Service Domain Architecture Lead for Embedded Banking

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Helsinki or Gdańsk to shape embedded banking services and real-time, API-driven integrations. You will align business strategy with technology, influence architecture across payments, cash management and reporting, and collaborate with international teams in a hybrid setup.

Ideal candidates bring deep payments knowledge, enterprise architecture experience, and strong English communication to drive scalable solutions and governance across multiple

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, engineering or similar.
• 1
• Experience in enterprise architecture for payments/banking domains.
• 3
• Strong English communication and collaboration across teams.
• 2
• Knowledge of API-based banking solutions and integration patterns.
• 2
• Exposure to embedded banking services and real-time APIs.
• 2

Responsibilities

• Define architecture visions and target architectures for payments and embedded banking.
• Governance and approval through architecture review boards.
• Collaborate with business and tech stakeholders across service domains.
• Coach junior architects and drive technology adoption.
• Ensure scalable, cost-efficient integration across platforms.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Payments domain

API and integration

Stakeholder mgmt

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/engineering

Tools

API Gateways

Event-driven services

Open Banking platforms

Job description

Job ID: 4960 Would you like to play a key role in shaping how Nordea delivers banking services into corporate and partner platforms? We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to define and drive business and technology solutions within the Embedded Banking Service Domain.

Job ID: 4960 Would you like to play a key role in shaping how Nordea delivers banking services into corporate and partner platforms? We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to define and drive business and technology solutions within the Embedded Banking Service Domain. At Nordea, we are transforming our integration capabilities to support scalable, real-time and API-driven banking services. The Embedded Banking Service Domain focuses on exposing payments, cash management and account reporting capabilities through APIs, file-based integrations and partner interfaces, enabling our customers to embed banking services directly into their own systems and platforms. This is a significant change journey – and you will be at the centre of it. Working closely with international teams, you will influence strategic direction, strengthen architecture practices and contribute to long-term value creation for the bank.

About This Opportunity

Welcome to the Corporate and Transactions Architecture Team. We add value by working closely with senior management and all other stakeholders on the business side as well as the technology side on translating business trends and new regulation into actionable initiatives and fit-for-purpose solutions.

As the Enterprise Architect, you’ll play a valuable role by understanding changing business strategies and requirements, by bringing your technology competence to the table and by merging these two into design of well architected, user friendly and cost effective solutions.

In the Embedded Banking Service Domain, this includes shaping how Nordea’s services are integrated via APIs and file-based channels, defining architectures for payment initiation, account reporting and real-time services, and ensuring scalable orchestration and integration across internal platforms and external partner ecosystems.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with other architects, business and technology stakeholders on developing Architecture Visions and Target & Transition Architectures for various parts of the business and the technology landscape with a main focus on the payments related area
• Support the various execution structures and development teams building the solutions with architecture and governance/approval processes
• Join and/or run enterprise architecture assignments going across several Service Areas
• Represent Architecture in various steering committees and other governance foras
• Support proof-of-concept and procurement processes of new software and technology
• Manage the architecture elements of new technology adoption processes
• Support and coach less senior architects in the relevant areas
• You will work with all four architectural disciplines and at all abstraction levels
• You will work with all business lines related Corporate customers, but the main focus will be Embedded Banking and closely related areas like Payment Execution, Channels and Payments Data

This role is open in Helsinki or Gdańsk. We work in a hybrid model (60 % onsite, 40 % remote), combining office collaboration with flexible remote work.

Who You Are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Strong communication and cooperation skills – also in English – and that you are able to interact seamlessly with many different parts of the organisation and at all levels
• A team player but also able to work well on your own when required
• Work on several different assignments concurrently
• Prioritise your own assignments according to agreed overall priorities and in dialogue with the Service Domain leadership team and your manager
• Probably have a Bachelor's or a Master's in computer science, engineering or similar or another technology related background combined with many years of experience working in and with architecture functions
• Have a strong understanding of Payments as a business area
• Experience working with Payment Platforms
• Hands‑on experience with Embedded Banking services, including payment initiation, account reporting and integration channels (APIs and file-based solutions)
• Experience working with API‑based banking solutions, open banking interfaces or partner integrations, enabling banking services to be consumed by external systems and platforms
• Understand how payments, cash management and reporting services are exposed and orchestrated across channels, APIs and backend platforms
• Experience working with integration architectures, including API gateways, event‑driven services or file-based integration models in a banking context
• The ability to take high level business strategies and objectives and transform them to tangible and executable architectures

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

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