Senior Data Scientist - Predictive AI

Job ID: 2918

Join our team and use your expertise to fight crime! We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to explore and develop machine learning models for anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and fraud. What can be more rewarding as a data scientist than dedicating your time to fight one of our society’s biggest threats?

The position is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

About our team

Meet the AI & Machine Learning team. Our role is to improve how we detect and investigate financial crime with the help of AI and machine learning, to keep our customers, Nordea and society safe.

Our team is about 25 people working out of Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen as a part of the group financial crime prevention (GFCP) unit that provides financial crime prevention services to all of the bank.

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.

Your responsibilities:

• Explore new machine learning use cases in collaboration with business stakeholders
• Implement, deploy and monitor our machine learning applications
• Rigorously evaluate and improve the quality of our machine learning applications
• Doing analyses related to the models and present the results.

Who you are

We believe that you're ambitious and enjoy bringing ideas, exploring their potential, and presenting the results. You're passionate about building machine learning models that can identify complex financial crimes, ensuring both the bank’s and society's safety. No need for any prior experience in banking or finance.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• MSc or PhD in a field related to machine learning or statistical modelling.
• At least 4 years work experience fully dedicated to machine learning (PhD time counts).
• Strong theoretical understanding of machine learning and statistics.
• A knack for tackling complex problems and creating understandable and robust solutions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, explaining complex ideas to different stakeholders.

What we offer 

People come here when they want to get somewhere. 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 27/02/2026. For more information, feel free to reach out to Peter Nödtveidt (peter.nodtveidt@nordea.com), Head of Predictive AI in FCIIA.

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.

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