Expert Equity Trading Business Specialist

O projekcie

This is the right role for you if you

• Are self-driven and motivated
• Proactively seek for improvement opportunities
• Efficiently cooperate with your peers in business and development to constantly deliver high quality service

Your background and skills include

• Business understanding of Order Management Systems (Electronic Trading) in Capital Markets domain (MUST)
• Hands on experience in Python programming language (MUST)
• You are a critical thinker with analytical approach towards solving problems, as well as you are a good communicator and team player
• You are flexible in terms of task stack (operations / development / analysis)
• You have experience supporting business critical application in high pace environment
• You understand on basic level lifecycle of application/development
• You are interested in, how backend of trading works
• You are good at shifting priorities and self-managing your workload
• MUST-HAVE:
• Front Arena - or a deep knowledge about the equity trading domain
• Knowledge of fix protocol
• Experience in using CI/CD pipelines

Nice-to-have

• SQL (Intermediate level)
• Monitoring

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 15/11/2026.

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.

If you are an external consultant interested in this role and wish to apply please contact the hiring people leader for separate instruction on how to apply.

Wymagania Job ID: 4256

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct 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 the Business Strategy.

We are looking for an Equity Trading Business Specialist (Senior/Expert) to strengthen our Equity DevOps area. If you are passionate about trading technology, complex real-time systems, resiliency or DevOps, and having a close dialog with traders to ensure everything runs smoothly, then this might be a perfect fit! The role is based in Poland, ideally Tricity (Gdańsk/Gdynia), optionally Warsaw.

The Equity DevOps team is a group of senior technologists, responsible for Nordea’s equity trading platforms. The platforms provide a wide range of business capabilities, including order management, exchange connectivity, risk and position management, as well as low-latency market making, covering equity cash products, derivatives and funds.

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 this opportunity

Up to a billion transactions are handled by this infrastructure daily, the majority driven by automated trading logic with high demands on performance, stability and scalability under load. The platforms are required to handle extreme market conditions, including once-in-a-decade market crashes and rallies. You will be closely cooperating with the development and trading teams in our headquarters in central Stockholm and Copenhagen and will be one of a few people responsible for supporting and improving the way of working for our traders. Nordea Technology is organized around competence areas, such as SW Development, IT Analysis and Application Maintenance. Your home will be in the Application Maintenance capability. Engineers from the various competence areas come together in DevOps teams, which is where the business value is delivered through projects or application maintenance and support. You will be part in one of the Equity DevOps teams. In Application Maintenance you will drive the best practices and standards around how Nordea delivers application maintenance, while in Equities DevOps team you will deliver solutions around the trading applications.

About our team

Meet the Front Office Appllication Maintenance Equity Trading Solutions team. Our role is to provide application support to Nordea’s equity trading desks. As Equity Trading Business Specialist (Senior/Expert), you’ll play a valuable role in keeping the lights on in our application area. You will also participate in projects and discussions with business and will to some extent coordinate work within the sub-team.

You’ll join a team of 10 skilled engineers focused on delivering business value. The role is based in Poland, ideally Tricity (Gdańsk/Gdynia), and mandatory 3 days a week presence is office is required.

Main responsibilities in this role

• Component Upgrades in Front Arena space
• Refining the decoupling legacy flows (Front Arena)
• Performance improvement of OMNI, Front Arena
• Taking care of more complicated issues, requiring involving several teams
• Working with Incident, Change and Problem Management
• Constantly working on simplifying and modernizing the trading applications
• Managing automation projects for supported applications and working environment
• Maintaining and expanding our business flow monitoring
• Creating and updating knowledge base
• Maintaining relations with stakeholders (Traders)
• Translating business requirements into IT language and ensuring timely delivery
• Taking part in multiple projects for the area
• Communicating with vendor support teams