Senior Data Mesh Platforms Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026.
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.
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.
About our team
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.
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.
This is a fulltime permanent position with a hybrid working location in Gdansk / Gdynia, Poland.
What you'll be doing:
Designing, implementing and maintaining headless data platform capabilities that support Data Mesh principles
Integrating and standardizing data ingestion and streaming patterns
Building and operating analytical data foundations based on Iceberg and Snowflake
Enabling governed data access via Amazon S3, Lake Formation, and fine-grained policies
Supporting API-based integration layers using Kong
Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform
Enabling private connectivity via AWS PrivateLink or Google Private Service Connect
Who you are
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.
Your background and skills include:
Professional experience working with Kafka, Iceberg and Snowflake
Professional experience working with data catalogs such as AWS Glue, or Open Catalog
Professional experience working with AWS and / or GCP data platforms
Professional experience working with Lake Formation and S3 policies for Iceberg exposure
Professional experience working with Terraform
It would be ideal if you also have:
Experience with Spark and Flink
Experience from regulated industries i.e. Banking, Government, etc.
If this sounds like you, get in touch!
Next steps
We kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 31/10/2026. Any applications or CVs sent by email, direct messages, or any other channel than our application forms, will not be accepted or considered.
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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.