IT Architect for Wealth Management, Nordics or Poland

Nordea is a leading Nordic universal bank. We are helping our customers realise their dreams and aspirations – and we have done that for 200 years. We want to make a real difference for our customers and the communities where we operate – by being a strong and personal financial partner.

Job ID: 5501
Work can be more fun if you are not the only one!
In the Asset & Wealth Management Architecture Team, we take pride working together as a team, supporting each other on our individual deliverables while having fun, transferring knowledge and care about each other along the way.
If that sounds like you, and you’re looking for a career change and/or a new area to broaden your knowledge, look no further!
At Nordea, we know our customers’ needs are changing – and we’re deeply committed to meeting them with the financial solutions of tomorrow. We’re creating an agile environment where we’re harnessing the power of technology – one where you can make an impact. So bring your skills, ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger.
About this opportunity

Welcome to the Asset & Wealth Mgmt Architecture Team. We support and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic architectural view and structured understanding of the bank and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy. As a Solution Architect, you’ll play a valuable role in proactively drive the creation of the IT architecture needed to support and direct development initiatives.

What you’ll be doing:
* Provide detailed solution design and architectural leadership for agile release trains that includes creation of content relating to business, application, data, process and technology architecture viewpoints and artefacts such as High-Level Design (HLD) artefacts
* Be accountable for developing transition and target architectures that provide explicit guidance and steering for initiatives
* Articulate benefits and drawbacks of various design options and recommend solutions that deliver the most business value while limiting technical debt
* You’ll join a team of experienced architects that has a central role in accelerating the savings journey for the bank. The role is based in Sweden, Finland or Norway

The role is based in Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Poland.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:
* Have the ability to work with engineers, developers, project managers, as well as C-level executives to demonstrate Group Architecture’s value proposition, and align on architecture recommendations
* Communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation and explain complex concepts in clear and understandable ways to build understanding
* Have experience and knowledge about microservices, API design and Cloud
* Keep focus on own continuous development and learning as well as mentor others to build knowledge and improve overall effectiveness

Your experience and background:
* Demonstrated ability to drive development of target and transition architectures and to craft fit-for-purpose solution design content that provides explicit guidance for projects and initiatives
* Demonstrated experience with integration technologies, methods and architecture patterns to support batch, real-time and near-real-time data integration to support analytical and reporting use cases
* Experience in modernising integration landscape using traditional integration and messaging/streaming technologies such as IBM MQ, Kafka and Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
* Ability to communicate technical concepts in simple terms; must be comfortable presenting solution design concepts and guiding solution design discussions / sessions
* Demonstrated experience working with agile methodology like SAFe
* Have experience and knowledge from software/IT development

Are you ready to embark on a learning journey where we lead the way and push the limits in transforming the future of banking? Let’s get in touch!
Next steps

Submit your application no later than 19/06/2022.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

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