Enterprise Architect for Corporate Platform

Nordea Bank Abp; Województwo pomorskie; Hybrid; PLN 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea Bank Abp is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape business and technology solutions for Corporate Banking and related areas. You will drive architectures for payments, cash management, and corporate lending in a global team, influencing strategy and governance.

You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders, lead architecture assignments, and coach other architects, while operating in a hybrid setup with international teams across Helsinki or Gdańsk.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise architecture for payments domains.
• Ability to influence senior management and cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of governance and architecture frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop architecture visions and target architectures for business and technology.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape solutions in payments areas.
• Govern architecture governance and approval processes across projects.
• Lead enterprise architecture assignments across service areas.
• Represent Architecture in steering committees and governance forums.
• Support PoC and procurement of new software and technology.
• Coach less senior architects and mentor peers in relevant areas.
• Work across all architectural disciplines at various abstraction levels.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Technology Strategy

Architecture Governance

Payments domain knowledge

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

UML

Architecture modeling tools

Job description

Would you like to play a key role in shaping the future of Corporate Banking and our core banking platforms? We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to define and drive business and technology solutions in this critical area. At Nordea, we are transforming our corporate core platforms to support scalable, resilient and future-ready banking services. This is a significant change journey – and you will be at the centre of it. Working closely with international teams, you will influence strategic direction, strengthen architecture practices and contribute to long-term value creation for the bank. Welcome to the Corporate and Transactions Architecture Team. We add value by working closely with senior management and all other stakeholders on the business side as well as the technology side on translating business trends and new regulation into actionable initiatives and fit‑for‑purpose solutions. As the Enterprise Architect, you’ll play a valuable role by understanding changing business strategies and requirements, by bringing your technology competence to the table and by merging these two into design of well architected, user friendly and cost effective solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with other architects, business and technology stakeholders on developing Architecture Visions and Target & Transition Architectures for various parts of the business and the technology landscape with a main focus on the payments related area;
• Support the various execution structures and development teams building the solutions with architecture and governance/approval processes;
• Join and/or run enterprise architecture assignments going across several Service Areas;
• Represent Architecture in various steering committees and other governance foras;
• Support proof-of-concept and procurement processes of new software and technology;
• Manage the architecture elements of new technology adoption processes;
• Support and coach less senior architects in the relevant areas;
• Work with all four architectural disciplines and at all abstraction levels;
• Work with all business lines related Corporate customers, but the main focus will be Corporate Banking and closely related areas like cash management and corporate lending.

You’ll join an experienced team where the members combined have a broad and deep knowledge of the business, of technology and of all the architecture disciplines. This role is open in Helsinki or Gdańsk. We work in a hybrid model (60 % onsite, 40 % remote), combining office collaboration with flexible remote work.