AI Gateway Product Owner, Data Mesh and AI Platforms team

Nordea is a financial services company transforming through technology, focusing on modernizing its technology and data estate and accelerating AI-enabled capabilities adoption. The role is part of the Data Mesh and AI Platforms team within the Integration and AI unit, providing integration platforms like Kong and Kafka and extending to an AI Gateway platform covering LLMs, MCP, and A2A patterns in a regulated banking environment.

• Proven experience as a Product Owner of a technical platform.
• Experience with API management or gateway platforms such as Kong, IBM API Connect/DataPower, Apigee, or Cloud Gateways.
• Hands-on experience with LLM gateways or model/agent onboarding workflows.
• Knowledge of agents, MCP, and A2A workings and securing/governing them through gateways across multiple clouds and cloud-native AI stacks.
• Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure and their native AI stacks like Bedrock and Gemini AI.
• Experience working in agile delivery teams managing backlog, prioritization, and sprint planning.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with architecture, risk, compliance, and engineering teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kong API/AI Gateway.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks relevant to financial services, such as the EU AI Act, DORA, or GDPR.
• Background in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries.
• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Informatics, or related disciplines, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional experience as a Product Owner, Platform Architect, or similar role within technology or platform engineering.

• Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Nordea's AI Gateway and AI Registry capabilities.
• Translate regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act, DORA, and GDPR into platform capabilities and backlog priorities.
• Serve as the primary contact between engineering, architecture, risk and compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Drive onboarding of new use cases including LLM access via AWS Bedrock and GCP Gemini AI, MCP servers, and A2A agent-to-agent patterns.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams, architects, and the self-service portal team to enhance developer experience.
• Define and track success metrics for platform adoption, governance coverage, and operational maturity.
• Represent the AI Gateway platform in governance forums and support leadership updates on capability and roadmap progress.

For candidates in Finland: a security clearance will be performed for the selected candidate.

For candidates in Poland: please include permit for processing personal data in CV according to GDPR regulations, with details provided about personal data processing by Nordea Bank Abp. Only selected applications will be replied to.