Enterprise Architect, Service Area Retail Products & Core

Nordea; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to drive the target architecture for Retail Products & Core services. You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders and act as a sparring partner for ongoing change initiatives, guiding architecture governance across a large portfolio of critical applications.

The role requires strong leadership, firsthand knowledge of architecture disciplines, and the ability to translate high level business strategies into executable

Qualifications

• Proven expertise within enterprise architecture and high level solution design.
• Ideally strong understanding of the financial sector.
• Bachelor or Master in computer science, engineering or similar combined with several years of experience working with architecture disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders in developing target and transition architectures that will drive our enterprise architecture forward to support the overall business strategy.
• Join domain leadership teams with business and technology counterparts.
• Build a collaborative space with solution architects & lead developers to ensure that architecture governance is a natural and integral part of the way we build solutions.
• Guide and review high level solution designs ensuring alignment with target & transition architectures, strategies, principles and reference architectures.
• Provide leadership & guidance to delivery teams and engage as a key sparring partner at multiple levels, including topics on architecture, data modelling, integration patterns, API design, data solutions, governance and more.
• Join project steering committees and various governance forums to ensure architectural alignment and direction.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution design

Education

Bachelor or Master in computer science, engineering or similar

Job description

Job ID: 6443

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

Job ID: 6443

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

We are looking for a full-time Enterprise Architect to drive the architecture for our Digital services, in close collaboration with business and technology counterparts.

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We're not just a bank, we're a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About Our Team

Welcome to Retail, Wealth & Markets Architecture! We are a team of experienced Enterprise Architects, working closely together with stakeholders across the business and technology organization supporting the entire bank across customer segments. We drive strategic architecture work while supporting ongoing execution initiatives with architectural guidance and steering.

The Retail Products & Core service area provides services to our Personal Banking organization, including core banking products and capabilities such as deposits, mortgages, consumer finance, as well as the underlying platforms that support them.

As enterprise architect, you will drive the target architecture for the area and build the roadmaps to get us there. In parallel to the strategic work, you will act as a sparring partner for ongoing change initiatives, governing the architecture for a large portfolio of business critical applications.

You’ll join a team of experienced architects with broad and deep knowledge of the business, the technology and the architecture. The role is based in Finland or Poland.

Main responsibilities in this role

• Work with business and technology stakeholders in developing target and transition architectures that will drive our enterprise architecture forward to support the overall business strategy.
• Join domain leadership teams with business and technology counterparts.
• Build a collaborative space with solution architects & lead developers to ensure that architecture governance is a natural and integral part of the way we build solutions.
• Guide and review high level solution designs ensuring alignment with target & transition architectures, strategies, principles and reference architectures.
• Provide leadership & guidance to delivery teams and engage as a key sparring partner at multiple levels, including topics on architecture, data modelling, integration patterns, API design, data solutions, governance and more.
• Join project steering committees and various governance forums to ensure architectural alignment and direction.

Who You Are

If you're passionate about designing strategic enterprise architectures for banking services and love collaborating with solution architects to solve complex challenges with elegant, implementable solutions, then this is the role for you!

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have strong communication and collaboration skills and are able to interact seamlessly with many different parts of the organisation and at all levels.
• Master the architectural disciplines and have the ability to take high level business strategies and objectives and transform them to tangible and executable architectures.
• Are a team player but also able to work well on your own when required.

Your experience and background

• Proven expertise within enterprise architecture and high level solution design.
• Ideally strong understanding of the financial sector.
• You probably have a Bachelor or a Master in computer science, engineering or similar combined with several years of experience working with architecture disciplines.

What We Offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growthin one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Our way of working - We believe in bringing people together and want our offices to remain a cornerstone of the company. Our offices are where we connect, collaborate, learn from one another and build our culture. Therefore, as a principle, we work mostly from the office.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Only for candidates in Finland:

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

For candidates in Poland:

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