Senior / Expert Java Developer - Safekeeping & Trading Operations

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a seasoned Java developer to help design and modernize the IMSecurities safekeeping and corporate actions ecosystem. You will craft integration layers, API domains, and microservices while advancing CI/CD and test automation across a multi-service landscape.

You’ll contribute across development, analysis, integration design, testing, DevOps, and production support. A strong background in enterprise-scale Java, Spring, SQL, and messaging is essential, with banking experience

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ enterprise software development experience in large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL and English.
• Experience with Spring Boot and Spring Integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize integration layer around IMSecurities, including Domain API and microservices.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD and test automation setup.
• Improve engineering quality through automated tests and code reviews.

Skills

Java

SQL

English

Spring Boot

Spring Integration

Kafka

IBM MQ

REST API

Maven

Git

CI/CD

Test automation

JUnit

Testcontainers

Tools

Oracle

REST API

Kafka

IBM MQ

CI/CD pipelines

Bamboo

Job description

Job ID: 4759

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.

About Our Team

Meet the Safekeeping and Corporate Actions Development team. Our role is to develop and modernise integrations of the IMSecurities Safekeeping & Corporate Action system with the rest of Nordea’s IT landscape. The application is a central part of Nordea’s trading lifecycle and supports safekeeping and corporate actions processes.

The Safekeeping system is a vendor solution. The team focuses on components and microservices around the Safekeeping solution, connected in a decoupled way with Kafka, IBM MQ, REST services and API Gateway to the Safekeeping platform and other Nordea systems. The current landscape includes around 20 microservices, with new services added regularly.

The application is in the roll‑out stage across the Nordics, and the broader team expansion strategy is to increase development capacity with versatile software engineers who can contribute across development, analysis, integration, automation and business-domain understanding.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and optimize integration layer surrounding IMSecurities, including Domain API, microservices, event‑driven integrations.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD and test automation setup.
• Improve engineering quality through automating regression tests in Java, writing code reviews, and systematic reduction of technical debt.
• Work across the full delivery chain: clarify requirements from business, analyse business and system flows, translate business needs into technical design and specifications, implement, test, deploy and support production solutions.
• Support knowledge sharing and mentoring in the team, especially by helping less experienced developers understand design choices, integration patterns and production‑quality engineering practices.
• Use AI‑assisted development and automation in a responsible way to improve productivity, quality and learning, and help spread practical engineering practices across the team.

Who You Are

This role suits you if you're fluent in Java, SQL, and English with 6+ years’ enterprise software development experience (10+ for Expert role) as a software developer in large scale enterprises.

You have broad technical curiosity and willingness to learn the trading and safekeeping business domain. You do not need to start as a securities domain expert, but you should want to understand why the system exists, how trade lifecycle processes work, and how technology decisions affect operational risk, resilience and business outcomes.

While you are primarily a Java developer skilled in backend development to deliver complex enterprise solutions, you also enjoy contributing in analysis, integration design, testing, DevOps, troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder dialogue.

You will step into IT analyst responsibilities when needed to understand business processes, ask structured questions, document flows and dependencies, and help turn trading‑domain requirements into implementable solutions.

You take ownership of problems, also when the answer is not obvious, and you are comfortable asking questions until the business and technical context is clear.

Your background and skills include

• Java, preferably from large-scale enterprise systems.
• Spring Boot and Spring Integration.
• SQL and relational databases, preferably Oracle.
• Kafka, IBM MQ, REST API.
• Build and delivery tooling such as Maven, Git and CI/CD pipelines, preferably Bamboo.
• Testing practices using tools such as JUnit and Testcontainers.
• Ability to work with business requirements, system documentation, logs, data flows and production issues.

It would be ideal if you also

• Experience from banking, trading, custody, settlement, corporate actions or another highly regulated domain.
• Experience with cloud‑ready application design.
• Experience mentoring other developers or acting as a technical lead, code reviewer or design sparring partner.
• Practical experience with AI‑assisted development tools, test automation, static code analysis and other productivity‑enhancing engineering practices.

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.