Windows Server Platform Owner

Nordea; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Opportunity to grow within a Nordic银行

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a Windows Platform Owner to take end-to-end accountability for the core on-premise Windows ecosystem. In this role, you will define the roadmap, standards, and lifecycle management for our operating system footprint across physical bare-metal servers, virtualization layers, and private cloud architectures.

You will balance hands-on architectural governance with strategic planning to ensure maximum reliability, security, and scalability for our infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience with Windows Server internals and performance analysis.
• Experience hosting Windows Server on enterprise hypervisors.
• Proficient in PowerShell, Terraform, MECM/SCCM or Intune.
• Experience with AD/Azure AD/Entra ID and GPO frameworks.
• Ability to manage TCO for licenses and EA with vendor.
• Strong cross-functional communication and influence.

Responsibilities

• Define, publish, and execute the multi-year roadmap for Windows Server platforms.
• Design, build, and govern Gold Image blueprints for bare-metal deployments and hypervisors.
• Own automated Windows provisioning pipelines and configuration management.
• Define platform security baselines and patch governance.
• Forecast compute, memory, and storage needs and plan hardware refreshes.
• Integrate identity, networking, and storage with Windows Server platforms.
• Manage vendor relationships and licensing for Microsoft products.

Skills

Enterprise Windows

On-Prem Infrastructure

Scripting & Automation

Identity & Storage

Platform Ownership

Stakeholder Influence

Lifecycle Management

Tools

PowerShell DSC

Terraform

MECM/SCCM

Intune

VMware

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

Job description

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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 seeking a Windows Platform Owner to take end-to-end accountability for our core on-premise enterprise Windows ecosystem. In this role, you will define the roadmap, technical standards, and lifecycle management for our operating system footprint across physical bare-metal servers, virtualization layers, and private cloud architectures. You will balance hands‑on architectural governance with strategic planning to ensure maximum reliability, security, and scalability for our infrastructure.

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

Our Core Engineering Team is the backbone of Nordea global technology ecosystem. We are a high‑impact group of engineers dedicated to designing, automating, and maintaining the enterprise‑scale Windows and Unix infrastructure that powers our entire organization. We don't just maintain servers; we treat infrastructure as code. Our mission is to build highly secure, resilient, and self‑healing platforms across thousands of physical, virtual, and cloud environments. We are a collaborative, forward‑thinking team that bridges the gap between traditional infrastructure and modern cloud architecture.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Platform Lifecycle & Roadmap Strategy: Define, publish, and execute the multi‑year technical roadmap for enterprise Windows Server platforms. Manage version lifecycles, core baseline configurations, and long‑term servicing channel (LTSC) migration paths to eliminate technical debt before End‑of‑Life (EOL) or End‑of‑Support (EOS) dates.
• On‑Premise Architecture & Standardization: Design, build, and govern the enterprise Windows "Gold Image" blueprints (WIM/ISO) for bare‑metal deployments and hypervisors (VMware, Openshift). Establish standardized OS profiles, registry baselines, and core subsystem configurations across the entire corporate data center footprint.
• Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration: Own the design and implementation of automated Windows provisioning pipelines and configuration management frameworks. Enforce Infrastructure as Code principles using tools like PowerShell DSC, Terraform, and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM/SCCM) to ensure configuration consistency and eliminate manual drift.
• Security, Compliance & Patch Governance: Define platform hardening baselines in alignment with Microsoft Security Baselines, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, and internal InfoSec policies via Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and Intune. Architect and oversee the automated patch deployment pipeline, ensuring vulnerabilities are remediated within strict corporate SLAs without disrupting application availability.
• Capacity, Performance & Compute Planning: Monitor and analyze enterprise‑wide Windows infrastructure telemetry to forecast future compute, memory, and storage requirements. Partner with hardware engineering team to evaluate next‑generation server technology and guide hardware refresh cycles based on platform demands.
• Identity, Networking & Storage Integration: Govern the integration standards between the Windows Server platform and centralized enterprise infrastructure. This includes robust Active Directory / Entra ID identity fabrics, core network services (Microsoft DNS, DHCP), and enterprise storage protocols.
• Vendor & Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Management: Act as the primary technical interface for Microsoft vendor. Manage Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, software assurance benefits, core‑based licensing models, and handle high‑severity technical Microsoft Premier/Unified Support escalations.

Who you are

Desirable experience and skills (you don't have to have them all, to be a good candidate)

• Enterprise Windows Expertise: Deep knowledge of Windows Server operating system internals (including Registry architecture, LSASS, and WMI/CIM providers), Performance Monitor (PerfMon) analysis, advanced crash dump analysis, and complex system initialization/boot troubleshooting.
• On‑Premise Infrastructure: Solid experience hosting Windows Server workloads on enterprise hypervisors (VMware, Hyper‑V, Azure Stack HCI) and managing physical server infrastructure hardware lifecycle interfaces (HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC).
• Scripting & Automation: Proficient in writing, auditing, and scaling advanced PowerShell modules, PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration), Terraform templates, and enterprise configuration deployment via MECM/SCCM or Intune.
• Enterprise Identity & Storage: Experience architecting and integrating core infrastructure components with enterprise Active Directory (AD), Azure AD/Entra ID, Group Policy Object (GPO) frameworks, and mapping high‑performance Windows storage via SMB/CIFS protocols and Fibre Channel SAN/NAS arrays.
• Platform Ownership Mindset: Ability to treat infrastructure as a scalable internal product, prioritizing features, upgrades, and technical debt based on business value. Experience in calculating, optimizing, and justifying the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for hardware, Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA), core‑based licensing models, and Software Assurance contracts.
• Stakeholder Influence: Strong communication skills to bridge technical execution with leadership priorities, collaborating across InfoSec, Network, and Applications teams. Act as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise vendors (Microsoft), managing Microsoft Premier/Unified Support contracts, escalations, and technical alignment. Capability to manage an infrastructure backlog, deciding when to prioritize technical debt (e.g., OS version upgrades, security baselines) versus onboarding new business capabilities.
• Lifecycle & Continuity Management: Experience architecting high‑availability (HA) via Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions tailored to on‑premise constraints. Orchestrating complex, multi‑year migration strategies for thousands of Windows servers before versions reach End of Extended Support (EOS/EOL), minimizing business disruption.

It would be ideal if you also

• Proficient in English, spoken and written B2/C1.
• Experienced working in a financial institution.

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.

Next steps

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

• Preliminary CV selection
• Online interview with the hiring leader
• Background check

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships.

We learn and develop.

We lead change.

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.

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