Service Domain Solution Architect, Information Capability team

Nordea; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea Bank Abp invites a Service Domain Solution Architect to guide the direction and design of technology solutions across our business services within Group Technology. You will shape architecture standards, patterns, and governance to deliver measurable value while aligning with Nordea's strategy and security requirements.

The role focuses on building and maintaining credit data solutions and a reliable information foundation to improve operational and capital efficiency, ensuring Nordea

Qualifications

• Proven experience translating complex business services into scalable solutions.
• Experience setting architecture direction for resilient, adaptable solutions.
• Knowledge of APIs, integration, and modern tech stacks.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Develop the solution architecture direction for business services, ensuring simplicity, resilience, and long-term sustainability.
• Define and maintain solution design standards and patterns guiding high-quality development.
• Support stakeholders with architectural decisions and governance across teams.
• Identify opportunities to evolve solutions with AI and emerging tech.

Skills

Solution architecture

Business domain knowledge

APIs & integration

Big data concepts

AI & emerging tech

Stakeholder management

Security design

Tools

Snowflake

Cloudera/Hadoop

Power BI

PEGA

Job description

Job ID: 4676

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and leading 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.

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and leading 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.

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

Join the Information Capability team. We focus on building and maintaining credit data solutions and a reliable information foundation that enhances operational and capital efficiency, ensuring Nordea remains safe and trusted. We are looking for a Service Domain Solution Architect to guide the direction and design of technology solutions across our business services in our domain.

Key responsibilities in this role

• Develop a strong understanding of the business domain and the end-user outcomes our business services support, ensuring our solutions deliver meaningful and lasting value
• Set the solution architecture direction for our business services, ensuring solutions are simple, resilient, adaptable, and sustainable in the long run
• Define and maintain solution design standards, architectural patterns, and principles that guide consistent and high-quality solution development
• Support business service owners and tech teams with architectural decisions, helping them navigate trade-offs and align solutions with the agreed standards and strategy
• Promote alignment across systems and business services, ensuring solutions integrate effectively and evolve in a coherent way over time
• Identify opportunities to improve solutions, leverage AI and other emerging technologies, and guide the long-term evolution of business services
• Provide technical guidance and architectural support to development teams, promoting tools and practices to streamline delivery and improve governance

Who You Are

This is the right role for you if you:

• Are proactive, value- and quality driven
• Have a broad architecture, security, and design perspective
• Excel in a rapidly changing environment, using AI as a multiplier
• Can adapt to evolving learning approaches and development paths
• Embrace continuous experimentation with a passion to innovate and improve

Your background and skills include:

• Proven experience understanding complex business services and translating them into solutions that deliver measurable outcomes
• Strong understanding of solution design principles, architectural patterns, and integration approaches
• Experience setting architecture direction for scalable, adaptable, and resilient solutions
• Experience defining solution design standards, reference architectures, and guiding principles that promote high-quality, maintainable, and long-lasting solutions
• Demonstrated ability to guide, mentor, and influence stakeholders across business and technical teams
• Knowledge of APIs, integration, and modern technology stacks
• Comprehensive big data understanding - data models, logical/physical and high/low level design
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate a complex technical landscape
• Fluent in English, written as well as spoken

It would be ideal if you also have:

• Financial services background, understanding of master data and credit risk management
• Experience in transforming complex business problems into simple solution architectures and designs
• Experience with AI and other emerging technologies and how they can support durable, scalable solutions
• Proven stakeholder management across multiple teams in a complex organizational setting
• BizDevOps experience with coordination across business, development, and operationsExperience in Snowflake, Cloudera/Hadoop, Power BI, or PEGA (preferred)

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