Senior IT Developer - Engineering & Automation (Python | SQL | Cloud)

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 versatile Senior IT Developer in Helsinki to tackle hands-on engineering across applications, data, platforms, and automation. You will modernise data warehousing, improve pipelines, and automate workflows while delivering pragmatic, production-ready solutions.

You’ll work across Python, SQL, APIs, and cloud services, collaborating with engineers across the region. The role emphasizes AI-enabled development, continuous learning, and proactive change within a major Nordic bank.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development or data engineering experience.
• Strong programming in Python and SQL with production experience.
• Experience building and operating production solutions in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Ability to move between application code, data and infra when solving problems.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Solve engineering problems across services, data flows, and automation.
• Design and build maintainable solutions with Python, SQL, APIs and cloud services.
• Evolve data warehousing toward reusable capabilities and end-to-end automation.
• Work across the full delivery lifecycle from design to production support.
• Improve quality and reliability with automated testing, observability and best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Problem solving

Cloud experience

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

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Helsinki, FI, 00500

Job ID: 6526

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 seeking a versatile Senior IT Developer for a hands‑on engineering role solving a broad range of technical problems across applications, data, platforms, and automation. Our immediate opportunities include modernising how data warehousing is built and operated, but we are looking first and foremost for an adaptable engineer who can understand a problem, choose a pragmatic solution, and take it through to production.

This is not a narrowly defined specialist role. You may work on a Python service, improve a deployment pipeline, automate an operational process, investigate a production issue, or simplify a warehouse workflow. We are looking for someone who learns fast, works comfortably across boundaries, drives change proactively, and uses AI as a practical part of everyday engineering.

About our team

Welcome to the Trading Data Warehouse & BI team. We work closely with stakeholders supporting one of the largest trading environments in the Nordics, where dependable systems, trusted data, speed, and reliability matter. Although warehousing is central to our current landscape, our challenges span software development, integration, cloud platforms, automation, and production operations. We want to solve them with less manual effort and a more scalable engineering model.You'll join a team of enthusiastic data professionals across Scandinavia, Poland and India. This role is based in Finland.

What you'll be doing

Engineering & Problem Solving:

• Solve varied engineering problems across services, integrations, data flows, platforms, and operational tooling.
• Design and build maintainable solutions using Python, SQL, APIs, cloud services, and the most appropriate tools for the problem.
• Help evolve data warehousing from project‑style delivery toward reusable capabilities, stronger platforms, and end‑to‑end automation.
• Work across the full delivery lifecycle, from understanding a business need through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Improve quality and reliability through automated testing, validation, observability, and simple engineering practices.

AI & Transformation:

• Use AI tools thoughtfully in your daily development workflow as a practical accelerator for analysis, coding, testing, documentation, and operational work.
• Help shape a more AI‑enabled, automation‑first way of working across the team.
• Challenge legacy delivery patterns and propose pragmatic alternatives that improve speed, quality, and maintainability.
• Identify where software and automation can remove repetitive work, simplify operations, and improve outcomes for users.
• Contribute to building a culture where experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement are part of the job.

DevOps & Automation:

• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices across our software and data workflows.
• Work with Docker and container‑based development and deployment workflows.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for critical services and processes.
• Automate repetitive tasks and operational processes wherever manual work limits scale or speed.
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge‑sharing sessions, and team ceremonies.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads and architects to refine technical standards.
• Proactively share learnings and contribute to internal documentation, engineering practices, and team standards.
• Bring curiosity, initiative, and a strong learning mindset to both technical work and team development
• Support and mentor junior colleagues.

Who you are

Your background and skills include:

• 4+ years of experience in software development, data engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or a related technical field.
• Strong programming and problem‑solving skills, with practical experience in Python and SQL.
• Experience building and operating production solutions in cloud or enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Ability to move between application code, data, infrastructure, and operational concerns when solving a problem.
• Working knowledge of data modelling and warehousing fundamentals, or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Curiosity and willingness to embrace AI‑assisted development — you see AI as a tool to amplify your capabilities.
• A builder mentality — you want to improve how things work, not just operate within existing patterns.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

It would be ideal if you also have:

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, or similar).
• Exposure to infrastructure‑as‑code or configuration management.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks.
• Experience in a financial services or regulated environment.
• Interest in data quality frameworks and automated testing, or self‑service data capabilities

We are at a point where the old way of scaling warehousing work is no longer enough.

Our team is actively:

• Adopting AI at scale — using AI as a practical accelerator for development, testing, automation, and daily engineering work.
• Transforming our way of working — moving from manually intensive delivery toward more proactive, automation‑driven engineering.
• Building a stronger engineering culture — raising expectations around ownership, learning, simplicity, and impact.
• Modernizing our platform — improving developer experience, reducing manual work, and raising the bar on engineering quality.

This is an opportunity to join at a pivotal moment and help shape both the technology and the operating model behind it. If you enjoy tackling unfamiliar problems and want to build a more automated, AI‑enabled engineering environment, this is the right time to join.

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.

• A chance to work on meaningful engineering problems in a business‑critical domain.
• An opportunity to help shape how software, automation, and data platforms evolve in a major Nordic bank.
• Colleagues with diverse backgrounds across engineering, data, and business domains.

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.

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.

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