Senior IT Developer with IBMi/Cobol knowledge

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 a Senior IT Developer to work on global and large scale initiatives in Nordea. This is an opportunity for you to join a team of requirement engineering specialists who contribute to the success of key initiatives and projects in Nordea. Your main responsibility is to bring value to our business partners and customers in the International Corporate Branches area, supporting the Payments team, applications and customers.

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 Application Management team in International Corporate Branches (ICB) Technology. We add value by providing a fit-for-purpose analysis to design innovative solutions to create great customer experiences. As the Senior IT Developer, you’ll play a valuable role in designing, developing, maintaining and modernising business-critical applications within the ICB Hub technology landscape. You will act as a key contributor in transforming business requirements into robust technical solutions while ensuring stability, quality, and operational excellence. ICB Technology is a newly established Technology Area in Nordea Technology with the purpose to deliver technology services to our business stakeholders but also drive the business process automation agenda. Our team is a unique combination of different skillsets. Some are more technically-oriented to work with sophisticated data diagrams and others have stronger facilitating skills for coaching. You’ll join a team where people are the most important and work is not only a place to go.

What you'll be doing

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Developing, maintaining and enhancing business-critical applications running on the IBM i (AS400) platform

• Designing and implementing solutions using RPG, COBOL, CL and DB2 technologies

• Collaborating with business analysts, architects, testers and application specialists to deliver sustainable solutions

• Participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation

• Driving application modernisation, technical debt reduction and continuous improvement initiatives

• Providing L2/L3 support and assisting in incident and problem resolution for critical production systems

• Contributing to integration initiatives involving APIs, messaging and surrounding banking systems

The role is based in Gdansk, Poland, with hybrid model of working. This is a permanent full-time role, and preferred starting time is between February and April 2026. Please indicate your local work permit in the CV.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you:

• Have strong technical expertise and analytical skills with the ability to understand complex business processes and translate them into maintainable technical solutions

• Have extensive experience developing and supporting applications on IBM i (AS400), including RPG, COBOL, CL and DB2 technologies

• Are self-driven, team player, with very good communication and collaboration skills

• Are proactive, detail-oriented and quality driven

• Are familiar with Agile way of working and methods (SAFe, Scrum, XP, Kanban)

Your background and skills include:

• 5+ years of experience in IBMi (AS400) application development and maintenance

• Strong experience with RPG IV / RPGLE, COBOL, CL and DB2

• Experience with modern development practices, source control, and testing and deployment process

• Experience designing and supporting high-available and critical systems on IBMi (AS-400)

• Experience working within banking, payments, financial services or other mission-critical enterprise environments 

• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, and familiar with international collaboration

• Experience of using Jira, Confluence Experience in working in IT industry

It would be ideal if you also have:

• Experience developing or integrating REST APIs, JSON interfaces, messaging solutions or other enterprise integrations

• Knowledge of the banking sector and payment domain, or at least the financial sector (sure an advantage but not required)

• Strong SQL and DB2 knowledge, including query optimisation and database design

• Experience or knowledge of APIs, Data Mapping, Data Migration and Process Modelling

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!