Information Architect, Group Data Management

Job ID: 5650

Would you like to be part of the organization enabling Nordea’s strategic Data and AI agenda? Do you believe that scale, reuse and business value are driven through standards, taxonomies, information modelling and semantic consistency? Then you might be the colleague we are looking for in Information Architecture team within Group Data Management’s Data Architecture & Governance unit.

We are looking for an Information Architects who will play a key role in building Nordea’s enterprise Information Architecture capability. You will help define the information foundations that enable data products, AI adoption, enterprise interoperability and consistent business understanding across the bank.

About our team

Meet the Information Architecture team. Our role is to define and evolve enterprise information standards, taxonomies, canonical models and semantic foundations across Nordea. We work closely with business stakeholders, Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture and domain teams to ensure that information is treated as a strategic enterprise asset.

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Play a key role in enabling Nordea’s strategic Data and AI transformation by ensuring consistent business terminology, reusable information structures, semantic alignment and scalable information models across domain-owned data products.
• Develop, implement and maintain canonical models, conceptual models and logical information models supporting the data product lifecycle.
• Drive enterprise-wide information standardization across domains and promote reuse of information assets.
• Act as a trusted advisor on Information Architecture topics for strategic initiatives and transformation programmes.
• Take an active role in relevant Data Councils, ensuring that Logical and Conceptual models are integrated closer
• Support the continued development of Nordea’s Information Architecture framework including BIM, CIM, canonical modelling and taxonomy standards.
• Collaborate with business stockholders, Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture to ensure consistency across business capabilities, processes and information structures.
• Drive metadata management, lineage and business glossary activities in a federated data product environment.
• Leverage AI, automation  and advanced analytical techniques to accelerate modelling, semantic discovery and information architecture practices.
• Facilitate modelling workshops and establish best practices for information architecture.
• Work in a federated model engaging business SMEs & data modelers in IT across domains.

Who you are

You possess solid experience in conceptual, logical and physical information modelling, with proven experience evolving models over time. You are motivated by creating enterprise standards, solving semantic challenges and bringing stakeholders together around a common understanding of information.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  

Your background and skills include: 

• 5+ years of experience in information modelling, information architecture, data architecture, data analytics or related disciplines.
• Practical experience developing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical information models.
• Experience with business glossaries, metadata management, taxonomies and semantic modelling.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Experience working in agile environments and collaborating across multiple domains.
• Understanding of modern data architecture principles including Data Mesh, Data Products and Data Governance is a plus.

It would be ideal if you also:

• You bring a strong domain knowledge from Business, Data councils or Warehouses or similar adding your unique experience.
• Establishing enterprise information standards across large organizations.
• Facilitating cross-domain alignment and resolving semantic conflicts.
• Working with multi-tool environments separating conceptual, logical and physical models.
• Financial services, risk, regulatory reporting or other complex data-intensive domains.
• AI-enabled modelling, knowledge graphs or semantic technologies.

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 culture that fosters performance and growth in 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

​Submit your application no later than 02/10/2026. 

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.

For candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.
 

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