Head of Development Platforms, Nordea Life

1 month ago

Ballerup, Denmark Nordea Danmark, Filial af Nordea Bank Abp, Finland Full time

Job ID: 22809 
 

It’s an exciting time for you to join us. As the largest financial provider in the Nordics, and the fifth largest pension provider in Denmark, our ambition is to secure financial well-being to corporates and individuals. We have ambitious growth targets and want to be leading pension, health, and financial services. 

Working with us, you will play a part in transforming and building a better company that fulfils a vital role in society fulfilling people’s lifelong financial security and wellbeing. We aim to help our customers improve their lives and reach their goals. To do that, meeting our customers’ changing needs and offering them the best possible products and services is central to everything we do.

This is a unique opportunity for you to influence the future Technology platform and products of Nordea Life and Pension Denmark. The role will report to the Chief Information Officer.

About this opportunity

We seek a Head of Development Platforms for Nordea Life & Pensions (“NLP”) in Denmark. In Nordea we firmly believe that together we lead the way, enabling dreams and everyday aspirations for a greater good. We strive to be an attractive and fulfilling place to work for our people and to deliver sustainable value to our customers and shareholders while ensuring a strong and sustainable business model.

As Head of Development Platforms, you will be responsible for leading and developing a team of highly skilled developers that focuses on developing, enhancing, and maintaining a various number of integrations and own-developed solutions, including web platforms, mobile bank functionally & integration, customer and internal portals and archiving solutions. 

You will be the daily responsible person defining and delivering roadmaps in tight collaboration with business development and other business areas. You will be accountable and responsible for budgets, vendors, SLA & KPI follow-up, reporting, ensuring compliance, and audit within own domain. 

You will be part of the “Technology” department, in which we aim at building a best-in-class technology platform providing state-of-art solutions tailored to achieve our ambitious objectives. We embrace cloud and are properly the financial institution in Danmark furthest with implement a full cloud platform using Azure, Salesforce, Snowflake etc. “Technology” embodies a dynamic mix, combining a start-up mentality with well-established processes. We actively challenge the status quo, consistently questioning our approach while acknowledging that we don't need to address every aspect simultaneously. The environment at "Technology" reflects a balance, allowing us to navigate the complexities of our mission with agility and innovation.

Your responsibilities will include, while not be limited to: Lead development and maintenance of Nordea Pensions' integrations and solutions, including own-developed solutions, web platforms, mobile bank functionally & integration, customer and internal portals and archiving solutions etc.  Ensure full regulatory compliance and adhering to IT security guidelines. DevOps and Cloud native development setup Prioritize and implement strategic goals and application roadmaps. Maintain focus on reusing, optimizing, and simplifying our application landscape, including ensuring high security and stability, minimizing incidents. Engage relevant stakeholders in the relevant parts of the Development process. Manage budgets, recruitment, vendors, SLA & KPI follow-up and ensure compliance and audit within own domain. Ensure the team is rightly skilled and staffed. 


The role is based in Copenhagen, Nordea Metro office as our future workplace (from May 2024). We are located next to the DR Byens metro station, which ensures good transportation options, as well as a possibility for public parking spaces in the area.

Until then, we still reside at Borupvang 4, 2750 Ballerup, where we look forward to welcoming you as soon as possible.

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, you work well with others and always act with the ultimate customer’s needs in mind. You enjoy learning and trying new things and you are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You are honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it is difficult and committed to empowering others.

You cooperate well with stakeholders on different levels of the organization, and you can drive strategic work independently.

As this is a senior position with high level of complexity, we expect you to have years of experience from similar positions, not necessary from Pension but financial or other regulated industries would be a plus as managing and championing regulatory compliance will be an integrated part of your success. 


Your experience and background:  Broad and relevant experience (minimum 10-15 years) working with development teams and creating and executing application roadmaps. Digitally adept and able to utilize relevant digital solutions within the organization, staying informed about digital opportunities beyond their own scope. Proficient in driving efficiency based on agile development principles and DevOps Capability to work distributed across on-location and off-shore/near-shore environments. Strong communicator than can express complicated matters in an easy and graspable way in verbal and written communication. Relevant and documented leadership experience Self-motivated, professional, high integrity with a balanced set of values reflecting high ethics. Relevant education i.e. Bachelor, PhD or Master’s degree.  Proficiency in Danish and English, both spoken and written.

If this sounds like you, get in touch

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