Solution Architect - Smart Payments in SD Nordic Instant Payments Technology (permanent position)

Job ID: 3748

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 a Solution Architect for Smart Payments in the Service Domain Nordic Instant Payments Technology.

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.

About our team  

Welcome to the Smart Payments team, which is part of the Nordic Instant Payments Technology Service Domain. Our role is to create and run some of the payment solutions of the future.

Our current focus is on request2pay (RTP) and Verification of Payee (VOP) solutions. RTP is an innovative and customer-friendly way to collect payments from our customers. VOP ensures our customers stay safe by checking and informing who they will be paying, giving them the choice to continue the payment or not.

What you’ll be doing

• Your primary objective will be designing the request2pay (RTP) and Verification of Payee (VOP) solutions of the future, focussing on Solution Architecture.
• Designing comprehensive architectural plans and solutions that address specific business problems or requirements and that are aligned with the Nordea´s target architectures
• Ensuring alignment with standards and drive architecturally significant decisions
• Creating architectural governance documents
• Explaining architectural plans to key stakeholders (e.g. developers, analysts and business experts)
• Ensuring understanding of the important factors for Business and IT within own areas and to drive consensus among stakeholders on the trade-offs required.
• Covering elements of Data, Information and Security Architecture
• Proactively participating and supporting to develop, guide and govern standards, principles and best practices to better achieve organisational objectives.
• Collaborating closely with other Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Business and IT experts

You’ll join a growing team where the customer voice and people are at our heart. The role is based in Helsinki or Tricity.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are an experienced and passionate Solution Architect always seeking the best solution, and you enjoy engaging with many different stakeholders. So, the person we are looking for, is an outgoing individual, who creates, understands and communicates solutions at the right level of detail and who is self-motivated and contributes to a good team spirit.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have strong skills and experience in IT Solution Architecture and Technical Architecture
• Take ownership with a mindset of “making things happen” 
• Have good communication skills and the ability to explain technical context to both a business and a technical audience
• Have a structured and organised way of working with the ability to deliver results with high quality
• Have an honest and problem-solving attitude

Your background and skills include:

• At least 7+ years of Solution architect experience and 15+ years of experience in IT, including strong technical integration experience
• Experience with Payments for at least 5+ years
• Knowledge and hands-on experience on creating architectures plans, designs and governance documents
• Practical knowledge of Architecture patterns and styles and knowledge how to design robust, scalable and maintainable solutions
• Practical knowledge of how to use AI to improve your and the team productivity
• Background as developer (e.g. Java) and knowledge of Software development concepts
• Proven skills to be able to work and lead in global multicultural organisation
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

It would be ideal if you also have…

• Previous experience working with BizDevOps teams in Agile/Scrum methodology
• Direct experience of Request2Pay or Verification/Confirmation of Payee solutions
• Enterprise Architecture experience

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 18/05/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Swapnil Vargaonkar at daniel.downing@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.

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.

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