Senior It Architect

Job ID: 22731
We are seeking for Senior IT Architect with experience in large scale enterprise IT environment to develop effective technical strategies to integrate business, information, system and technology architectures and confidently lead the design and guide implementation processes in respective initiatives.
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 Architecture Service Delivery Unit, a unified architecture service delivery capability, supporting business areas and group functions across Nordea. We are a key partner in enabling Nordea as a leading customer centric and digital bank, with reduced cost, risk and complexity, through common processes, data and systems.
What you’ll be doing: 

• Translating business functional and non-functional requirements into the solution design and creation of architecture and technical documentation
• Designing and automating architectural processes
• Defining detailed solution designs for individual architecture problem spaces
• Supporting the shaping of Epics and providing input into Capabilities and Features
• Ensuring alignment with enterprise guidelines and standards and driving architecturally significant decisions, also covering data, information and security architecture
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders and other architects supporting the various business area and group function portfolios
• Ensuring understanding of the important factors for Business and IT within own areas and to drive consensus among stakeholders on the options and trade-offs required.
• Proactively develop, guide and govern standards, principles and best practices to better achieve organisational objectives aligned with Nordea’s architecture governance framework and associated processes.
• Recognised in the organisation as having deep knowledge of across solution and technical architecture and knowledge of the business, data and IT landscape.

What we offer
You will be responsible for transforming the requirements developed by our functional analysts while transforming architectural guidelines and principles into a set of documents and architecture artefacts that can be utilized by the rest of the development team for creating a specific business solution.
You will be working with skilled, international teams in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll play a part in making Nordea truly digital. Group Architecture has a major role in Nordea’s overall objective for building the best bank that serves its customers’ changing needs – through innovative solutions, collaboration and partnering with FinTechs.
Are you ready to embark on a learning journey where we lead the way and push the limits in transforming the future of banking?
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:

• At least 3 years work experience with an excellent track record of working with architecture and technology implementation and large-scale enterprise solution architecture
• Proven Power Apps development skills
• Process oriented (including process design)
• Experience with technical architecture and understanding of modern application stacks incorporating both open-source and 3rd party vendor technologies
• Experience with integration architecture, common enterprise application integration patterns to support batch, real-time and near-real-time data integration, and related integration technologies
• Understanding of data and information architecture including data modelling and experience with common data management technologies
• Understanding of information security requirements and experience with implementation of appropriate controls as part of solutions.
• Architecture modelling experience using architecture modelling tools and notations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to guide, negotiate and build consensus and work individually or as part of a team.
• Service-minded, ambitious and eager to find solutions to tough challenges
• Fluent in English

Beneficial Additional Experience:

• Java development background
• Jira experience

If this sounds like you, get in touch!
Next steps
Please note that we will start screening applications already before job opening closes. Submit your application as soon as possible, no later than 30/03/2024.
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.