Engineering Manager

Job ID: 20318 
 

The Deposits and Accounts Service Domain adds value by providing the target applications for Nordea’s customer account ledgers and payments handling; the back-bone of Nordea’s product offering to individual customers and a corner-stone of our promise to be a safe and trusted financial partner for our 10 million customers.

As one of a number of Engineering Managers, you will have overall technical accountability for the development of solutions of your Agile Release Train. This encompasses both in-house development and services delivered by the Bank’s partner organisations.

In Nordea, we’re harnessing the power of technology to reinvent the future of banking. A tech revolution is underway – and you can make an impact. Though we’re a Nordic bank, we’re also one of the largest IT employers in Tricity and Warsaw. Working with international teams in an inspiring working environment, you’ll have lots of opportunities to expand your skills and advance your career.

About this opportunity

The Engineering Manager will work closely with the Service Domain Technology Lead and will be expected to drive engineering excellence in the delivery of reliable, secure, performant and maintainable solutions that meet the design requirements within the Service Domain. Engineering Managers are technical leaders, co-ordinators, facilitators and enablers.  They provide strategic and technical direction to development teams to ensure quality and on time delivery.

This role is not expected to code, but should be able to get to that level of detail to be able to communicate and influence desired technical outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure delivery teams are resourced with people with the necessary technical skills
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues associated with technical delivery 
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to build and maintain a world class software engineering  team
• Lead the growth of the engineering practice by creating an environment that fosters technical excellence with a focus on engineering culture and quality of delivery and leading the cultural change necessary to support this 
• Drive technical innovation and contribute to the Domain (and wider group’s) technical strategy 
• Where applicable, seek out opportunities to leverage technology to achieve the Service Domain’s goals and ensuring you team is across the latest developments in relevant technologies
• Oversee the introduction of any new technologies or processes including organisational change required for successful adoption
• Work within a collaborative team environment, proactively sharing knowledge, information, problems and solutions
• General people management including; hiring, periodic reviews and performance management

The role is based in Tricity or Warsaw, Poland.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  

To succeed in this role, we believe that you have/are:

• Able to working in a self-directed fashion in an often ambiguous environment
• Able to work collaboratively to resolve competing priorities by pragmatically balancing desired technical outcomes with project delivery 
• Able to work closely with the architecture function and other stakeholders with the confidence to constructively challenge when required
• Confident presenting your ideas to a wide audience including Service Domain stakeholders and other senior leaders 
• A high proficiency of the English language (spoken and written) with well-developed communication skills

Your experience and background: 

• Experience working on large, complex enterprise applications
• Experience working in a technical leadership capacity with the ability to influence technical implementations and outcomes
• Experience leading medium to large technical teams, ideally 30-50, who are responsible for creating business critical applications with large numbers of users 

Highly desirable:

• Experience implementing continuous improvement and technical uplift initiatives across teams
• Experience working in an agile software development environment
• Although not essential, experience working with Temenos Transact will be highly regarded
• Experience with, and an advocate for, Continuous Delivery and BizDevOps

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 24/12/2024. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Marten John Robert Hilberts.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

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