Team Lead for the SDT Authentication & Signing team

Job ID: 32041

We are looking for an Team lead for SDT Authentication & Signing team. Authentication, Agreement & Authorization (AAA) within Digital Core and Advisory unit delivers identity and access management digital solution for Nordea’s online banking that help millions of Nordea customers to keep their access to the bank and transactions safe. 

About our team

Welcome to Retail Digital, the biggest banking platform in the Nordics! You will join an awesome group of people from across the world, that delivers solutions to our customers in a never before seen pace, ensuring that Nordea will become the frontrunner in digital banking services. Retail Digital owns most mass-distributed frontends and related API development for Nordea customers. We all have a role in building the best bank that serves our customers’ changing needs – through innovative solutions, collaboration and partnering with teams located in different countries.

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Leading a team of engineering professional in building authentication & signing solutions.
• Hands on attitude, working with microservices and micro front-end patterns with a solid toolset like latest Spring Boot version, Java and front-end technologies like Angular.
• Engaging, coaching and empowering people to achieve agreed deliverables and goals
• Taking active part of the delivery of needed customer solutions on equal terms with the other members of the execution team
• Focus on business needs and together with the team finding solutions to solve those needs
• Ensuring that the team takes full responsibility for delivering working software, all the way from definition to quality assurance and into production

This role is based in Oulu (Yrttipellontie 6), Finland.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you: 

• Continuously work to improve through both engineering and business knowledge uplift
• Take ownership of the business solutions within your area, and ensure high quality software and solutions that you can be proud of
• Have good people and collaborative skills. Engage and steer team in the right direction

Your background and skills include:

• Professional experience leading small development teams.
• Solid Java skills, with minimum of 12 years working experience in that backend development delivering complex systems.
• Professional experience in delivering and understanding the lifecycle of business software and what it takes to make long lasting solutions
• Specific expert knowledge in how to deliver software, either from a team optimization or technical perspective
• Experience delivering in financial or other regulated industry is a definite advantage
• Knowledge of cryptography and industry standard authentication protocols is a definite advantage

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

Please note that we will start interviews already before job opening closes. ​Submit your application no later than 15/12/2025. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Enrique Cordero enrique.cordero@nordea.com. 

If you have any questions about recruitment steps you may contact our tech recruiter annina.perttu@consult.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.