Product Owner - Cloud Landing Zone Services Azure

Nordea is a large Nordic bank undergoing digital transformation, focusing on secure and responsible finance. The Cloud Engineering team provides secure and reliable cloud foundations to enable efficient delivery of digital services across the bank.

Experience:

• 8+ years of Cloud Engineering experience
• 3+ years as Product Owner, Platform Owner, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect
• Experience operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms
• Experience working within Agile delivery models
• Experience managing technical roadmaps and backlogs

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code
• Proficient in GitHub or Git-based development workflows and pull request reviews
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of cloud security controls
• Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms
• Understanding of networking and cloud connectivity
• Familiarity with Identity and Access Management
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling

Leadership Skills:

• Excellent stakeholder management
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Strategic mindset with hands-on execution capability
• Ability to challenge and drive decisions across senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Product Ownership:

• Own the roadmap and vision for Azure
• Prioritize platform capabilities balancing business demand, security, compliance, and technical debt
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog with Cloud PM
• Define and track KPIs, adoption metrics, reliability targets, and customer satisfaction
• Present roadmap, risks, and achievements to senior leadership and governance forums

Cloud Engineering:

• Actively contribute to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code development
• Conduct code reviews and pull request approvals
• Review and challenge technical designs and implementation approaches
• Support engineering teams with solution design, troubleshooting, and decisions
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform standards, and reusable modules
• Ensure services meet Nordea's security, resilience, and compliance requirements
• Participate in major incident reviews and platform improvement initiatives

Platform Strategy & Architecture:

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams
• Drive standardization and simplification of cloud platform services
• Evolve the Landing Zone to support AI, Data, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Developer Platforms
• Engage with cloud vendor (Microsoft Azure) on roadmap alignment
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and cost reduction

Stakeholder Management:

• Build relationships across engineering, application, security, architecture, and business teams
• Gather platform consumer feedback and translate into roadmap priorities
• Drive consensus and decision-making across multiple stakeholders
• Represent Cloud Engineering in governance, transformation, and audit activities

Accountability:

• Product vision and roadmap
• Product backlog prioritization
• Platform adoption and customer satisfaction
• Delivery of planned capabilities
• Landing Zone engineering standards
• Platform reliability and resilience
• Security and compliance alignment
• Technical quality of platform changes
• Engineering governance and code review quality

The recruitment process includes preliminary CV selection, online interview with the hiring leader, and background check. Applications are accepted until 19/09/2026. Candidates must include explicit consent for processing personal data according to GDPR and Polish laws as stated in the job description. Nordea reserves the right to reply only to selected applications.