AI Platform Lead

Job ID: 3524

We are looking for an AI Platform Lead to drive the development and adoption of AI-powered solutions that strengthen our ability to detect and investigate financial crime. The role is permanent and can be based in Helsinki.  

About our team

Meet the AI & Machine Learning team. Our role is to improve how we detect and investigate financial crime with the help of AI and machine learning to keep our customers, Nordea and society safe. Our team is about 25 people working out of Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen as a part of the Group Financial Crime Prevention (GFCP) unit that provides financial crime prevention services to all of the bank.

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.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Define the technical strategy for the AI Platform spanning predictive, generative and agentic workflows.
• Design production-grade services, CICD pipelines and infrastructure as code with sound architecture principles & scalability.
• Collaborate with Business, Architecture and Technology stakeholders to align business priorities and technical decisions.
• Champion engineering excellence and keep abreast of emerging AI technologies.
• Weigh tradeoffs, distill technical complexity into accessible, clear communication for non-technical audience.
• Design and implement monitoring for predictive AI (drift, performance), generative AI (token usage, latency) workflows.
• Design and implement cost optimization & FinOps for AI workloads.
• Handle IT management processes such as incident management, risk and change management.
• Monitor the established operations support channels and service infrastructure provisioning & troubleshooting in line with defined SLAs.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are:

• Ambitious and enjoy bringing ideas, exploring their potential, and presenting the results.
• Passionate about ensuring production excellence in machine learning operations, ensuring both the bank’s and society's safety.
• Collaborative and thrive in cross-functional environments, comfortable working at the intersection of business and technology.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical audiences, and you’re comfortable driving work forward independently.

Your background and skills include:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience as a Cloud native expert in designing and building production grade applications and services on AWS and other cloud providers (Azure or GCP).
• Practical experience with Python development and managing complex environments with Terraform.
• Experience working with AI/ML platforms such as Amazon SageMaker, Bedrock, AgentCore and Data platforms such as S3, AWS Glue, Lake Formation.
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across multiple domains, including expectations management.

It would be ideal if you also have:

• Experience with agile methodologies and product development lifecycle. 
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, architecture and data science teams.
• Professional experience working in regulated industries i.e. Banking, Government, etc.

What we offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. 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!

Next steps

Submit your application as soon as possible as we start with interviews on ongoing basis. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Björn Hertzberg (bjorn.hertzberg@nordea.com), Head of Data Science in FCIIA.

A Background Check will be performed for the person selected for this position, including internal applicants.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

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

Only for candidates in Poland: Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:

In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter ‘GDPR’. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp.

The administrator of your personal data is: Nordea Bank Abp operating in Poland through its Branch, address: Aleja Edwarda Rydza Śmiglego 20, 93-281 Łodź. Your personal data will be processed for the recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. You have a right to access your personal data, right to rectify and right to delete. Disclosing the personal data in the scope specified by the provisions of Polish Labour Code from 26 June 1974 and executive acts are mandatory. Providing personal data is necessary to conduct the recruitment processes. The request for the deletion of your personal data means resignation from further participation in recruitment processes and causes the immediate removal of your application. Detailed information concerning processing of your personal data can be found at: https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf

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