AI Gateway Platform Engineer: Data Mesh & API Automation

Nordea; Gdynia; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Nordea Group Technology is modernizing its API platforms and building an enterprise AI Gateway to enable secure, scalable AI services across the bank. This hands-on platform engineering role focuses on design, build, and operation of gateway capabilities with a strong emphasis on Terraform, OpenAPI, and CI/CD.

You will work with Kong and other gateway technologies, implement reusable patterns, and collaborate with architects, security, risk, and compliance in a regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with API platforms and gateway technologies in enterprise environments.
• Experience with gateway platforms such as Kong, IBM API Connect/DataPower, cloud-native gateways, or similar API management technologies.
• Solid knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm charts for deploying and managing platform or gateway components.
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and automated release practices.
• Solid knowledge of Python and Lua for creating, extending, and maintaining Kong plugins.
• Solid knowledge of IdP integration, authentication, authorization, and access control patterns for gateways.
• Experience setting up logging, monitoring, and alerting, including Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Understanding of FinOps practices, including cost visibility and consumption tracking.
• Experience with OpenAPI specifications, API contracts, gateway policies, and developer-facing platform documentation.
• Ability to work with architects, security, risk, compliance, and engineering teams in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate AI Gateway capabilities based on strong API platform and gateway engineering practices.
• Implement secure and reusable gateway patterns for LLM access, MCP servers, and A2A agent-to-agent integrations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and support automated provisioning of gateway components.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and release practices for gateway configuration and platform changes.
• Set up and automate gateway policies to expose AI capabilities in a governed, developer-friendly way.
• Create and extend Kong plugins using Lua and Python to support custom gateway capabilities.
• Integrate the AI Gateway with enterprise identity providers and support authentication, authorization, and access control patterns.
• Set up logging, monitoring and alerting for gateway services with Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana dashboards.
• Establish FinOps capabilities for AI Gateway usage, including cost visibility and consumption tracking.
• Support onboarding of new use cases and contribute to platform documentation and engineering standards.

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Informatics, or related discipline

Tools

Kong

IBM API Connect/DataPower

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

OpenAPI

Python

Lua

IdP integration

Job description

Nordea Group Technology is modernizing its API platforms and building an enterprise AI Gateway to enable secure, scalable AI services across the bank. This hands-on platform engineering role focuses on design, build, and operation of gateway capabilities with a strong emphasis on Terraform, OpenAPI, and CI/CD.

You will work with Kong and other gateway technologies, implement reusable patterns, and collaborate with architects, security, risk, and compliance in a regulated banking environment.