OP is a financial services group with strong visions for the future. We are constantly hiring new colleagues to OP Group’s central cooperative where even the most ambitious career dreams can come true. We are strategically building a culture that allows you to work with bold, transforming solutions and, as a member of our pioneering team, make a difference in the lives of millions of people in Finland. 

Lead Developer, CRM Platform

About the position 

At OP Financial Group, we have decided to further improve our CRM capabilities to meet business needs. In this initiative, we are renewing our CRM into a new Microsoft Dynamics platform. Thanks to this transformation, we can improve our customer experience by providing advanced tools for our different business areas.

This Lead Developer role will offer some very interesting challenges. Transformation of this level is complex and there are lot of stakeholders in the game. Are you willing to accept the challenge? If yes, keep on reading what’s ahead of you on your path.

As a Lead Developer, your typical workday includes leading technical vision and technical work. You are designing and taking care that our solutions follow the architectural guidelines, driving development (if you’re into it, you can also do hands-on coding yourself), implementing integrations and documenting your work. Besides our internal employees we also have many vendors, who you will be guiding on technical aspects.

What we hope from you 

- experience in solution architecture principles and practices
- experience in working with large and complex system renewal programs, CRM program experience preferred
- knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 365, modern RESTful API, Java, C#, AWS, Azure
- general understanding of cloud-based delivery models, SaaS, DevOps CI/CD, integration architectures and patterns, master data and meta data management
- experience in JIRA and Confluence

Additionally, if you have experience Power Platform and Power Apps, that would also be very interesting to us.

You are familiar with agile software development and have preferably worked in financial sector. You have been mentoring/leading a software team and you know how to work with highly skillful software professionals. You are solution oriented and capable of finding creative ways of solving complex problems together with the team. You are enthusiastic about learning and quick to acquire new skills. You speak and write in English and if you can manage with Finnish, it’s a plus.

What we offer to you 

Our corporate culture and every-day operations are based on our core values: Responsibility, Succeeding Together and People First. These core values have enabled our cooperative success through decades and they will also form the cornerstone of our future corporate culture. For us, Responsibility means that by our solutions we are also developing Finnish economy and society. We can serve our society the best way by creating good banking solutions and digital service channels.

Succeeding together for its part means that we strongly believe in cooperation. We share knowledge and expertise within and between our teams, and we learn from each other every day. You’ll be doing close cooperation with Developers, Tech Leads, Product Owners, Test Engineers, Solution Analysts and other professionals.

People First means healthy relationship with work. With the Agile transformation journey, we have wanted to give our agile teams great power and responsibility of their own work. We have full trust on our professionals and experts, and we trust that our experts find the best ways to do things.

Even though we have transformed from a traditional financial group more and more towards a technology house, you should not forget that we are a bank, after all. This means that as an employee of OP, you will enjoy cheap mortgages and significant insurance benefits along with competitive salaries. And you will be offered extensive occupational health care plus health and accident insurances. We also offer you lunch plus sport and culture benefits. As a big house we also have the benefits of a big organization for your personal professional growth and development. As a cliffhanger, we can mention our internal education program, OP Software Academy, which is created to broaden and deepen our employees’ technical skills and competence.

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How to apply

Please send your application latest by Monday 31st of August 2020. If you have questions about this position or what it's like to work at OP, please contact Tribe Lead Risto Koistinen, +358 50 387 3180. Risto is available for calls on Thursday 6th of August at 12 am – 1 pm and Wednesday 12th of August at 1 pm – 2 pm. Also, you can reach Risto by email risto.koistinen(at)op.fi

The person to be selected for the job will have a credit check and a business relationship check, as well as drug test, basic security report and a health survey.

OP is the leading financial services group in Finland and pioneer in the industry’s digital transformation. Owned by our customers, we are the largest financial sector employer in Finland. OP Financial Group employs over 12,000 professionals and provides banking, asset management, wealth management, insurance and healthcare services for our more than four million customers. #LI-MP1