Senior IT Analyst, DRT Data Engineering team

Nordea; Warszawa, Gdynia; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea seeks an experienced Data Analyst to perform hands-on data and requirements analysis within a complex setting. You will elicit and translate requirements, map data, model solutions, and contribute to application design and architecture.

You will collaborate with product owners, design data pipelines (near real-time and analytics), and promote analytical excellence while communicating across international teams. Strong English is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of designing data-intensive solutions and architectures.
• Experience in payment domain knowledge (ISO20022, SEPA, Swift).
• Ability to elicit requirements and translate into specs.
• Experience with AI tools and driving AI-driven solutions.
• Excellent SQL skills and English communication, with international collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements with stakeholders.
• Translate requirements into implementation specifications with product owners.
• Communicate clearly with diverse stakeholders and align objectives.
• Design data mappings, models, and solution architecture.
• Develop near real-time data pipelines and traditional analytics pipelines.
• Perform quantitative data analysis and recommend solutions.
• Collaborate with developers and test engineers.
• Build relationships and promote best practices across teams.
• Document requirements and ensure quality improvements.
• Access complex datasets and perform statistical analysis.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Team player

English communication

Tools

Snowflake

MSSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

REST

Jenkins

Maven

JUnit

Job description

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and driving 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.

About this opportunity

To strengthen our team, we are looking for an experienced Data Analyst (Expert IT Analyst) who has skills to do hands-on data and requirement analysis work. The right candidate also understands other aspects of software development: Are we making decisions within our architectural vision? Are we able to improve our tech stack? Do we simplify our solutions? Are we focusing on the right things?

What you'll be doing:

• Eliciting requirements (functional and non-functional) by collaborating with different stakeholders in a complex environment. Our vision is to go beyond requirements and understand purpose
• Interacting with product owners and stakeholders to clarify, elicit, and translate requirements into implementation specifications
• Communicating effectively both orally and in writing to align the wide range of stakeholders on shared objectives
• Data mapping, data modeling, solution design, and working with information architects
• Contributing to solution design, maintainability, and architecture of applications
• Designing both near real-time data pipelines and pipelines for traditional analytics
• Performing quantitative data analysis to understand identified issues, and explaining implications and recommending solutions
• Collaborating with developers and test engineers
• Engaging with many different stakeholders. The person we are looking for is communicative and has skills to build relationships
• Taking responsibility for requirements documentation (including use cases) and quality improvement
• Accessing complex and distributed datasets and performing statistical analysis
• Promoting analytical excellence by influencing colleagues, challenging assumptions/old ways of working, and promoting best practices across teams

Who you are

• Are a team player who takes ownership, builds cross-functional relationships, and loves sharing knowledge
• Have a consultant mindset – actively participate in multiple initiatives at once
• Can communicate constructively, and contribute to a productive work environment and good atmosphere in the team
• Are an experienced analyst, always seeking the best solution

Your experience and background:

• 5 years of experience in designing data intensive solutions, data architectures, and integration patterns
• Knowledge and hands-on experience in the payment domain (ISO20022 standard, SEPA, and Swift messages) and the dynamics of the banking sector
• Understanding of the importance of requirement elicitation techniques and analysis
• Expertise in ensuring that business requirements are translated into functional and non-functional specifications
• Experience with AI (Copilot, LLM, and agentic solutions) and the ability to drive new ways of working in our ambition to adopt AI to deliver faster and more automated solutions
• Excellent skills in SQL (Snowflake, MSSQL, or similar RDBMS)
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, and experience with international collaboration with different stakeholder groups and cultures

It is beneficial if you have:

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (Snowflake/Azure/Google)
• Understanding of practices like domain-driven design, event-sourcing architecture patterns, microservices architecture, and clean code
• Understanding of CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, Maven, and JUnit, and experience building distributed, highly available, and high throughput applications
• Experience with scalable data products and the concept of removing barriers for users in becoming data driven
• Experience with participating in building agentic solutions

The role is based in Finland or Poland.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than03/10/2026.