Application Database Expert (Temporary position)

Job ID: 5896

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 an Application Database Expert to be a temporary member of our Digital Delivery engineering team to contribute to our engineering journey.

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.

The position is located in Helsinki, Finland. This is a temporary position until August 2027.

About our team

Meet the Digital Delivery Engineering team. We are a team of dedicated and highly skilled specialists providing platform services to Nordea's Digital service area.

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Provide expert support to Digital application teams in SQL query design, optimisation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. 
• Design, implement, and maintain stored procedures for the Account Transaction Store. 
• Support migration of application databases from on-premises databases to Google cloud platform (GCP) 
• Manage and optimize cloud database resources for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. 
• Monitor database performance proactively and implement performance tuning strategies. 
• Collaborate with Database experts, platform engineers, developers, and architects to improve applications and engineering practices.

Who you are

This is an opportunity for you to become part of an enthusiastic and dedicated Nordic team that develops products and services in a bid to make Nordea a relationship bank of the future, by delivering exciting new digital solutions for our customers

Your background and skills include:

• 8+ years of experience working with enterprise database platforms and performance optimisation.
• Strong expertise in at least one major database platform (DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Proficiency in writing stored procedures.
• Ability to improve database Performance.
• Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Eager to learn and to solve challenges.
• Fluency in communicating in English.

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!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 30/09/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Ganesh Katta at ganesh.katta@nordea.com.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

• Preliminary CV selection
• Phone conversation with the recruiter
• Online interview with the hiring leader
• Background check

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. Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.