Would you like to help us eliminate Excel at OP? Please say yes!! (note from author of job ad: that was without a doubt my favorite opening line of all time, for any job ad, ever). Summer is here! The Heat Will Return! Covid-19 will disappear! And with your help, we will get rid of Excel too. Read on:

By now you are familiar with OP as one of THE formidable destinations for software developers in Finland. With all of the layoffs and YT and fewer companies hiring during this global pandemic, I’ll bet you are thinking twice about which industries are and even growing? Finance and Insurance, we are bringing back ‘sex appeal’ of employment using modern technologies and huge scale data, for you, the software developer!

At the beginning of 2019, we embarked on an ambitious company-wide Agile transformation, which has gone swimmingly. Then we added an important twist to concentrate on building a developer culture, thereby bringing technical alignment to our goal of autonomy. Now we have introduced an innovative and culturally necessary DevOps culture to everything we do, reinforced by our OP Engineering Principles (see brief teaser here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xlVGMxoY8

A few bottom lines:
We work incredibly well together, at all levels, with little to no actual bureaucracy
Our Values are working, People First is at the top
We are one of the few companies still growing and ambitiously hiring during Covid
Developers genuinely like working at OP
And: We Are Interviewing and Hiring In July!

No niin: The Job:
In our retail banking side, we are going to start a new project this Autumn, a sourcing / procurement process. With a technical architect background, you will guide that project through from sourcing to deployment to end to end, from and RFI round to RFP for planning solution to choose the proper vendor. You will lead the development work and control and guide the service integrator and application provider, using your experience in planning tools and business intelligence. You will neither implement nor code! This is more of a Solution Architect role (though internally this will be entitled Lead Developer, as we are following our OP Agile structure organically with titles).

You will be responsible for creating an architectural runway, where we have epics and features and stories. You will take part in approving and defining ready phases, you will approve all technical and non-functional implementation. You will make a list of all the non-functional requirements then lead the technical work and make approvals for each Sprint, accepting the technical aspects and non-functional features. When the Sprint is done you will approve all outcomes and approve deliverables, then of course the deployment phase, responsible for documentation and operational instructions and handover to continuous services / application management.

By taking ownership of the technology and technical aspects of this area, you will have influence on the direction of OP’s planning solution and roadmap to come. We will ultimately move from Excel to something more robust, translating drivers into actual financial plans. This planning solution will be SW as a service solution from the cloud, so you will not need to worry about infrastructures or servers.

The Tribe:
Core Finance Solutions (although its more of an IT Area, than a Tribe), consisting of 30 OP employees and 100 externals.

The Team:
IT area, Financial Reporting. You will work on a team of 10 Lead Developers, having weekly meetings where you will share your worries and issues and then resolve them together. You ware essentially in KeTe (Development and technology), but you will also co-mingle and work closely with the business side in Retail Banking. You will have plenty of support from your team, including other reliability engineers, product owners, system integrators, architects and process owners. This is still an independent role though : ) and you will not have any direct reports.

Who Are You:
You have Financial Management solutions both on-premise and on cloud platforms, experience with the following products is an advantage:
- Planning systems (such as Cognos, SAP)
- Financial management systems (such as SAP, Clausion, Basware)
- Analytics, machine learning and reporting solutions (R, SAS, Tableau, PowerBI ...)
- Data storage solutions (SAP BW, Teradata, MSSQL, ..)
- Integration solutions and integration patches as well as API solutions in a hybrid IT environment
- You also manage Office, Confluence, Jira, BizzDesign (or similar) tools

You have several years of experience in the world of implementation architecture for economics and planning systems. You have a background in the development and design of information solutions and experience in solutions for large organizations. Your particular interest is in developing financial management and reporting solutions and operating models.

Why would you want this job?
This kind of architecture is very exciting, you can have the overview what is happening in the IT world. You will have the latest information about architecture, technologies and most modern tools. It’s a challenging and educating job to really look into these technologies from the top of the world.

We are modernizing and digitalizing these solutions, we use modern techniques like API management, mobile devices in publishing, any other modern technique when doing these kinds of applications. Even the tools themselves, we pick up the most leading tools from the market, which are thoroughly analyzed and vetted and chosen.

In this solution, we need business intelligence capabilities, meaning that the person needs to deal with data warehousing, ETL tools, reporting and analysis, data transfers, Hadoop, virtualizations, modern dashboards etc

Why else would you want this job:
Lots of things to do in this  IT area, huge plans and initiatives to build. This is just a starting point, this planning solution job. After you get experience with this, you will have a lot of opportunity to leverage to other similar application environments and OP techniques, which will cover most of the areas what you can do around financial solutions or IT in general. In Finance, we are in the end of the food chain, so everybody who generates any kind of data, we will consume that. We own the business information. We have data mgt teams and enterprise data warehousing and risk mgt and authority reporting etc, but everyone depends on us.

Requirements:
- Experience in managing and working with architectures and technologies in your area of specialization
- Experience in the implementation and development of design and calculation solutions
- Experience in implementing reporting, analytics and Dashboard solutions
- Experience in drafting non-functional requirements and in-depth knowledge of capabilities
- Experience in designing systems integrations, interfaces and dependencies in a hybrid IT environment
- Experience in implementing data warehousing solutions
- Knowledge of test automation methods
- Competence in total financial management solutions
- Experience in application development
- Adequate technical product platform expertise, such as application servers, virtual platforms, databases and firewalls
- Proficiency in English and Finnish (ideally, but if you are missing Finnish, lets still talk)

Our Process this Summer:
Our recruitment team is working actively throughout July, so we will be setting up calls with you to get to know you! Then based on which week we are in, we will try to get you scheduled to speak with one of our Lead Developers or Competence Leads. After that, we will continue with our team interview(s) once people start returning to the office. In other words, its smart that you apply immediately! We will hire the best person we meet first. May the Best candidate win : )

Wash Your Hands and Apply Now:
Please apply here with your English CV! And as said, don’t wait, we will interview and hire the best candidates without delay : ) If you have questions about this position or what it's like to work at OP, please direct them in your cover letter, and they will be answered by one of our recruiters. If you are a solid fit, we will expeditiously set up a brief 'phone screen' with you where we will get to know you, qualify your background and match you to the particular position (or a different one if we find your background is more suitable for something else). After that, we will manage your candidate experience to be sure you are thoroughly prepared for every interview step you will participate in, and to be sure you are enjoying the process (and not too stressed out: a job search can be hard!) Keep in mind that you will eventually need to 'create a candidate profile' on our careers page, go through a coding assignment, psych assessment and background/medical check prior to employment. These won't take long, and are a necessary step considering the billions of euros our company manages for a majority of Finns :) For more information about data privacy, our principles of recruiting and our values, please explore our careers page https://op-careers.fi
 
Thanks, good luck, and stay safe out there!

#LI-GAV