Head of Data & Platform Engineering (NAM Portugal)

Job ID: 3426

Would you like to strongly impact our digitalization outcomes? We are now looking for a Head Platform & Data Engineering to lead our data platform and data engineering efforts in several important business domains and across our company.

Nordea Asset Management (NAM) is the centre of investment management in the Nordea Group and in the Asset & Wealth Management division. NAM is the largest asset manager in the Nordics with the vision of being a leading European Asset Manager. We want to do this by delivering returns with responsibility. We meet customer demands and guide our customers in the right direction in asset selection while ensuring prudent ESG practices. NAM has around 900 employees and more than 475 Nordic and international institutional clients.

About our team

Welcome to the Platform & Data Engineering team in NAM Engineering. We add value by working business outcome oriented and in cross functional value streams with a balanced mix of goals to chase. As a Leader, you’ll play a valuable role in innovation bets, engineering practices and team development.

What you'll be doing:

• Be hands-on in the code with delivering the product owner prioritized features to our Modern Data Platform and related AI platform.
• Lead skilled platform & data engineers based on industry thought leadership and appropriate methods.
• Shape team strategic outcomes within our Technology and Data Strategies.
• Facilitate engineering bets & trade-offs to maximize business outcomes, speed, quality and minimum viable compliance with an engaged team.
• Technical leadership within one or several technologies, architectures or techniques.

You’ll join a forward thinking, multi-disciplinary and engaged leadership team in NAM Engineering. The role is based in Oeiras (Paço de Arcos). 

Who you are

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

To do well in this role, we believe that you:

• Have high degree of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management skills.
• Are curious about appropriate technologies, methods and strategies for our business context.
• Show talent in leading; change, learning and focus on the right problems to solve.
• Find it exiting to get value out of GenAI, Data Mesh and a fast moving technical bets.

Your general experience and background: 

• Software Engineering or Data Engineering skills at expert level.
• Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering skills at advanced level.
• Good understanding of the interplay between ways of working, architectures and organisational outcomes.
• Relevant track record of technology-fuelled business outcomes.

In addition it is preferable if you have experience in any of the following:

• Experience working with Python in a data engineering capacity.
• Experience with SQL.
• Building and deploying containerised applications on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Snowflake.
• Familiarity with DBT.
• Building DAGs with Apache Airflow.
• AWS or other public cloud experience.
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform.
• Experience working in end-to-end delivery teams.
• Experience with a Data Mesh strategy.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 30/09/2026.

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 supporting our customers and communities. So please come as you are.

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