IT Architect in Consumer Finance Service Domain

Job ID: 2854

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 an IT Architect who defines and governs solution designs, ensuring they align with enterprise strategy, meet business requirements, and provide secure, scalable, and sustainable technology outcomes. We are offering full-time employment agreement. 

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

Meet the Consumer Finance Service Domain team. Our role is to deliver value by providing a strong technology organisation that enables effortless, end‑to‑end digital customer journeys. We do this by enhancing Nordea’s credit card offerings and delivering convenient consumer lending solutions for our customers.

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Asses business requirements, the current architecture and identify the gaps
• Design architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and strategic technology roadmap
• Develop and maintain comprehensive solution design documentation, incorporating detailed process flows, system architecture diagrams, and data models to ensure clarity, accuracy, and alignment with business and technical requirements
• Collaborate with the architecture community, key stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on solution design, technical standards, and delivery objectives  

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are passionate about learning, skilled at turning business requirements into clear architectural concepts (especially within financial services), and thrive on collaborating with diverse teams to ensure architecture is communicated effectively and consistently.

Your background and skills include: 

• 1+ years’ of experience with delivering solution architecture, through detailed process, system diagrams and data modelling
• Ability to translate business requirements to architectural concepts
• Knowledge of integration technologies and application integration patterns
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Excellent stakeholders management skills
• Excellent communication skills in English

It would be ideal if you also: 

• Java knowledge on a level that allows communication with development teams
• Knowledge of process automation platforms: specifically Pega
• Experience in working in agile methodology (SAFe)

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 10/02/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Beata Cichocka at beata.cichocka@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.

For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.