Lead Data Analyst - Payments Data

Job ID: 30308

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.

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 this opportunity

 
To strengthen our team we are looking for an experienced Lead Data Analyst (Expert IT Analyst) who has skills to do hands-on data and requirement analysis work. The right candidate also understands other aspects of software development: Are we making solid architectural decisions? Are we able to improve our tech stack? Are we focusing on right things?

Your main responsibilities will be around the consolidation and harmonization, sourcing, storage and distribution of Payments Data to other solutions. It also includes integrations supporting different End2End payment flows in Nordea´s target payment architecture. 

 
What you’ll be doing:

• Contributing to solution design, maintainability and architecture of applications
• Designing both near real-time data pipelines and pipeline for traditional analytics
• Interacting with product owners and stakeholders to clarify, elicit and translate requirements into implementation specifications
• Data mapping, data modelling, solution design and working with Information architects
• Performing quantitative data analysis with the aim to understand identified issues and to explain implications, and recommend solutions
• Collaborating with developers and engineers, and properly document your design & solutions
• Engaging with many different stakeholders, so the person we are looking for, is communicative and has skills to build relationships
• Eliciting requirements (functional and non-functional) by co-operating with different stakeholders in a complex environment
• Be responsible for requirements documentation (inc. use cases) and quality improvement
• Accessing complex and distributed datasets, and perform statistical analysis

The role is based in Copenhagen / Taastrup (DK) or Helsinki (FI).

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:

• Are a team player who takes ownership, builds cross-functional relationships and loves sharing knowledge
• Have a consultant mindset – actively participate in multiple initiatives at once
• Can communicate constructively, and contribute to a productive work environment and good atmosphere in the team
• Are an experienced analyst, always seeking the best solution

Your experience and background: 

• 5-7 years of experience from designing data intensive solutions, data architectures and integration patterns
• Understanding the importance of requirement elicitation techniques / analysis
• Expert in ensuring that business requirements gets translated into functional and non-functional specifications
• Excellent skills in SQL (Oracle, MSSQL or similar RDBMS)
• Understanding of practices like Domain driven design, Event sourcing architecture patterns, microservices architecture and clean code
• Understanding of CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, Maven and JUnit and also to have experience building distributed, highly available and high throughput applications
• Degree in computer science and engineering, mathematical modelling or similar
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, and familiar with international collaboration with different stakeholder groups

It is beneficial if you know/have:

• Knowledge of the banking sector and payment domain (ISO20022 standard, SEPA and Swift messages)
• Experience in one or more cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google)

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 31/10/2025. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Finn Abildgaard at finn.abildgaard@nordea.com. Please note that we will proceed with potential candidates already during the application period. 

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.