Are you willing to take the next step with us in digital banking and asset management? You might be the one we are looking for! We are in search of a new system specialist to strengthen our lending IT environment development and maintenance.

Who are we

Aktia IT operates mainly in the Helsinki city center and provides flexible remote working opportunities. However we are not constrained to any particular place and provide possibility for remote working very flexibly.

Your position would be within Aktia’s IT in the Lending team. We handle lending, asset financing and factoring applications for various business operations within the bank. Our working culture is relaxed and informal. We work independently but help each other whenever needed. We are service and solution oriented. We like team players who are willing to get their hands into tech and keep a finger on the pulse. We work agile and try to learn and improve our performance continuously. 

Job description and responsibilities

As a system specialist in Aktia's IT you are responsible for developing and maintaining platforms and applications specifically for the lending domain. You will work closely together with various teams, both technical and business, to ensure smooth operation of our lending operations. You will also get to participate in our lending business development from technical point of view.

In this position you would be administering the production environment as well as test environments. You would be part of integration planning related to lending platform applications. You might also be able to create and develop services of your own, may that be with your programming skills or perhaps in a low code environment. Interest in testing and creating test automation could also be one of the keys to success in this role. You would be working closely with third party application vendors.

As digitalization is one of Aktia’s main strategies you get exclusive view on digitalization and automatization of lending business and processes. 

What is expected

We expect from you

• Good knowledge of SQL
• Scripting capability with Powershell
• Knowledge of Windows server platform
• Eagerness to learn
• Experience in integration planning and understanding REST/SOAP integrations
• Capability of administrating application production environment
• Systematic and analytic approach to work
• Experience and ability in working with business domain counterparts
• Experience in working with third party application vendors
• At least some programming skills (preferably C#/.NET)
• Experience in managing software systems in production

We also appreciate greatly if you know

• Experience from banking business domain / lending business domain
• CI/CD pipelines
• Version control
• Experience in agile work practices
• Robot Framework knowledge

What can we offer you

The possibility to join a group of IT professionals who are helping to create the best digital bank and asset manager in Finland.

We provide excellent benefits for our personnel, including occupational health care, lunch benefits and exclusive benefits on banking services!

Our people are treated with respect and we aim to provide learning possibilities while ensuring that our working environment keeps people motivated and enthusiastic.

At Aktia IT we speak Finnish, Swedish and English, so language is no barrier for us. Rather a possibility to learn a new one or refresh forgotten skills. At least excellent English skills are a must though.

At Aktia we aim to provide our people flexible opportunities to grow to become a pro in a specific domain or a jack of all trades with a wider perspective from tech or financial industry.

Aktia’s values bravely, skillfully, together guide our actions and attitude in all circumstances. These values have big impact on how we work now and in the future. 

More info

Interested? For further info, please contact Markus Nurmi preferably via email markus.nurmi@aktia.fi or phone +358 50 406 7044.

Send in your application by 30.09.2022.

We will interview suitable applicants as soon as possible. Please note that we do not accept applications sent via email.