Data Architect: ETL, Integration & Governance

Nordea; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea Bank Abp, operating in Poland, seeks a Database Expert to design, document and improve trusted data foundations across modern data platforms and integrated systems. The role is offered as a full-time employment agreement within Group Technology and supports a hybrid working model.

The ideal candidate will craft scalable data models, ensure data quality, and collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers to enable secure, efficient data flows across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Design efficient database schemas, business-aligned data models, data dictionaries and technical documentation covering integration points and data flows.
• Improve database reliability, performance and security by proposing optimization techniques, validation rules, access controls, backup and recovery approaches, and error handling mechanisms.
• Design data ingestion, transformation and quality-control patterns that standardize, clean and validate data from multiple sources, including automated workflows for recurring processing.
• Support integration across systems by designing message queues and event-driven patterns, ensuring data consistency, troubleshooting synchronization issues and collaborating with internal and external teams.
• Shape data initiatives into manageable work packages by estimating effort, defining timelines and helping set the technical roadmap for data infrastructure.

Job description

Nordea Bank Abp, operating in Poland, seeks a Database Expert to design, document and improve trusted data foundations across modern data platforms and integrated systems. The role is offered as a full-time employment agreement within Group Technology and supports a hybrid working model.

The ideal candidate will craft scalable data models, ensure data quality, and collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers to enable secure, efficient data flows across the organisation.