Senior Strategic Partner needed for supporting ICT Risk Resilience Programme(s)

Job ID: 31770

Would you like to be part of a larger resilience initiative impacting how Nordea governs and implements activities to strengthen its ICT risks (Information Security, Technology Operations & Business Continuity) We are looking for an IT Project Lead to take ownership of driving deliveries within one of the workstreams under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) programme in Nordea.

About this opportunity

As the Senior Strategic Partner, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the activities within your assigned workstream to ensure timely and high-quality delivery. You will play a key role in translating programme objectives into concrete outcomes for your workstream, supported by subject matter experts and stakeholders across Technology, Group Operational Risk and the Business Areas.

To succeed in this role, you must be a proactive self-starter with strong execution skills and a hands-on approach to driving deliveries and ensuring progress. You take ownership of your workstream end-to-end, ensuring that plans are executed with precision and quality. You are comfortable structuring complex deliveries into clear and actionable steps, keeping momentum and holding yourself and others accountable for results.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and coordinate the activities within your assigned workstream, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives and timelines.
• Translate programme goals into actionable plans, manage progress, and ensure delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate with SMEs, stakeholders, and other workstream leads to secure input, remove blockers and drive progress.
• Prepare and present updates, status reports, and communication material for management and stakeholders.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and issues within the workstream, escalating when needed to ensure progress.
• Apply a structured and organized approach, ensuring activities are executed in line with frameworks and expectations.
• Support a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement within the workstream.

The role is based in Helsinki, Copenhagen (Taastrup office), Stockholm (Lindhagen office).

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you have:

• A strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• A solution-oriented mindset and a passion for driving change.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Organized ways of working, with the ability to structure plans and manage execution.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to distill complexity into clear decisions.

Your experience and background:

• Experience in leading or coordinating IT projects, workstreams, or similar initiatives in complex environments.
• Background from ICT, risk, resilience, or related areas.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 30/11/2025. For more information, you’re welcome to contact hiring leader Kalpash Solanki at kalpash.solanki@nordea.com. Please note that we will proceed with potential candidates already during the application period. If you have any question about recruitment steps you may contact our recruiter Chhavi Palta at chhavi.palta@nordea.com. 

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.

Only for candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.