IBMi Unix Product Owner

IBMi - Unix Platform Owner (permanent position)

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 Strategic IBMi - Unix Platform Owner to take end-to-end accountability for our mission-critical, on-premise core compute ecosystem. In this role, you will define the roadmap, technical standards, and lifecycle management for our IBMi (AS/400) and enterprise Unix (primarily IBM AIX) footprints running on IBM Power hardware. You will bridge the gap between traditional enterprise computing and modern infrastructure methodologies, ensuring maximum reliability, security, and efficiency for systems that power our core business operations. 

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.

What you'll be doing

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Platform Roadmap & Lifecycle Strategy: Define and execute the multi-year technical roadmap for IBM i and AIX environments; manage OS upgrades, Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs), Service Packs, and hardware generation refreshes.

• Architecture & Resource Governance: Participate in Design, standardize, and maintain the architecture of Logical Partitions (LPARs) via HMC/PowerVM. Optimize processor shared pools, memory allocation, and virtual I/O (VIOS) mapping.

• Automation & Modernization: Modernize platform management by introducing and enforcing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and configuration management workflows using tools like Ansible for IBM i / AIX.

• Security & Compliance Governance: Own platform hardening baselines. Ensure compliance with strict on-premise sector-specific regulations (e.g., SOX, DORA) and that OS layer meets strict on-premise regulatory, audit, and vulnerability patching SLAs.

• Business Continuity & DR Strategy: Architect and validate robust High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions tailored to big-iron limitations, utilizing technologies such as PowerHA, BRMS, or hardware-based storage replication.

• TCO & Vendor Management: Act as the primary technical interface for IBM and tier-1 partners; capacity-on-demand (CoD), and vendor support escalations. 

Who you are

Your background and skills include: 

• IBM i (OS/400) Expertise: Deep knowledge of IBM i architecture, including work management, subsystem configuration, integrated DB2 for i databases, and advanced use of IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS).

• Unix & PowerVM Expertise: Advanced proficiency in IBM AIX (or equivalent enterprise Unix like Oracle Solaris/ RHEL) and PowerVM virtualization (HMC, VIOS, Live Partition Mobility - LPM).

• Enterprise Storage Integration: Strong understanding of connecting IBM Power platforms to enterprise SAN infrastructure, Fibre Channel fabrics, and storage-level replication (e.g., IBM FlashSystem/SVC).

• Scripting & Automation: Experience with traditional CL (Control Language) or KornShell scripting, combined with a modern proficiency in Python or Ansible modules for IBM Power.

• Infrastructure Product Ownership: Proven capability to run legacy/core infrastructure as a modern internal service—tracking Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), performance capacity metrics, and alignment with corporate strategy.

• Strategic Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication skills to translate complex, low-level technical risks (e.g., microcode updates, single points of failure) into clear business risk/benefit assessments for executive leadership and collaborating across InfoSec, Network, and Applications teams.

• Risk Mitigation & Change Governance: High emotional intelligence and technical confidence to manage low-risk-tolerance change management processes during critical system windows for 24/7/365 workloads. Partnering with Information Security to balance aggressive patching timelines with the Application teams' need for environment stability. 

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.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 11/11/2026. 

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 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.

If you are an external consultant interested in this role and wish to apply please contact the hiring people leader for separate instruction on how to apply.

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