further participation in recruitment processes and causes the immediate removal of your application. Detailed information concerning processing of your personal data can be found at: https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf

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