Solution Architect – Banking, IT Development

You will be part of the Architecture Chapter within digital delivery organization at Ikano Bank. Within this role you help us achieve ambitious goals. We are looking for a person who is inspired by change. You will be part of Ikano Bank, where we create possibilities for a better living by providing banking and financial services. We do it with different perspectives, natural curiosity and long-term focus. A unique chance for greater responsibility and future opportunities. Let’s achieve great things together.

We create solutions that simplify finance

We are looking for a solution architect with long experience in design, implementation, review of complex IT systems, which has a strong understanding of solutions innovation. The ideal candidate has several years of experience working as a solution architect. You have an ability to dive deep into various hands-on solutions while developing new solutions/services and make strong contributions in architectural discussions.

You possess strong technical and communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics to user stories and tasks, to help development teams in their designs and solutions. You will be responsible for a specific domain within our eco system and work in a truly agile manner together with business team, product owners and other architects. The role will ensure all architectural guidance and directions for the DevSecOps teams are followed. You possess strong technical and communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics to business stakeholders as well as translate business topics into technical designs. The position will report to the Chapter Lead for the Architectural team and will be based in Malmö or greater Copenhagen region. We expect the selected candidate to available onsite in out Malmö office couple of days a week.

Are you the one for Ikano?

Skills Needed

• Long years of hands-on experience development to deployment. Able to design, oversee comprehensive AWS Cloud solutions that align with business requirements and technical standards leveraging AWS Cloud Services, Java with Springboot / Python, Apache Kafka , security automation.
• Hands on experience in using different AWS components needed for API Integrations such as AWS API Gateway, AWS Secret Manager, AWS CloudWatch, S3 Buckets, etc.
• Can lead the architecture design and implementation of complex banking products (Loans, Cards, Payments)
• Knowledge on application Monitoring, Vulnerability Scanning and Patch Management
• Knowledge on AWS Kubernetes clusters
• Practice in DevSecOps working methodology and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibility

• Working together with other solution architects and identify technical enablers for banking solutions.
• Be a leader within the DevSecOps team you will be responsible for
• Creating architecture design assets and implementing together with the team
• Set high level solution designs ensure they are well documented and communicated
• Ensure that the architecture for new initiatives are aligned with the Enterprise Architectural roadmap and overall Ikano guidelines and target architecture
• Reviews and approval of key design documents, review of code
• Support colleagues with less experience.
• Undertake code design and architectural reviews.
• Maintaining quality by ensuring thoroughness in all of the steps of the development processes.
• Take or call for actions when quality flaws are discovered.
• Continuously improving the code, design, documentation in assigned technical area.
• Short- & long-term risk management including mitigation suggestions
• Contribute to strategic roadmap, goals and vision by working together with product owner and product managers

Experience

• Several years of successful professional experience in Architecture design and implantation
• Design, develop using APIs/SDKs/Microservice
• Prior experience on Banking industry knowledge is an added advantage. We at Ikano Bank are following BIAN model
• Agile Development methodologies practices
• Fluent in English – both spoken and written!
• Ability to work in a team and within Ikano’s values

Join us now – together we will find a better way

You can reach Pravat Dalbehera at pravat.dalbehera@ikano.se, architecture chapter lead, if you want to know more about the role. Let’s achieve great things together. Please send your application latest by 20th January 2025.

About us

Ikano Bank offers simple and attractive savings and loan products for consumers, sales support services for retailers, and leasing and factoring solutions for corporate customers. Ikano Bank has a presence in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK, Poland, Germany and Austria. Ikano Bank is part of Ikano Group, who is an international group of companies operating in the areas of banking, insurance, residential and retail. At Ikano, our vision is to create possibilities for better living. We do this by working together to create simple and meaningful solutions based on fair terms that bring value to our customers. Ikano Group was established in 1988 and is owned by the Kamprad family. Find out more about us on www.ikanogroup.com