Lead / Senior AI Platform Engineer - Fighting Financial Crime

Summary: Lead and senior AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade AI platform capabilities for financial crime detection. Role involves technical leadership, defining engineering standards, and ensuring secure, compliant AI solutions across multiple Nordic locations.

Job ID: 3525

We are looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer to help shape and scale Nordea's enterprise AI platform, enabling AI-powered solutions that strengthen our ability to detect and investigate financial crime. This is a permanent position that can be based in Helsinki, Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen, or Poland.

About our team

Meet the Data and Platform Team. Our role is to improve how we detect and investigate financial crime through advanced data, machine learning and AI solutions, helping to keep our customers, Nordea and society safe.Our team consists of approximately 25 professionals located across Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, United Kingdom, and is part of Group Financial Crime Prevention. We develop and operate platform capabilities that support AI and machine learning solutions across the organisation, working closely with engineers, architects, data scientists and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful impact at scale.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.

What you'll be doing

As a Lead/Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in defining how AI is built, deployed and operated within one of the largest financial institutions in the Nordics. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping teams adopt scalable, secure and responsible AI solutions.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Design, build and evolve enterprise-grade AI platform capabilities supporting predictive, generative and agentic AI use cases.
• Drive technical leadership across engineering, architecture, data science and security teams to ensure successful platform adoption and operational excellence.
• Define engineering standards, production-readiness requirements, governance models and operational frameworks for AI solutions.
• Translate strategic AI ambitions into scalable platform capabilities, technical roadmaps and implementation guidance.
• Ensure platform resilience, security, cost efficiency and regulatory compliance through effective risk, incident and access management.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are passionate about building large enterprise scale technology platforms that enable innovation at scale and excited about the potential of AI to solve complex real-world problems. You enjoy working in environments where technical excellence, security and reliability are essential, and you thrive when collaborating with diverse stakeholders across technology and business domains.You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing technical direction and making pragmatic decisions that balance innovation with operational excellence. Most importantly, you are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to solutions that help combat financial crime and protect society.

Your background and skills include:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related technical field.
• Proven experience designing, building and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms and production-grade applications in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and familiarity with other major cloud providers such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on software engineering experience with Python and Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform.
• Experience with AI and machine learning platforms such as Amazon SageMaker, Bedrock, AgentCore and modern enterprise data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions and manage stakeholder relationships across complex organisational environments.

It would be ideal if you also:

• Have experience building shared platforms, internal developer platforms or enterprise services used by multiple teams.
• Have worked with MLOps, Generative AI, Large Language Models or enterprise AI adoption initiatives.
• Have experience from highly regulated industries such as banking, financial services, insurance, telecommunications or government.

What we offer
People come here when they want to get somewhere. 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](https://www.nordea.com/en/careers/our-culture "https://www.nordea.com/en/careers/our-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](https://www.nordea.com/en/careers/life-at-nordea "https://www.nordea.com/en/careers/life-at-nordea") – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.[Diversity and inclusion](https://www.nordea.com/en/careers/a-diverse-community "https://www.nordea.com/en/careers/a-diverse-community") 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](https://www.nordea.com/en/news/its-the-differences-that-make-us-stronger "https://www.nordea.com/en/news/its-the-differences-that-make-us-stronger") 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 as soon as possible as we start with interviews on ongoing basis. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Tiago Vieira, tiago.vieira@nordea.com.

A Background Check will be performed for the person selected for this position, including internal applicants.

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](https://www.nordea.com/en/about-us/who-are-we/our-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.

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

Only for candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.

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

In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter ‘GDPR’. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp.

The administrator of your personal data is: Nordea Bank Abp operating in Poland through its Branch, address: Aleja Edwarda Rydza Śmiglego 20, 93-281 Łodź. Your personal data will be processed for the recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. You have a right to access your personal data, right to rectify and right to delete. Disclosing the personal data in the scope specified by the provisions of Polish Labour Code from 26 June 1974 and executive acts are mandatory. Providing personal data is necessary to conduct the recruitment processes. The request for the deletion of your personal data means resignation from further participation in recruitment processes and causes the immediate removal of your application. Detailed information concerning processing of your personal data can be found at: https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf

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