Lead Snowflake Developer

Job ID: 6415

Lead Snowflake Developer (permanent position)

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 experienced Lead Snowflake Developer who will provide technical leadership to other Snowflake developers by establishing and applying engineering standards, reviewing code, and offering hands-on guidance to ensure scalable, secure, and high-quality data solutions.

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 our team

Meet the Regulatory Reporting Software Development Team. We deliver end-to-end technology solutions for Nordea's Regulatory Reporting Service Domain - from building and maintaining software to automating key processes and supporting critical platforms. Our work keeps Group Function Technology running smoothly and compliantly, and we are now expanding into AI to unlock the next wave of efficiency and intelligence for the bank.

What you'll be doing

As a Lead Snowflake Developer, you will:

- Lead the design and development of scalable Snowflake data platforms, dimensional models, and reliable data pipelines for regulatory reporting and enterprise analytics.

- Set the technical direction and ensure solution designs, SQL, and code meet standards for quality, maintainability, security, and regulatory compliance.

- Optimize Snowflake performance and cost through effective query tuning, warehouse sizing, workload management, and platform monitoring.

- Drive consistent engineering practices for data modelling, lineage, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability, and operational resilience.

- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders, mentor engineers, and promote continuous improvement across the data platform team.

Who you are

You will thrive in this role if you:

- Combine deep Snowflake expertise with a practical, hands-on approach to designing scalable data platforms and solving complex engineering challenges.

- Translate business and regulatory requirements into secure, reliable, and maintainable data solutions in close collaboration with stakeholders and engineering teams.

- Take ownership of technical direction, make sound architectural decisions, and drive delivery from design through production support.

- Raise engineering standards through mentoring, constructive code reviews, and consistent practices for quality, governance, automation, and operational resilience.

- Communicate clearly, act proactively, and balance delivery priorities with performance, cost, security, and long-term maintainability.

Your background and skills include:

- Extensive hands-on experience designing and developing enterprise data warehouse solutions on Snowflake, supported by advanced SQL and dimensional data modelling skills.

- Strong experience building reliable ELT/ETL pipelines and orchestrated data workflows using Python and modern data integration tools.

- Proven ability to optimize Snowflake query performance, warehouse utilization, scalability, and cost for high-volume data workloads.

- Practical knowledge of secure cloud data engineering, including role-based access control, data protection, auditability, lineage, and regulatory compliance requirements.

- Demonstrated technical leadership through solution design, code reviews, CI/CD and testing practices, stakeholder collaboration, and mentoring of data engineers.

It would be ideal if you also:

- Hold a SnowPro certification or equivalent credentials demonstrating advanced expertise in Snowflake architecture and development.

- Have experience with Snowpark, dbt, stream and task automation, or Snowflake capabilities such as secure data sharing and Cortex AI.

- Bring experience from banking, financial services, or regulatory reporting environments with demanding data governance, lineage, audit, and resilience requirements.

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 11/11/2026.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

- Preliminary CV selection

- Online interview with the hiring leader

- Background check

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.

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