Software Architect - Tieto Banktech (m/f/d)

Facade Today; Norge (OK); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Open culture

Work-life balance

Hybrid work model

Curiosity & learning

Job summary

Tieto Banktech is seeking a Software Architect for its Card Issuing unit in Bergen. You will help modernize and scale our modular Cards platform, with experience in payment card tech and cloud platforms (AWS).

You will contribute to strategic initiatives including AI and data analytics, and potentially serve as Customer Architect for strategic clients. You will join a dynamic team responsible for architecture governance, ensuring security and compliance while driving architectural excellence

Qualifications

• Experience as an architect or technology with hands-on expertise leading complex modernization projects with API ecosystems.
• Lead cross-functional teams and architect communities, fostering collaboration across technology, product and compliance.
• Operationalize architecture governance, presenting to boards and ensuring security/compliance alignment.
• Agile mindset and results orientation, driving innovation and strategic technology roadmaps.
• Ability to take on Customer Architect role for large strategic customers over time.
• Eagerness to contribute to a large, dynamic organization with architectural tasks ahead.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a team with product and system responsibility to Card solutions.
• Participate in migration from legacy to cloud-native services, ensuring resilience and compliance.
• Develop and roll out a secure, scalable API developer portal for onboarding and integration.
• Contribute to enterprise architect team and architecture boards, upholding principles and standards.
• Participate in solution reviews to ensure alignment with security and compliance requirements.
• Communicate artifacts, decision logs and updates to maintain transparency across teams.

Skills

Architect experience

APIs ecosystems

Cross-functional leadership

Architecture governance

Agile mindset

Customer Architect role

Cloud modernization

Job description

Job Description

About us

We are looking for a Software Architect who wants to be part of Tieto Banktech in Card Issuing unit. Tieto Banktech powers some of the Nordics’ most trusted banking systems with secure, reliable, and scalable solutions. Using automation, data, AI, and cloud, supported by hands-on guidance, we help banks modernize their core, strengthen trust, and deliver greater impact across the banking experience.

As Software Architect for the Card Issuing unit, you will play a key role in modernizing and scaling our modular Cards platform. We are looking for someone with experience in payment card technology and/or deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS. Our cloud transformation is a key enabler for expanding beyond the Nordics, delivering scalable and resilient solutions to Tier 1 banks across Central Europe and the UK.

Over time, you will also contribute to strategic initiatives such as AI and advanced data analytics. You may take on the role of Customer Architect for key strategic customers, ensuring architectural quality across sales engagements and project deliveries.

At Tieto Banktech, you'll join a dynamic organization with broad opportunities to influence our technology landscape and grow into new architecture roles across Card Issuing and the wider business.

When joining Tieto Banktech as a Software Architect you will:

• Participate in a team with product and system responsibility to Tieto Card solutions.
• Participate in the migration from legacy to cloud-native services, ensuring resilience, scalability, and compliance.
• Participate in the development and rollout of a new secure, scalable API developer portal, enabling efficient onboarding and integration for both internal and external developers.
• Actively contribute as a member of the enterprise architect team and participate in architecture boards, collaborating to set and uphold architecture principles and standards.
• Participate in solution reviews, ensuring that all proposed solutions align with architecture principles, security, and compliance requirements.
• Communicate clearly by producing and sharing artifacts, decision logs, architecture overviews, and stakeholder updates to maintain transparency and alignment across teams.
• Foster a culture of architectural excellence and continuous improvement within the team and across the organization.

Who We Are Looking For Someone With

• Experience as an architect or technology with hands-on expertise leading complex modernization projects with API ecosystems.
• Being able to lead cross-functional teams and architect communities, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement across technology, product, and compliance domains.
• Experience operationalizing architecture governance, presenting to boards/steering groups, and ensuring alignment with architecture principles, security, and compliance requirements.
• Agile mindset and results orientation, with a passion for driving innovation and delivering on strategic technology roadmaps.
• Ability and motivation to take on the Customer Architect role for large strategic customers over time, supporting deep-dive sales processes and ensuring quality in project deliveries.
• Eagerness to contribute to a large, dynamic organization with many interesting and important architecture tasks on the horizon.

We offer

• We offer you professional growth, meaningful projects, open culture and an outstanding work-life balance!
• We offer you an opportunity to create the future of a growing, fast-developing and important sector.
• We believe that our organizational culture is an important part of enabling you to be successful.
• We provide a flexible hybrid work model as part of our culture and way of working.
• Finally, we also believe in curiosity and learning as a lifestyle where you need to unlearn and relearn every day as new possibilities emerge.

Additional Information

At Tieto, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, genders (m/f/d), and walks of life to join our team, as we believe that this fosters an inspiring workplace and fuels innovation.Our commitment to openness, trust, and diversity is at the heart of our mission to create digital futures that benefit businesses, societies, and humanity.

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Location: Bergen.