About this opportunity

• Be accountable for developing transition and target architectures that provides explicit guidance and steering for initiatives within the credit risk management domain.
• Provide solution design and architectural leadership that includes creation of content related to business, information, application, process and technology architecture viewpoints.
• Craft architectural blueprints to support coordinated realisation of multiple credit risk management and related initiatives in the bank. It includes documenting and diagramming conceptual, logical and physical architectures across solution viewpoints listed. The candidate must also be able to articulate benefits and drawbacks of various design options and recommend solutions that deliver the most business value while limiting technical debt.
• Educate and assist stakeholders with Nordea Group Architecture’s governance framework and associated processes.
• Ensure that the architecture roadmap is aligned with the business strategy of each of the bank’s business domain to help them achieve their respective objectives, improve operational efficiency or marketplace competitiveness – while staying within risk appetite and complying with regulations.

Who you are

• Have the ability to work with engineers, developers, project managers, as well as C-level executives to demonstrate Group Architecture’s value proposition.
• Communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation and communicate complex concepts in clear and understandable ways to build understanding.
• Build effective relationships with other architects and stakeholders across the organisation to facilitate alignment of the credit management architecture in relation to other domains.
• Have the ability to communicate the domain architecture recommendations to a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Guide and advice stakeholders to resolve architectural issues to support the implementation of the target picture.
• Drive strategic discussions for evolving the domain architecture to deliver reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, improved agility, reduced risk, and/or improved business capabilities.
• Adapt and respond to change and work effectively to resolve ambiguity.  
• Are creative and have a strong desire for innovation.
• Keep focus on own continuous development and learning as well as mentor others to build knowledge and improve overall effectiveness.

• 5+ years of related work experience in the areas of Credit Risk Management, Risk Based Pricing, Lending Automation, Credit Performance Monitoring, Data Governance & Modelling, Business Intelligence and/or Data Warehousing.
• 3 to 5 years’ experience with delivering architecture and solution design in a client-facing, consulting and/or delivery role, leading large transformation projects in banking or financial services industries, including supporting the project planning and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to drive development of target and transition architectures and to craft fit-for-purpose architecture content that provides explicit guidance for large and complex transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience with integration technologies, methods and architecture patterns to support batch, real-time and near-real-time data integration to support operational lending, analytical and reporting use cases.
• Proficient with business analysis, software engineering, integration and orchestration, technical solution design, and risk and quality management.
• Prior team management experience required, preferably in a matrix organisation.

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