Senior IT Analyst - Trading Systems

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 looking for an IT Analyst (Trading) – Senior / Expert to strengthen our Equity DevOps area with a full-time permanent employment agreement.

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

Meet the Equity DevOp team. Our role is to to ensure stable operations of business-critical equity trading platforms that process up to a billion transactions daily for trading desks across Nordea. You will be part of an Equity DevOps team within the Application Maintenance capability and work closely with traders, developers and vendors across Nordea.

Location: Gdańsk (3 days/week in office). Area: Equity DevOps / Application Maintenance.

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Managing and supporting business critical equity trading applications in production

• Acting as first point of contact for trading desks for trading and data related issues

• Handling complex incidents across multiple teams and technology areas

• Working according to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes

• Ensuring system stability during high volume and volatile market conditions

• Maintaining and extending monitoring, alerting and observability

• Driving automation and operational improvements

• Creating and maintaining operational and technical documentation

• Working closely with traders, developers and vendor support teams

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are comfortable working in high-pressure, production-critical trading environments and are proactive, accountable, and self-organized. You balance operational responsibility with improvement work and communicate effectively with business stakeholders.

Your background and skills include: 

• Experience supporting business critical trading applications in a fast paced environment

• Understanding of Order Management Systems / Electronic Trading, or strong personal interest

• Experience working with Incident, Problem and Change Management (ITIL or similar)

• Understanding of application lifecycle and production support

• Interest in automation and reducing recurring operational tasks

• Curiosity about how electronic and automated trading systems operate end to end

Technical Stack / Skills:

• Windows and Linux – hands on operational experience

• Python – hands on operational experience

• PowerShell – hands on operational experience

• FIX protocol – intermediate or basic understanding

• SQL – intermediate (analysis and troubleshooting)

• Monitoring & observability tools such as Geneos, Grafana or similar

• Exposure to electronic and automated trading environments

• Front Arena or Murex experience welcome (but not mandatory) 

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 15/11/2026.

Please note: This role is performed in two weekday shifts (07:00 – 15:00 or 10:00 – 18:00) and requires 3 days per week in our Gdańsk or Warsaw office.

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.