{"id":2115004,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nordea-ai-gateway-engineer-data-mesh-and-ai-platforms-team","title":"AI Gateway Engineer, Data Mesh and AI Platforms team","company":{"id":449481,"name":"Nordea","domain":"nordea.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nordea-4","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":13,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":18,"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Helsinki, Finland"],"countries":["FI"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":43000,"max_usd":115000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":23},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"A2A","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"API Gateway","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"Kong","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Lua","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Bedrock AgentCore","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"GDPR","optional":true},{"name":"Gemini","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-26T02:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T07:31:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":40,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":40},"description":"Job ID: 6280\nWelcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and leading Nordea's transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and Business Strategy.\nAs part of Nordea's 2030 strategic direction, we are modernizing our technology and data estate while accelerating the adoption of AI-enabled capabilities across the bank. We are looking for an engineer to help design, build, and operate our enterprise AI Gateway. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on extending our API platforms to support LLM, MCP, and A2A patterns, with the automation needed to make these capabilities reliable, reusable, and production-ready.\nAbout our team\nThe Data Mesh and AI Platforms team is part of the Integration and AI unit. We provide the integration platforms that connect Nordea, including Kong and Kafka, and we are now extending that same platform approach to an AI Gateway covering LLMs, MCP, and A2A. You will help engineer the gateway capabilities, infrastructure automation, and reusable patterns that allow teams to consume AI services securely and consistently in a regulated banking environment.\nThe team works closely with architects, cybersecurity, data governance, risk and compliance, cloud platform teams, and consuming engineering teams to ensure our solutions are pragmatic, compliant, and production-ready. You will be expected to bring strong hands-on engineering experience with API platforms and gateways, combined with solid knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD, OpenAPI specifications, source control practices, IdP integration, observability, monitoring, and FinOps.\nThis is a full-time permanent position with a hybrid working arrangement-up to 40% remote work is possible, but full remote work is not allowed. We expect to hire in one of these cities: Gdańsk or Gdynia, Poland; or Helsinki, Finland.\nYour main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:\nDesign, build and operate AI Gateway capabilities based on strong API platform and gateway engineering practices.\nImplement secure and reusable gateway patterns for LLM access, MCP servers, and A2A agent-to-agent integrations.\nDevelop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and support automated provisioning of gateway components.\nBuild and improve CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and release practices for gateway configuration and platform changes.\nSet up and automate gateway policies to expose AI capabilities in a consistent, governed, and developer-friendly way.\nCreate and extend Kong plugins using languages such as Lua and Python to support custom gateway capabilities and integrations.\nIntegrate the AI Gateway with enterprise identity providers and support authentication, authorization, and access control patterns.\nSet up logging, monitoring and alerting for gateway services, including observability dashboards & operational insights using tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.\nEstablish FinOps capabilities for AI Gateway usage, including cost visibility, consumption tracking, and support for cost control mechanisms.\nSupport onboarding of new use cases onto the AI Gateway and contribute to platform documentation, reusable templates, and engineering standards.\nWho you are\nThis is the right role for you if you:\nAre a strong platform engineer: You have hands-on experience designing, configuring, and operating API platforms and gateways in enterprise environments.\nAre comfortable with modern engineering and operational practices: You have solid knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD, source control, IdP integration, monitoring, alerting, and automated deployment patterns.\nUnderstand AI integration patterns: You have, or are motivated to build, knowledge of LLM access patterns, MCP, A2A, and how these can be secured and governed through gateway capabilities across cloud-native AI stacks.\nWhat w're looking for:\nEducation and Experience:A BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Informatics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nProfessional experience as a Platform Engineer, API Gateway Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Architect, or similar hands-on engineering role.\n\nRequired qualifications:Strong hands-on experience with API platforms and gateway technologies in enterprise environments.\nExperience with gateway platforms such as Kong, IBM API Connect/DataPower, cloud-native gateways, or similar API management technologies.\nSolid knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.\nExperience with Kubernetes and Helm charts for deploying and managing platform or gateway components.\nSolid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and automated release practices.\nSolid knowledge of Python and Lua for creating, extending, and maintaining Kong plugins.\nSolid knowledge of IdP integration, authentication, authorization, and access control patterns for gateways.\nExperience setting up logging, monitoring, and alerting, including work with observability tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.\nUnderstanding of FinOps practices, including cost visibility, consumption tracking, and guardrails for platform usage.\nExperience working with OpenAPI specifications, API contracts, gateway policies, and developer-facing platform documentation.\nAbility to work closely with architects, security, risk, compliance, and engineering teams in a regulated environment.\n\nPreferred qualifications:Experience with Kong API/AI Gateway specifically.\nExperience deploying gateways to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nFamiliarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and cloud-native AI services such as Bedrock, AWS Agent Core, Google Gemini AI, or Azure AI Foundry.\n\nIf this sounds like you, get in touch!\nNext steps\nSubmit your application no later than 31/10/2026.\nOnly for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.\nOnly for candidates in Poland: Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:\nIn 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.\nThe 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. 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