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Senior Data Mesh Platforms Engineer (Gdańsk, PL, 80-309)
Nordea Bank Abp · Gdańsk, PL, 80-309
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1d ago
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Gdańsk, PL, 80-309
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aws, iceberg, kafka
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awsicebergkafkas3spark
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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Job ID: 4377</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Welcome to Core Technology, where we engineer solutions that directly support Nordea’s transformation. We provide a holistic technological view and a structured understanding of the bank and its surrounding environment, enabling the Customer Vision and the Nordea 2030 Strategy. A core pillar of this strategy is the modernization of our data estate, positioning data platforms as critical foundational enablers for advanced analytics and AI at scale. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">We are looking for a Senior Data Mesh Platforms Engineer to join our Data Mesh and AI Platforms team. You will join a small, agile team with a strong mandate to drive impact across Nordea. Your success after one year means we have stable, scalable, and reusable data platform capabilities in production, enabling domain teams to efficiently build and operate high‑quality data products. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">About our team </span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Welcome to the Data Mesh and AI team. We operate at the infrastructure layer of Nordea’s data estate, building and maintaining shared data platform capabilities that enable Data Mesh and large‑scale analytics and AI use cases. Our mission is to re‑use, integrate, and standardize technologies already adopted at Nordea, ensuring they are delivered in a consistent, secure, and scalable way across the organization. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">The team plays a key enabling role for the Data Product Hub under Group Data Management (GDM) by providing robust foundations for data integration, streaming, analytical storage, and governance. In this role you will contribute to the ongoing evolution of our platforms while also ensuring operational stability, reliability, and compliance in a banking‑grade environment. You will work closely with data product teams, platform owners and engineers, and AI stakeholders to ensure data products are discoverable, interoperable, and ready for AI and analytics consumption. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">This is a fulltime permanent position with a hybrid working location in Gdansk / Gdynia, Poland. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">What you’ll be doing:</span></strong></p>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Designing, implementing and maintaining headless data platform capabilities that support Data Mesh principles</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Integrating and standardizing data ingestion and streaming patterns</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Building and operating analytical data foundations based on Iceberg and Snowflake</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Enabling governed data access via Amazon S3, Lake Formation, and fine‑grained policies</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Supporting API‑based integration layers using Kong</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Enabling private connectivity via AWS PrivateLink or Google Private Service Connect </span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who you are</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">You have hands‑on experience building modern data platforms, understand Data Mesh principles, and can balance platform evolution with operational stability in a regulated environment. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Your background and skills include:</span></strong></p>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Professional experience working with Kafka, Iceberg and Snowflake </span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Professional experience working with data catalogs such as AWS Glue, or Open Catalog</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Professional experience working with AWS and / or GCP data platforms </span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Professional experience working with Lake Formation and S3 policies for Iceberg exposure</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Professional experience working with Terraform </span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">It would be ideal if you also have:</span></strong></p>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience with Spark and Flink</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience from regulated industries i.e. Banking, Government, etc.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">If this sounds like you, get in touch!</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Next steps</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">We kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 13/09/2026. Any applications or CVs sent by email, direct messages, or any other channel than our application forms, will not be accepted or considered. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics, and traits make us better at serving our customers and communities.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>We build relationships.</strong> We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>We learn and develop.</strong> 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.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>We lead change. </strong>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.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>We are Nordea. </strong>We have a 200-year 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. </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">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.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">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: <a href="https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf">https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">We reserve the right to reply only to selected applications.</span></p>