Job ID: 4653
Would you like to play a vital part in maintaining and developing Nordea’s fundamental banking systems? We are now looking for an Expert IT Analyst to guide our development efforts assuring long term stability, architectural excellence and efficient deliveries.
At Nordea, we know our customers’ needs are changing – and we’re deeply committed to meet them with the financial solutions of tomorrow. So bring your skills, ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger.
About this opportunity
Welcome to the Local Systems team. We add value by providing stable, efficient and innovative IT services in the mainframe area, including Account, Payment, Customer Data and Loan systems, serving virtually all other business areas of the bank. As an Expert IT Analyst you will play a vital role in designing and building Nordea’s fundamental banking applications, guiding stakeholders and developers into choosing optimal solutions.
What you will be doing
- Analyse, develop and implement the architectural roadmap of the fundamental banking applications in the Local Systems SE system portfolio
- Analyse and document requirements together with stakeholders, enhance into detailed IT requirements, and verify implementations
- Cooperate with many colleagues within Local Systems and other system areas, such as developers, architects, testers, business requestors as our system portfolio is interfacing with most of Nordea’s applications
- Focus on delivering high quality solutions in an agile way
- Developing the internal working procedures of the unit
- Assist our Scrum Master in taking responsibility for the whole team’s development portfolio and act as driver
You'll join a team of highly skilled IT professionals with a huge collective experience of banking systems. Cooperation is well established within the team, and we take a strong personal responsibility for our work. We have a mixed delivery model with a combination of employees as well as consultants from our key partner.
As our applications are extremely central in the Nordea application landscape, managing the interconnectivity with other system areas is of prime importance. The Local Systems application portfolio is built on the IBM z/OS (“Mainframe”) technical platform. To be successful, we believe you are well acquainted with this platform.
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:
- Have a good ability to understand large and complex system landscapes
- Are skilled at explaining your ideas to business and to your colleagues.
- Have a positive attitude and cooperate easily with those you have contact with in your daily work
- Are self-driven and used to work pro-actively towards set targets within sometimes unclear boundaries
- Have the capability to work with English speaking colleagues from all over the world
Your experience and background:
- You are an experienced IT Analyst or IT Architect, with at least five years of experience from Mainframe Development of fundamental banking applications
- You are skilled in and enjoy analysing products and IT solutions, writing requirements, documenting and testing
- You have many years of experience from working with development projects at a large Nordic bank
- You are a fluent English speaker
Furthermore, we expect you to be familiar with several of the following areas:
- Deposit Account Systems
- Basic banking systems in areas like payments, customer, cards, cash pooling etc
- Agile and SAFe Ways of working
- TWS/OPC
What we offer
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 19/10/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact André Åhl at andre.ahl@nordea.se.
The recruitment process consists of the following steps:
- Preliminary CV selection
- Phone/ Online conversation with the recruiter or hiring leader
- Online interview with the hiring leader
- Reference check
For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.