Lead Data Engineer — ML & MLOps on AWS SageMaker

Nordea; Oulu; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea invites an Expert Data Engineer to join the Service Domain Data & Analytics team on a full‑time permanent basis. You will build distributed, near real-time data pipelines, design ML workflows on AWS SageMaker, and mentor engineers while driving cloud migration.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver Customer 360 data products and AI‑powered analytics, ensuring scalable, robust data platforms and secure data handling across the bank.

Qualifications

• MLOps/SageMaker: 5+ years building, deploying, and scaling end-to-end ML pipelines on AWS SageMaker
• Python: 7+ years enterprise-level development with deep expertise in Pandas, NumPy, Scikit‑Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow
• Strong experience integrating ML pipelines with cloud‑native data platforms like Snowflake and Apache Iceberg
• Proven experience building robust, scalable data pipelines and AWS cloud infrastructure
• Professional English communication skills to engage effectively with technical and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain distributed, high-performance data pipelines handling large volumes of structured and unstructured data in near real time
• Design and implement end-to-end ML pipelines on AWS SageMaker, covering model evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Drive cloud migration initiatives from on‑premise systems to AWS while ensuring seamless integration
• Lead communities of practice and mentor junior engineers in software engineering fundamentals and ML best practices
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver Customer 360 data products and AI‑powered analytics solutions

Skills

MLOps/SageMaker

Python

Cloud data platforms

Data pipelines

English communication

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

AWS

Job description

Job ID: 4108

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 Data Engineer to join our Service Domain Data & Analytics team on a full-time permanent 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 Data & Analytics team. Our role is to harness the power of big data to drive smarter business decisions that directly impact how our organization processes, analyzes, and leverages massive datasets for strategic advantage.

What You'll Be Doing

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Build and maintain distributed, high-performance data pipelines handling large volumes of structured and unstructured data in near real-time
• Design and implement end-to-end ML pipelines on AWS SageMaker, covering model evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Drive cloud migration initiatives from on-premise systems to AWS while ensuring seamless integration
• Lead communities of practice and mentor junior engineers in software engineering fundamentals and ML best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver Customer 360 data products and AI-powered analytics solutions
  
  

Who You Are

This is the right role for you if you continuously work to improve through both engineering and business knowledge, take ownership of business solutions within your area, and have strong collaborative skills to engage and steer teams in the right direction.

Your background and skills include:

• MLOps/SageMaker: 5+ years building, deploying, and scaling end-to-end ML pipelines on AWS SageMaker
• Python: 7+ years enterprise-level development with deep expertise in Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow
• Strong experience integrating ML pipelines with cloud-native data platforms like Snowflake and Apache Iceberg
• Proven experience building robust, scalable data pipelines and AWS cloud infrastructure
• Professional English communication skills to engage effectively with technical and business stakeholders
  
  

It would be ideal if you also

• Hold AWS certification or equivalent cloud platform credentials
• Have hands-on experience with observability tools for drift detection and latency tracking
• Bring experience with Apache Iceberg and advanced data lake architectures
  
  

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.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Please note that we will start interviews already before job opening closes.Submit your application no later than 31/07/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Enrique Cordero [e-mail]

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.

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