Senior Platform Engineer (Apache Flink)

DNB Bank ASA Norge; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Conferences and training

Pension plan

Insurance schemes

Resorts in Norway and abroad

Sports and culture activities

Job summary

DNB Bank ASA Norge seeks a Senior Engineer to design, build and govern the integration platform, working with Architects, PO’s, and Ops to enable data streaming solutions.

You will help onboard teams, define data streams and APIs, and contribute to a scalable self-service platform for the organization.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of software/platform engineering or data integration delivery.
• Hands-on deployment and configuration of Kafka on Kubernetes (K8s) and Flink environments.
• Experience building real-time data pipelines with stream processing.
• Flink SQL and stream-processing patterns like enrichment and windowing.
• Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices (Flux) knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and govern the integration platform with engineers and architects.
• Support data streaming initiatives and onboard teams to the platform.
• Define APIs, data streams, and integration solutions to meet needs.
• Participate from concept to production focusing on self-service capabilities.
• Scale future data streams platform and share knowledge internally and externally.

Skills

5-10 years exp

Kafka on Kubernetes

Stream processing

Flink SQL

GitOps (Flux)

Education

Higher technical education

Job description

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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.

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 engineerwith 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 forskilled 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:

Must have

• 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 on Kubernetes (K8s).
• 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 with Flink SQL/stream-processing patterns, use cases such as enrichment, aggregation, fraud detection, and operational analytics.
• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices, FLUX; we run everything as code

Good to have

• Experience in platform engineering, contributing to platform standards, reusable templates, self-service onboarding, developer enablement, governance and best-practice guidance for event-streaming solutions.
• Strong practical experience with Apache Kafka.
• 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, with the ability to build streaming applications

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.

In DNB, we carry out background checks to verify that the information provided in your CV and other documentation is correct. Background checks are generally performed by an external independent third party. Former employers are typically contacted to check previous positions and periods of employment, while educational institutions are asked to confirm marks.No background check will be conducted without your prior consent, and you will receive more detailed information about this, if applicable. For positions that require an authorisation and/or approval of suitability, a police certificate of good conduct will be required.