Lead Data Engineer / Snowflake Lead Developer

Job ID: 26981

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.

Would you like to be a lead and front runner of Data & Reporting development of Snowflake solutions – building best practice solutions based on Kafka, API’s and implement the newest Nordea Data Reference Architecture? Your technical expertise will include general software engineering, Data Warehouse, as well as big data/streaming analytics.

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

You will work closely together with business product owners and IT Analysts, business SME’s, Group Architecture and other developers to understand and analyse the business needs from which you will design and implement end-2-end solutions on our new Snowflake platform. And ensuring that consumers easily can translate data to insight and business value.

You’ll join Data and Reporting, where we are delivering the future Data & Analytics platforms and solutions for Nordea Transaction Banking. We deliver on multiple data platforms (Snowflake, Power BI and Confluence Kafka), as well as on many enterprise and self-service data integration & analytical platforms.

What you’ll be doing:

• Handson development and solution design
• End2end design
• Data Streaming/data integration
• Data storage on Snowflake
• Data modelling including monitoring of Data Quality
• ELT: dbt / Python / Others
• Technical coaching and sharing best practices for the development team(s) based in Denmark, Poland and India:
• Solution design and data modelling
• Recommendations about platform/tool selections, information architecture, including implementation of data governance principles
• Focusing on business requirements and understanding of the complete Data & analytics delivery value chain:
• Analysing requirement and define overall implementation standards together with architects and developers
• Data analysis & modelling
• Proactively engaging stakeholders
• Validating the solutions both from a requirement fulfilment perspective, as well as from a technical perspective (fit for purpose)

The role is based in Copenhagen (DK), Stockholm (SE) or Helsinki (FI).

Who you are

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Work well with others and always act with the customer’s needs in mind
• Love learning and trying new things
• Are honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it’s difficult and committed to empowering others
• Are passionate about doing a great job

Your experience and background:

• 8+ years’ experience in DW, BI & analytics as an architect and/or developer
• Data related programming skills (Java/Scala)
• Academic IT degree
• Great communicator with business and be a bridge builder between business and IT
• English language skills

Technical skills:

• Kafka (Kafka connect / producers and consumers)
• Hands on experience with building e2e data pipelines on Snowflake/AWS (dbt, etc.)
• SnowCLI / SnowPark
• Java and building APIs
• Knowledge about Apache Iceberg

It is beneficial if you know/have:

• DataStage
• Power BI
• MSSQL -SSIS / SSAS
• Oracle RDBM
• Experience with information and/or solution architecture is preferred

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 [cust_PostEnd]. 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.

Only for candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.