Senior Platform Engineer (Apache Flink)

DNB; Oslo; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Insurance schemes

Conferences and training opportunities

Resorts in Norway and abroad

Sports and cultural activities

Job summary

DNB is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Integration and Identity Tech Family in Oslo. You will design, build and govern our integration platform, working with architects and product owners, and helping teams onboard.

You will shape the data streaming architecture, APIs and event‑driven solutions, spanning cloud and on‑prem environments. You will engage across concepts to production, promote self‑service access, and contribute to best practices and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or data integration.
• Hands-on experience with Deploy and configure scalable infrastructure environments for Apache / Confluent Flink and Kafka.
• Experience with stream‑processing frameworks for building real‑time data pipelines, stateful processing, event‑time processing, windowing, joins, fault tolerance, and exactly‑once processing patterns.
• Experience in platform engineering, contributing to platform standards, reusable templates, self‑service onboarding, developer enablement, governance and best‑practice guidance for event‑streaming solutions.
• Experience with Flink SQL/stream‑processing patterns, use cases such as enrichment, aggregation, fraud detection, and operational analytics.
• Strong practical experience with Apache Kafka, including topic design, producer and consumer patterns, schema management, consumer groups, partitioning, replication, monitoring, troubleshooting, and secure operations.
• Experience deploying and operating platform components on Kubernetes, including StatefulSets, Helm, operators, resource management, scaling, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, preferably with managed streaming, container, networking, secrets, and observability services.
• Strong understanding of data‑streaming security, including TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC, certificate handling, secrets management, network policies, and access‑control models.
• Solid development experience in Java, Python, .NET, or similar languages, with the ability to build robust streaming applications, platform automation, APIs, and integration services.
• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices; we run everything as code.

Responsibilities

• Join a team designing, building and governing our integration platform.
• Collaborate with Architects, Product Owners, Operations engineers and other Developers.
• Support and onboard other teams to the integration platform, proposing frameworks, APIs and data streams.
• Contribute from concept to production and help scale our data streams platform.
• Promote self‑service capabilities and share knowledge internally and externally.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Kafka

Flink

Java

Python

Data streaming

GitOps

AWS/Azure

Security: TLS/SASL/RBAC

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Higher technical education

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

StatefulSets

Confluent Kafka

Job description

People are the very DNA of DNB. Since 1822, bright minds have worked together to find the best solutions for our customers. Today, DNB is much more than Norway's largest bank – we are a technology-driven financial institution that continuously connects people and ideas to knowledge and capital in new ways.

Diversity is part of who we are, and inclusion is something we actively choose every single day. We promise to do our best to make you feel at home. A job at Norway's largest financial group offers professional challenges in an exciting work environment with many opportunities for development.

Senior Platform Engineer

We are looking for experienced Engineer to help us build the DNB Integration Platform

The game of banking is changing, and DNB is taking an active part in defining the future of financial services by becoming a technological leader in the industry. To do this we need to strengthen our technical community further by hiring experienced and passionate integration architects to help us drive the change.

DNB is Norway’s largest bank with more than 2 million customers daily. We provide a full range of financial services within retail and corporate banking, asset management, pension and more, helping Norwegians to move billions of NOK every day through seamless experiences and intuitive user journeys.

The Integration and Identity Tech Family

The Integration and identity Family is responsible for the integration platforms, architecture and governance across DNB. This includes building a Hybrid Integration Platform for synchronous and asynchronous integration, defining and governing the API and Event-based integration guidelines and patterns, and performing integration solution architecture for business-driven initiatives. We have for a while been on a journey to encapsulate our legacy systems into standardized and reusable REST API services and are now adding event-based integration patterns, using streaming technologies like Kafka as a centralized DNB Multi-cloud Event Hub.

Multi-cloud tech strategy is to gradually off-load and replace our on-premises legacy platforms and systems. Integration Platforms have a vital role in this journey.

Who Are You

We are looking for engineer with a growth mindset who inspire colleagues and external partners, with a mix of humbleness, but also can take the lead. You are passionate about technology and have a strong interest in learning about and playing with new technologies. But almost equally important is your ability to be a good team player and that you understand the need to cooperate with others to reach great results.

Your mission

As a Senior Engineer, you will join a team of engaged and dedicated engineers who are working to design, build and govern integration platform. You will interact closely with Architects, Product Owners, Operations engineers and other Developers. Together with us you will be supporting and taking data streaming initiative design, build, offer solution to DNB, troubleshoot and maintain integration platform. Help other teams getting onboarded on integration platform, suggesting application frameworks, APIs, data streams and other integrations solution which best fit according to the needs.

You’ll participate in everything from concept till production. We focus on creating the best self-service enabled platform and contribute to best practices and knowledge sharing internally as well as externally. In this position, you will play a significant role in exploring, defining, and scaling our future data streams platform.

Background and technical skills:

We are looking for skilled person with strong knowledge towards distributed systems management using Kubernetes, data streaming technologies i.e., Kafka, Flink. You should have strong skills in designing, building, and maintaining sync and async interfaces. We prefer that you have completed higher technical education, but we also acknowledge that extensive relevant experience may make up for this. You must be fluent in English (both oral and written). Norwegian skills are a plus.

Required Job Skills:

• 5–10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or data integration, with hands‑on delivery of distributed and event‑driven systems.
• Hands‑on experience with Deploy and configure scalable infrastructure environments for Apache / Confluent Flink and Kafka.
• Experience with stream‑processing frameworks for building real‑time data pipelines, stateful processing, event‑time processing, windowing, joins, fault tolerance, and exactly‑once processing patterns.
• Experience in platform engineering, contributing to platform standards, reusable templates, self‑service onboarding, developer enablement, governance and best‑practice guidance for event‑streaming solutions.
• Experience with Flink SQL/stream‑processing patterns, use cases such as enrichment, aggregation, fraud detection, and operational analytics.
• Strong practical experience with Apache Kafka, including topic design, producer and consumer patterns, schema management, consumer groups, partitioning, replication, monitoring, troubleshooting, and secure operations.
• Experience deploying and operating platform components on Kubernetes, including StatefulSets, Helm, operators, resource management, scaling, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, preferably with managed streaming, container, networking, secrets, and observability services.
• Strong understanding of data‑streaming security, including TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC, certificate handling, secrets management, network policies, and access‑control models.
• Solid development experience in Java, Python, .NET, or similar languages, with the ability to build robust streaming applications, platform automation, APIs, and integration services.
• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices; we run everything as code.

What You Get

We offer competitive terms, a strong professional environment within the field of technology and good career opportunities. Possibilities of attending conferences and training courses. In addition to this we offer good pension conditions, employee terms on DNB’s products, insurance schemes, resorts in Norway and abroad, sports, cultural and other activities.

Contact: Atif Usman | [e-mail] | [phone]

Application deadline: 14.09.26

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