Solution Architect with Data Engineering Experience

Nordea; Gdynia; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a full-time Solution Architect with data engineering experience to join the Customer Engagement Domain in Corporate Technology. The role spans Poland and Finland, and you will shape data and solution architecture across multiple teams, ensuring regulatory compliance and scalable designs.

You will collaborate with data engineers, domain architects, and developers to translate business needs into technical solutions, drive governance, and contribute to the modernization of our

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Data Architecture or Tech Lead roles.
• Experience with data warehouses and modern BI tools.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable architectures with governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data architecture and solution architecture across technologies and applications
• Collaborate with domain architects, tech lead, data engineers and developers to ensure adherence to target architecture
• Drive architectural documentation and governance processes
• Define data architecture patterns for sourcing, transformation, storage and consumption
• Collaborate with multiple engineering and product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Provide architectural guidance and best practices to delivery teams

Skills

Solution Architecture

Data Architecture

Stakeholder Collaboration

Regulatory & Governance

AI Architecture

business-translation

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Airflow

PowerBI

QlikView

Java

Python

Job description

Job ID: 4947

We are looking for a full-time Solution Architect with data engineering experience to join us in Customer Engagement Domain for Corporate Technology in Nordea.

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

We are the Customer Engagement Service Domain within Nordea's Corporate Service Area in Group Technology. Our mission is to deliver best in class omnichannel corporate customer experience through sustainable solutions, 360-degree customer insights and secure technology solutions. We build and operate several key customer engagement applications, such as customer onboarding, engagement reporting, CRM and BI solutions. You will join us at an exciting time where we are modernizing our technology landscape, strengthening our data foundation and accelerating adoption of AI.

This role is based in Finland and Poland.

What You’ll Be Doing

As the Solution Architect in service domain, you will work across multiple teams and applications. You will play a key part in shaping solution architecture and data architecture and serve as a vital link between architecture governance and delivery teams. You will help design solutions that can support varying operating models across segments, while ensuring regulatory compliance and architectural consistency.

Your responsibilities include:

• Design and maintain data architecture and solution architecture across technologies and applications
• Collaborate and align with domain architects, tech lead, data engineer, developers to ensure adherence to target architecture and engineering best practices
• Drive architectural documentation and support the approval and governance process
• Define data architecture patterns for sourcing, transformation, storage and consumption
• Collaborate with multiple engineering and product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Provide architectural guidance and best practices to delivery teams

Who You Are

This is the right role for you, if you have:

• A technology-agnostic mindset
• Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder collaboration skills
• Ability to context-switch across discussions and provide right solution recommendations
• Curiosity about the business domain knowledge and the ability to create an overview of a complex setup
• A high sense of ownership, proactive attitude and a collaborative mindset
• Ability to engage in business and technical discussions and guide respective teams towards effective solutions
• Show curiosity and adaptability in the rapidly evolving AI landscape

Your background and skills include:

• Preferably 7+ experience as Solution Architect, Data Architect or Tech lead across multiple technologies
• Ability to understand business terms, requirements and translate them into scalable, maintainable solution designs by adhering to Nordea Group Architecture principles, target technology stacks
• Proven ability to produce clear architectural documentation
• Hands-on experience with Datawarehouse, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow and BI platforms such as PowerBI, Qlikview or similar
• Programming experience in language as Java, Python is a plus
• AI architect experience is a plus

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.

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. 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.

Only for candidates in Finland:

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

Only for candidates in Poland:

In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter 'GDPR'. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp.

The administrator of your personal data is: Nordea Bank Abp operating in Poland through its Branch, address: Aleja Edwarda Rydza Śmiglego 20, 93-281 Łodź. Your personal data will be processed for the recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. You have a right to access your personal data, right to rectify and right to delete. Disclosing the personal data in the scope specified by the provisions of Polish Labour Code from 26 June 1974 and executive acts are mandatory. Providing personal data is necessary to conduct the recruitment processes. The request for the deletion of your personal data means resignation from further participation in recruitment processes and causes the immediate removal of your application. Detailed information concerning processing of your personal data can be found at: https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf

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