Data Scientist, FX Data & Insights

Job ID: 2994

Would you like to play an important role in our journey towards further automation and data driven decision making within FX trading and sales? We are now looking for a data scientist to join the FX Data  & Insights team on shaping and implementing the future Explore, analyse, and apply predictive modelling across the FX franchise to uncover actionable insights and recommendations from data.

About our team

Welcome to the FX Data & Insights team. Our mission is to deliver high-quality and actionable insights by delivering, analysing and modelling data to support the FX franchise. To achieve this, we rely on a robust data foundation enabled by automated pipelines, MLOps practices, and strong data governance. We support both the trading and sales teams by analysing the profitability of our FX offerings using advanced data analysis techniques. In addition, we provide performance insights to our developers to help optimize the FX platform.

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.  

What you’ll be doing

As the Data Scientist on the MBT FX team, you will play a critical role in shaping the data strategy and automation efforts that drive the future of our FX franchise.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, and other data scientists to define impactful projects that support FX trading and sales.
• Take the lead on the development and implementation of data-driven and automation initiatives that enable insight and enhance decision-making.
• Working on complex time-series datasets, creating data and machine learning pipelines for clustering, classification and regression.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of our data foundation by ensuring high data quality, integrity, and scalability to support analytical needs.

You will be joining a team of pro-active and committed colleagues, with a strong sense of ownership, seated on the largest trading floor in Scandinavia. The role is based in Helsinki. 

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you:

• Have excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify and translate business objectives into problems that can be solved by applying data science.
• Are a dedicated team player who can communicate and collaborate with both developers and business stakeholders.
• Are able to see the big picture, yet still have a keen eye for the detail.
• Have a curious mindset, self-driven, innovative and feel motivated by working in a fast paced environment

Your background and skills include: 

• A master’s degree within the disciplines of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or any other relevant field
• Experience with analysing large data sets and applying both traditional statistical modelling and machine learning practices to provide insights.
• Experience with development and implementation of quantitative or statistical models.
• Professional coding skills in Python and strong experience with SQL.
• Familiarity with tech stacks, like Git, Artifactory, Docker, etc. and experience exposing models via APIs is a plus, but not a requirement.

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 no later than 04/03/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Andreas Nøjgaard on andreas.nojgaard@nordea.com or Lars Von Moos on lars.von.moos@nordea.com.

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.