Senior Legal Counsel, Technology and Sourcing Legal team

Job ID: 2663

Senior Legal Counsel (permanent position)

We are looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join Technology and Sourcing Legal team in Helsinki. The position is permanent and start date as soon as possible. This is an opportunity for you to work in an international, dynamic, and strategically important area in the financial services industry.

About our team

Meet the Technology and Sourcing Legal team. Our role is to support Nordea by delivering high-quality legal advice across a rapidly evolving digital, technical, and regulatory environment. We play a key role in identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal risks across Nordea’s technology and supplier landscape, advising on strategic technology initiatives and shaping Nordea’s legal position on ICT, data, outsourcing, cloud, and platform services, third-party risk management, operational and digital resilience, and emerging technologies including AI.

Our team in Group Legal provides legal services across the Nordea group companies and several jurisdictions within EU/EEA. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, we help enable secure, compliant and future-proof solutions and represent Nordea in discussions with authorities and external partners.

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: 

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating ICT, sourcing, outsourcing, AI-related, and other third-party agreements
• Giving advice to senior management and key stakeholders on ICT and contract law, including outsourcing, cloud, and platform services, third-party risk management, operational and digital resilience, and emerging technologies such as AI
• Participating in regulatory and industry working groups and cross-unit projects, acting as a legal subject-matter expert
• Assessing, interpreting, and supporting the implementation of new regulation, including digital operational resilience, AI governance and data-related frameworks
• Delivering legal training and guidance on technology, regulatory, and risk-related topics

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are a strong legal professional with in-depth expertise in the relevant legal areas, high integrity, and a clear sense of responsibility. You combine excellent analytical and communication skills with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset, enabling you to make sound decisions and translate complex legal matters into clear and practical advice. You work well both independently and as part of a team, approaching your work in a structured and methodical way with a positive, service-oriented attitude.

Your background and skills include: 

• Finnish master’s degree in law
• 6+ years relevant working experience as an in-house legal counsel or in a law firm
• Fluency in English and Finnish, other Nordic languages are an asset
• Previous experience in technology, data, and contract law as well as  ICT, sourcing and outsourcing agreements

It would be ideal if you also: 

• Financial services industry regulation, data protection, and authority interactions

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 09/03/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Head of Technology and Sourcing Legal Sanna Sandholm at sanna.sandholm@nordea.com.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

• Preliminary CV selection
• 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.

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