Senior Solution Architect for Scalable FinTech Systems

Nordea; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea invites a senior Solution Architect to bridge business and technology, combining hands-on design with architectural leadership across development teams to deliver scalable, compliant financial solutions.

The role sits within the Standardized Corporate Loans agile release train, guiding architecture runway, driving modern patterns like microservices and event-driven designs while upholding security, risk, and data governance in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience with guiding development teams.
• Strong hands‑on experience with software architecture and system design.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems and service-based architectures.
• Ability to communicate architecture using modelling techniques (UML, C4, data models) to audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture runway for the Standardized Corporate Loans agile release train and support teams in designing complex, business-critical software solutions.
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs effectively to both business stakeholders and engineering teams, adapting the level of detail to the audience.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, robust, and compliant technical solutions.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and data governance requirements in a highly regulated financial environment.
• Actively participate in solution design and software development, providing hands‑on guidance and reviews.
• Drive adoption of modern architectural approaches, including microservices, monolith, and event-driven architectures.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews, identify technical risks early, and mitigation actions.

Skills

Solution architecture

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Microservices

UML Modeling

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

Cloud-native architectures

APIs

Camunda

Temporal

Zeebe

Job description

Nordea invites a senior Solution Architect to bridge business and technology, combining hands-on design with architectural leadership across development teams to deliver scalable, compliant financial solutions.

The role sits within the Standardized Corporate Loans agile release train, guiding architecture runway, driving modern patterns like microservices and event-driven designs while upholding security, risk, and data governance in a regulated environment.