Lead Solution Architect (Retail & Mobile Payments - Nordic Wallets & eCom)

Nordea; Gdynia; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Nordea is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to shape Digital Euro capabilities within the Nordic Wallets & eCom Agile Release Train. You will drive target architectures, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security and Compliance, and ensure scalable, secure payment solutions across Nordea's Nordic ecosystem.

The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on architectural leadership, enabling AI-assisted development and governance across multiple teams in a hybrid Nordic setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Solution/Lead/Enterprise Architect.
• Strong understanding of payments and digital banking.
• Experience with wallets, mobile payments or e‑commerce payments.
• Designing large-scale payment solutions and distributed architectures.
• Experience with API platforms, event-driven architectures, cloud-native tech, security services.

Responsibilities

• Define target architectures for Digital Euro adoption and wallet/e‑commerce experiences.
• Drive architecture decisions to support the Digital Euro experiences.
• Translate business strategy into executable designs and governance.
• Lead architecture reviews and guidance to delivery teams.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security and Compliance to translate requirements into architectures.

Skills

Solution Architect

Leadership

Payments knowledge

API platforms

Cloud-native

Security

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Tools

API platforms

Event-driven architectures

Cloud-native technologies

Security and identity services

Job description

Job ID: 6920 At Nordea, our customers' expectations for simple, secure and seamless digital payment experiences are growing rapidly. Our Service Domain, Retail & Mobile Payments, plays a key role in meeting these expectations by delivering mobile payments, bill payment services and digital wallet solutions across the Nordics. Together, we enable trusted, high-quality payment experiences for millions of customers and businesses.

Job ID: 6920 At Nordea, our customers' expectations for simple, secure and seamless digital payment experiences are growing rapidly. Our Service Domain, Retail & Mobile Payments, plays a key role in meeting these expectations by delivering mobile payments, bill payment services and digital wallet solutions across the Nordics. Together, we enable trusted, high-quality payment experiences for millions of customers and businesses.

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. 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.

We are now looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to join the Retail & Mobile Payments Service Domain, to help shape future payment services with a primary focus on the Digital Euro initiative within Nordic Wallets & eCom ART.

If you're passionate about technology leadership, modern software architecture and setting the foundation for resilient solutions at scale, this role offers a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful impact while influencing the architectural direction of critical payment services used every day across the Nordic region. In this role, you will help define how Digital Euro capabilities integrate into Nordea's ecosystems.

You will work at the intersection of business strategy, customer experience, payments innovation and technology architecture, ensuring initially that future Digital Euro solutions are scalable, secure, compliant and aligned with Nordea's long‑term technology strategy.

About Our Team

Welcome to the Retail & Mobile Payments Service Domain.

As a Lead Solution Architect, you will be one of the key architecture leaders within the Nordic Wallets & eCom Agile Release Train, responsible for shaping Digital Euro capabilities and their integration into customer‑facing payment journeys.

You will work closely with Product Management, Business, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Compliance and external stakeholders to translate evolving Digital Euro requirements into practical and sustainable solution architectures.

You will play a central role in:

• Defining target architectures for Digital Euro adoption.
• Shaping future wallet and e‑commerce payment experiences.
• Establishing architecture principles and standards.
• Driving architecture alignment across Service Domains.
• Enabling AI‑assisted software engineering and modern delivery practices.
• Supporting Nordea’s transformation toward specification‑driven software delivery.

As a Lead Solution Architect, you will combine strategic thinking with deep technical expertise while remaining close to implementation realities and engineering challenges.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define and evolve the target architecture for Digital Euro capabilities within Nordic Wallets & eCom
• Drive architecture decisions supporting the target solution for Digital Euro experiences
• Assess how Digital Euro should coexist with existing payment methods and solutions
• Define architecture patterns for customer onboarding, authentication, transaction initiation, payment execution and customer support processes
• Solution architecture and strategic design into HLD, SDD and other architecture artefacts
• Translate business strategy, customer needs and regulatory requirements into executable solution designs
• Identify architecture impacts across channels, payments, security, data, APIs and operational platforms
• Support architecture governance, approval processes and technical decision-making
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance to delivery teams.
• Support the various execution structures and development teams building the solutions with architecture and governance/approval processes

Who You Are

At Nordea, we value collaboration, ownership, passion and courage. These qualities are essential as we continue modernising critical payment capabilities and serving millions of customers across the Nordics and now implementing the Digital Euro solution.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Are an experienced architect with strong technology leadership capabilities
• Can translate business strategy into practical and executable architectures
• Have strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Enjoy operating in complex and evolving environments
• Balance strategic thinking with a hands‑on understanding of implementation realities
• Are passionate about payment innovation and emerging digital payment ecosystems
• Embrace AI‑assisted ways of working while ensuring quality and governance
• Enjoy coaching architects and engineering teams

Your Experience And Background

Required:

• Extensive experience working as a Solution Architect, Lead Architect or Enterprise Architect
• Strong understanding of payments and digital banking
• Experience from wallets, mobile payments, e‑commerce payments or customer payment journeys
• Experience designing large‑scale payment solutions and distributed platform architectures
• Experience working with API platforms, event‑driven architectures, integration platforms, cloud‑native technologies, and security and identity services
• Strong knowledge of payment orchestration and customer‑facing payment journeys
• Understanding of Context Engineering concepts and their application within modern software engineering organisations
• Ability to lead architecture initiatives across multiple teams and Service Domains

Good to have:

• Understanding of Digital Euro, European payment initiatives, CBDC concepts or payment modernisation programmes
• Experience working with embedded banking, payment initiation and account reporting services
• Experience with AI‑assisted software engineering, architecture practices and engineering productivity tooling
• Experience applying Spec‑Driven Development principles and specification‑based delivery approaches

What Makes This Role Unique

As Lead Solution Architect within Nordic Wallets & eCom, you will help define how Nordea brings Digital Euro capabilities into everyday payment experiences while maintaining the security, reliability and customer trust expected from a leading Nordic bank.

Your work will influence architecture decisions, customer journeys and engineering practices that could impact millions of users across the Nordic region while helping Nordea prepare for the next generation of digital payments.

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 growth in 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.
• Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.
• 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.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

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