Solution Architect, Standardized Corporate Loans team

Your responsibilities

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and driving 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 a pragmatic Solution Architect who can operate comfortably between business and technology. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with architectural leadership, enjoys working closely with development teams, and can translate complex business challenges into scalable and maintainable solutions.

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 Standardized Corporate Loans agile release train, consisting of 5 teams. Our role is to evolve end-to-end loan origination and credit assessment processes with increased self-service and straight-through-processing that supports both regulatory requirements and future business capabilities.

Main responsibilities in this role:

* Define and drive the architecture runway for the Standardized Corporate Loans agile release train and support teams in designing complex, business-critical software solutions.

* Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs effectively to both business stakeholders and engineering teams, adapting the level of detail to the audience.

* Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, robust, and compliant technical solutions

* Ensure solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and data governance requirements in a highly regulated financial environment.

* Actively participate in solution design and software development, supporting teams with hands-on technical guidance, proof-of-concepts, design reviews, and critical implementation decisions.

* Drive adoption of modern architectural approaches, including microservices, monolith, and event-driven architectures

* Conduct architecture and design reviews, identify technical risks early, and actively drive mitigation actions. Support teams with logical data models and solution level design details to ensure scalability and robustness.

Our requirements

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are a solution architect who:

* Enjoys collaborating with business stakeholders to understand challenges and use them as the foundation for architectural decisions.

* Thrives on combining hands-on design work with e.g. logical data models with strategic architectural thinking.

* Eenjoys guiding teams through complex technical challenges.

* Is passionate about building scalable, maintainable solutions in a regulated enterprise environment.

Your background and skills include:

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

* 10+ years of experience in software development, including guiding development teams

* Strong hands-on experience with software architecture and system design

* Proven experience designing distributed systems and service-based architectures

* Ability to communicate architecture using appropriate modelling techniques (e.g. UML, C4 Model, sequence diagrams, data models) and present designs to both business and technical audiences.

Nice-to-have qualifications:

* Experience from the banking industry.

* Experience with event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

* Experience with Java, cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven integrations, and modern software engineering practices is considered an advantage.

* Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Pega, Camunda, Temporal, Zeebe, or similar

* Experience designing highly scalable enterprise systems

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Benefits

• Sports membership cards
• Nordea Seniority Benefit
• Wellbeing platform
• Hybrid working options
• Flexible benefits platform
• private medical care
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• integration events
• corporate gym
• corporate sports team
• retirement pension plan
• no dress code
• coffee / tea
• parking space for employees
• leisure zone
• extra social benefits
• holiday funds
• redeployment package
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives

NORDEA Bank Abp SA Oddział w Polsce

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.

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.

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