Product Owner to Nordea Open Banking

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: 18645 

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner that can join a team of business professionals that work with applying EU’s new open banking requirements. If you thrive in a high performing environment, have technical understanding, wants to work with product development and ensure that our customers get the best experience when using our services, this is a great opportunity.  

At Nordea, we know our customers’ needs are changing and we’re deeply committed to meeting them with the financial solutions of tomorrow. Nordea’s Open Banking team with experienced and passionate professionals working with delivering our market leading API solutions are looking for an additional agile product owner. We are recognised as a leader in Open Banking and our ambition is to continue on that path as the market matures and new regulations changes the financial industry. 

So bring your skills, ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow, make your mark on something bigger and be a part of the financial industry’s transformation. 

About this opportunity

Nordea Open Banking provides an industry leading API platform and develops and operates APIs to serve customers’ needs of financial services in many different channels and for different use cases.  We provide payments and account information services through Application Programming Interfaces that are required by the Payment Service Directive 2. We play a central role in Nordea to comply with new regulations in the Financial Data and Payment Package where the bank will build new services, further enhance the platform capabilities and support new product areas to expose data externally. 

What you’ll be doing:

As a Product Owner you have the business responsibility for development teams and lead the work for a specific area or product to achieve our business goals. You’ll play a valuable role by being the bridge between business and IT as the product expert - defining and prioritising the teams backlog by translating the regulatory requirement, take in the needs of the various consumers and product areas to define with the team what should be done.

In the role you will work with both internal and external stakeholders, such as internal product units providing key components of the end service, the support and sales unit to provide product expertise, external consumers such as developers, fintech’s, big companies and institutions to ensure they can use our services.

You’ll join a Nordic team of experiences business people where the role is based in Stockholm, Oslo or Helsinki.

More information about Nordea Open Banking can be found on https://www.nordeaopenbanking.com or read our latest blog here link.

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 expect you to have a driver personality with passion for development and always act with the customer’s needs in mind. The position requires you to be honest and dependable, prestige-less and willing to speak up even when it’s difficult. If you are motivated by achieving results through collaboration with others rather than on your own, are passionate about doing a great job and want to be surrounded by other highly skilled and dedicated people this is the right place. 

Your experience and background: 

For the role you need work experience and knowledge in business, experience from working with corporate customer solutions or payment services and by so have a proven understanding of industry trends and customer needs. Understanding both from a technical and business angle is a prerequisite and naturally an advantage if you have a conceptual understanding of API’s.

It is a must to have an academic degree within business or IT and a valid work permit in the country of employment. The position requires that you have confident communication in English, spoken and written to be able to communicate complex messages and constructively challenge and guide stakeholders.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 31/08/2023. 

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.

Only for candidates in Sweden - for union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com

Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.