Senior Solution & Data Architect

Job ID: 6939

Join Nordea Technology Payment Data & Reporting and play a key role in evolving the technology architecture that enables business growth, digital transformation and operational excellence.

As a Senior Solution & Data Architect, you will design how solutions actually work. You will translate business needs into concrete application, integration and data architectures and work alongside Product Owners and engineering teams from early shaping through implementation. You will make architectural decisions, challenge unnecessary complexity and help teams build solutions that are secure, scalable, reusable and fit for the future.

About our team

Welcome to Data & Reporting, where we build solutions for the payment domain that help deliver on Nordea's strategic ambitions. You will join an architecture team with significant freedom to operate, where taking ownership is a core expectation.

Payment Technology is increasingly adopting AI across our delivery teams and solutions. Architecture plays an important role in bringing together business, technology, security and architectural requirements. In parallel, we are modernising our technology landscape by adopting cloud and modern tooling to create a more scalable, agile and resilient foundation for our product organisation. As part of our architecture community, you will work closely with business, EA architects, engineering teams and technology specialists across the organization to shape solutions that balance business value, technical excellence and long-term sustainability.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide how we work and make decisions, and we hope you share them with us.

What you'll be doing:

• Shape end-to-end solution and data architectures across applications, APIs, integrations, data and infrastructure.

• Work with Product Owners and business stakeholders early in the shaping of initiatives, before key technology decisions are locked in.

• Translate business needs into concrete technical designs and architecture decisions.

• Work closely with lead developers and engineering teams throughout implementation turning architectural decisions into working solutions.

• Define and evolve architecture roadmaps, target states, standards, principles and reusable patterns.

• Challenge unnecessary complexity and actively drive simplification, reuse and modernisation.

• Ensure solutions address security, resilience, scalability and regulatory requirements.

• Explain, challenge and defend architecture decisions with both technical specialists and business stakeholders.

• Build alignment across Product Owners, engineering teams, architects and other stakeholders.

• Maintain architectural ownership from early shaping through delivery, with a strong focus on delivered business value.

Who you are

You combine strong solution architecture skills with a solid understanding of data architecture and a pragmatic delivery mindset. You are comfortable moving between business discussions, architecture decisions and technical conversations with engineering teams. You challenge existing thinking when needed, explain complex decisions in simple language and bring people together around a common direction.

You have:

• Strong experience designing end-to-end solution architectures in complex technology environments.

• Experience designing across applications, APIs, integrations, data and infrastructure.

• Good understanding of data architecture, data modelling, data flows and integration patterns.

• Experience working closely with software engineers and delivery teams during implementation, not only during initial design.

• Understanding of cloud architecture, security, resilience, scalability and modern software engineering practices.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.

• Ability to explain and defend architectural decisions with both technical and business stakeholders.

• A pragmatic mindset focused on simplicity, reuse and delivered value.

It would be ideal if you also have:

• Experience from payments, banking, financial services or another regulated industry.

• Experience working within large enterprises and technology landscapes.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms, modern software engineering practices and technology modernization.

What we offer

• Significant influence on the future architecture of Payment Data & Reporting.

• The opportunity to shape solutions from early business ideas through implementation.

• A key role in modernising a complex payment, technology and data landscape.

• The opportunity to influence how we use cloud, data and AI in our future solutions.

• A highly collaborative environment spanning architecture, engineering, product and business.

People come here when they want to get somewhere and learn. 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 change, 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 30/12/2026. For more information, you're welcome to contact Finn Abildgaard at finn.abildgaard@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.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.