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Job ID: 31720

Welcome to Core Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and platforms with a direct impact on Nordeas 2030 strategy goals to modernize our data technology state and accelerate AI across the organization.

We are looking for a Tech Lead responsible for our AI & Cloud Platform in our Data-AI-Integration team. You will join a small, agile team with a mandate to drive impact across Nordea. Your success after one year means we have a robust, reusable platform with happy internal customers running in production.

About Our Team

Welcome to the Data-AI-Integration team. We are building the next-generation AI backbone for Nordea. This is not a maintenance role; you will lead the technical vision and execution for a centralized, opinionated AI Platform that balances rapid delivery with banking-grade security. Your mission is to guide a team of engineers in designing, building, and scaling infrastructure that enables predictive and generative AI use cases to move from concept to production safely and efficiently.

This is a fulltime permanent position with a hybrid working location in either Helsinki, Finland, or Gdansk / Gdynia, Poland.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Set the engineering direction for the AI platform, ensuring architectural integrity and scalability, and while you lead, you also code—designing production-grade services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure that meets the demands of a highly regulated industry.
• Coach engineers, foster best practices, and help build a strong engineering culture.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Scientists, and Security teams to align technical decisions with business priorities, while staying ahead of emerging AI technologies (LLMs, agentic workflows) and guide pragmatic adoption.
• Own the technical roadmap and ensure robust, reusable patterns for AI workflows and maintain high-quality engineering practices across the team.
• Evaluate trade-offs between speed, scalability, and compliance and ensure platform reliability and lead resolution of critical issues.
• Translate technical complexity into clear updates for non-technical stakeholders.

Who You Are

• You are a Cloud Native Expert: Proven experience designing and building production-quality applications or services on AWS and other cloud providers.
• You are Engineering-Driven: You treat infrastructure as software. You are comfortable writing Python and managing complex environments with Terraform.
• You lead by example: You combine technical depth with the ability to inspire and guide others.
• You stay ahead of the curve: You have a genuine interest in AI and know how to apply new concepts pragmatically.

Your background and skills include

• BSc, MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in testing, maintaining, launching AI/ML products, working with MLOps best practices and a DevOps environment (CI/CD pipelines, Docker, container orchestration).
• Extensive and documented experience from working as a leader in a technical environment, heavily focused on AI and Cloud.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to prepare and drive presentations and engage multiple stakeholders meetings, as well as the ability to be a subject matter expert on the AI & Cloud Platform.
• Experience in training, evaluation, fine-tuning and deployment of predictive models; including feature selection, hyper-parameter tuning, error analysis and data visualization.
• Vast experience and track record of successfully working with the following tech stacks:
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Essential), Python.
• AI/ML Platform: Amazon SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, AgentCore.
• Data Platform: S3, AWS Glue, Lake Formation.
• Languages: Python (Primary), SQL.
• Experience working with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP), especially their serverless, ML services or data storage services as well as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Skilled at transforming complex ideas into clear, engaging explanations—whether youre presenting to a technical team or breaking things down for non-experts.

It would be ideal if you also

• Have professional experience working in regulated industries i.e. Banking, Government, etc.

Next steps

We kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 15/12/2025. Any applications or CVs sent by email, direct messages, or any other channel than our application forms, will not be accepted or considered.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics, and traits make us better at serving our customers and communities.

For information and questions regarding the team, role, or our recruitment process, please reach out to our tech recruiter and main point of contact anna.dahlstrom@consult.nordea.com.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

Only for candidates in Poland: Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:

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