Senior Data Engineer, Nordea Asset Management

Job ID: 4007

Would you like to get in on the ground floor of building a new data platform? We are now looking for a Senior Data Engineer to accelerate our shift towards a Snowflake-based data platform.

Nordea Asset Management (NAM) is the centre of investment management in the Nordea Group and in the Asset & Wealth Management division. NAM is the largest asset manager in the Nordics with the vision of being a leading European Asset Manager. We want to do this by delivering returns with responsibility. We meet customer demands and guide our customers in the right direction in asset selection while ensuring prudent ESG practices. NA.

About our team

Welcome to the Reference Data Value Stream. We add value by automating and implementing data management processes, data products and data foundations for investment systems, reporting and analytics. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll play a valuable role in building vital data pipelines and tooling to futureproof our Market & Reference Data business domain.

What you'll be doing

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Driving requirement gathering and finding the right problems to solve
• Working across teams to share knowledge, participate in communities and getting an outside-in perspective on architectural decisions
• Developing the business domain part of our NAM Data Platform, adding new data sources and transformations in response to new business requirements
• Continually improving the platform, adopting new technologies and patterns as they become available
• Building internal tooling to support NAM’s migration into the NAM data platform
• Continue migrating the existing platform into our Lakehouse
• Mentoring across the cross-functional team and in the competence team
• Influence the business domain estate and engage in technology ADRs, tech standards and implementation guidelines

You’ll join a motivated, international, agile, cross-functional and end-to-end team . The role is based in Copenhagen.

Who you are

To do well in this role, we believe that you:

• Value good software practices such as “Everything-as-code”, automated testing, good CI/CD practices - all in service of continuous delivery with high speed and quality
• Believe in the “you build it, you run it” approach to ownership
• Adept at learning swiftly, interested in exploring better ways of working

Your background and skills include: 

• Extensive experience working with Python in a data engineering capacity
• Extensive experience with SQL

In addition it is preferable if you have experience in any of the following:

• Building and deploying containerised applications on Kubernetes
• Experience with Snowflake
• Experience with DBT
• Building DAGs with Apache Airflow
• AWS or other public cloud experience
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
• Experience working in end-to-end delivery teams
• Experience with a Data Mesh strategy

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 04/05/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Martin Pagh-Roelsgaard at martin.pagh-roelsgaard
@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.

If you are an external consultant interested in this role and wish to apply please contact the hiring people leader for separate instruction on how to apply.