Senior IT Developer

Nordea is hiring a Senior IT Developer in Oulu, Finland. Level rates it ; you can apply on Nordea.

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Job ID: 4883

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. We are looking for a senior lead developer to join our team on a full time employment agreement.

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

Meet the Service Domain Fraud Technology. We are part of the Service Area Financial Crime Technology. We are a fairly large team with a mix of people from different backgrounds and with different skills, with one thing in common; to excel in providing tools, applications and IT-development to prevent the bank and our customer to fall victim of fraud.

Main responsibilities in this role includes:

Acting as a Lead/Senior Developer within the Financial Crime Prevention domain, driving technical excellence and innovation
Leading technical teams by setting high development standards, implementing industry best practices, and mentoring other developers
Collaborating closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Analyst
Refining epics and user stories, ensuring clear alignment between business goals and technical execution
Translating solution architecture into robust technical designs and high-quality, working software
Advising on the selection of tools, technologies, and processes to optimize development within the Fraud area

Who you are

This is the right role for you if have:

Strong leadership & communication: Proven ability to facilitate technical meetings, lead and coach developers, and communicate effectively across diverse stakeholder groups.
Senior mindset: Senior-level experience in building scalable, high-concurrency, and distributed systems with a focus on high availability and throughput.
Ability to lead implementation of an architecture and compliance requirements

Your background and skills include:

Good knowledge of Integration Patterns, APIs and RESTFul API Design, deep hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Kafka, Hadoop and SQL
Architecture & Patterns: Practical expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event Sourcing, Microservices architecture, and Clean Code principles
Cloud & Modern Tooling: Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms integrations and a solid understanding of CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
Good understanding of automated and unit testing, code profiling and performance testing
Practical knowledge of using AI tools and LLMs to enhance development workflows or integrate intelligent features into products

It would be ideal if you also have:

Knowledge of Software Security, TDD, and Junit
Experience in banking or financial crime prevention sector

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 09/11/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Capability Leader for Fraud Management R&A and EL Anna Rosén at anna.rosen@nordea.com.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

Preliminary CV selection
Phone conversation with the hiring leader or recruiter
Online interview with the hiring leader
Background checks and reference check

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

How we rate this

Senior IT Developer at Nordea rates 26 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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