Strategic Partner, Data Uplift lead for Data Risk Reduction

Job ID: 28380

Welcome to Group Data Management. We are a unit that works across the entire data value chain. We pride ourselves on enabling data solutions by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank and its data.

We are now looking for a highly ambitious and experienced lead, who will be responsible for one of our main initiatives to remediate the Data Risk of the bank. 

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We’re not just a bank, we’re a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About the opportunity

You will join the Data Factory department, we add value by delivering data driven solutions in Nordea. We are a team with talented and experienced data experts and data engineers.

We are on a mission of harmonizing data for various business, legal and regulatory use cases across the bank, while covering the different Data Management disciplines.

We are now looking for a lead to remediate the Data Risk of the bank, with a focus on implementing a harmonization of the data flows from the sources to risk reports, including implementing the data governance and data quality requirements.

You will be responsible for this large project on behalf of the head of the Data Factory department and be a member of the management team. You will be supported by experienced project managers, leaders and data experts, while expected to be a self-starter with high standards and a bias towards action. Delivery requires close collaboration with teams across the Group.

What you’ll be doing

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Project Coordination: key contributor and provide special support to a high-impact, Group-wide programmes, involving working closely with stakeholders across the Group.
• Secure value creation: Seek new ways to enhance the value creation of our programme and ensure that the strategy is leading to execution and measurable results.
• Advisory: Help decision-makers in understanding consequences of decisions.
• Collaboration: Interact with internal stakeholders to facilitate the management of the programme.
• Reporting and communication: Participate in relevant business, project, change and risk management activities to ensure that knowledge is shared, and risks are adequately managed.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements in programme management processes, ensuring efficient collaboration between Agile and Waterfall teams.

In addition, you will step into a key role thereby helping in the resolution of issues by working closely with different stakeholders across Nordea. This is where your track record, energy and willingness to make an impact is needed to contribute and support experts and managers to ensure a solid and strategic risk management perspective, which will directly impact on the financial performance, efficiency, competitiveness and overall success of Nordea.

You will be leading this large initiative in the Data Factory team in a matrix set-up. This role does not have a line manager responsibility.

Who you are

You are an experienced professional joining us as our new Strategic Partner/project lead. You have a proven track record in large programmes, understands risk management and likes to challenge oneself in a highly paced and complex environment. You might have experience in working with data risk and might be familiar with the BCBS 239 principles, etc. You are passionate about working in an ever-changing environment. Ideally you have experience in projects with regulatory deliveries and attention.

This is the right role for you if: 

• Have superior analytical skills and the ability to apply them to risk.
• Can manage strategic assignments to help implement the execution plans.
• Have excellent networking, collaboration and communication skills to provide partnership while aligning and cooperating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Can manage and support the management of larger and complex projects.
• Can work independently, conduct analysis and assessments and draft proposals based on these.
• Have good knowledge of business operational and compliance risk tools.
• Have experience with infrastructure and change initiatives in legacy-based IT-environments.
• Are proactive, able to manage multiple tasks, and execution-oriented.
• Are well organized with a structured approach that makes it easy to co-operate with. 
• Contribute to a great team performance.

Your background and skills include:

• Master’s degree.
• 5+ years of proven experience in the Data Management domain with exposure to at least the following disciplines Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Engineering, Data Modelling & Design, Reference & Master data and Metadata.
• Understanding of the banks industry’s operations and how data drives those operations.
• Experience with project management methodologies and practices (SAFe Agile & Waterfall)
• Written and spoken English on a superior level is required.          

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.  

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culturethat fosters performance and growthin one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model– we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. 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.

We lead change. 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.

We are Nordea. 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.

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.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

Only for candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.

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