Tech Lead, Data Capabilities / Pohjola Insurance (Helsinki/Oulu)

We are looking for Tech Lead to lead architecture work at Data Capabilities tribe within our non-life insurance business area. Within OP Financial Group’s architecture leadership model, the Tech Lead is regarded as equivalent to a senior technical and technology architect role.

What is this role about?

Pohjola Insurance's business operations are based on comprehensive customer insight driven by data. The Data Capabilities tribe provides these capabilities to the insurance business, as its name suggests, through various data platform and information system services.

In addition to possessing deep expertise in the data domain and insurance business, your responsibility is to ensure that the Data Capabilities tribe adheres to the group's enterprise architecture principles across various IT domains, such as cloud, data, integration, and security. This role requires extensive collaboration with Tech Leads and Enterprise Architects in other business domains within your line organization, Development and Technologies, beyond your home tribe. You belong to the tribe leadership team but also collaborate frequently with all tribe teams. 

Your key areas of responsibility:
•    Accountable for ensuring each system within the tribe has a technical roadmap, including the appropriate cloud migration strategy (7R's) for public cloud adoption.
•    Accountable for managing and reducing technical debt and technology debt within the tribe.
•    Accountable for ensuring each system within the tribe has technical documentation that meets regulatory requirements and supports system operability.
•    Responsible for maintaining a holistic view of the tribe's IT systems' target state architecture, including a thorough understanding of the current architecture, and managing and steering the target state architecture to ensure alignment with the OP Financial Group’s enterprise architecture principles and guidelines. 
•    Responsible for providing clear guidance to each team on how to approach practical technical challenges.
•    Responsible for fostering and actively coordinating collaboration among technical personnel (developers, data engineers, data scientists, etc.) across the tribe.
•    Responsible for advising other tribe leadership roles on all technology-related matters.
•    Responsible for creating higher-level Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for the tribe.
•    Consulted for strategic ICT planning within the business area.

Note that being accountable does not mean you must execute those tasks yourself; your role is to lead the teams within your tribe to accomplish these larger objectives.

This opportunity is available in Helsinki or Oulu, depending on your preference. Like the rest of OP, we work flexibly, combining both office days and remote work. 

What do we expect from you?

We are seeking a candidate with strong experience in IT architecture and data, as well as a deep understanding of technology and technical issues (minimum of 5 years in similar kind of roles). Equally essential to success are excellent collaboration and communication skills with business management, as well as leadership and coaching abilities for guiding and mentoring developers. The ability to work independently and take initiative is crucial for thriving in this role.

More detailed list of technology knowledge and skills we expect from you:
•    Microsoft Azure
•    Microsoft Fabric
•    Databricks
•    Data platform concept and architecture
•    Information architecture
•    Integration architecture and technologies, specifically on event-driven model
 
Additionally, experience in the following will be helpful:

•    IFRS17 and Solvency II
•    SAS
•    Insurance business domain

Why OP? 

In internal surveys at OP, our employees often cite the work community and their highly skilled colleagues as the most rewarding aspects of their work. We take great pride in this. As a member of OP, you will join a company that is dedicated to developing the best products and services in the industry.

As an employer OP offers you a stable environment where people come first. Our people value good work-life balance and opportunities to learn and grow in their role. Our 70-20-10 model gives you a chance to focus on your professional development on your work time – by utilizing our very own OP Software Academy, for instance.

When you work for OP, you work with the best products and services in the field. In everyday life, it is, of course, very nice to work in an architecturally beautiful environment, in a location easily accessible from basically anywhere. As an OP employee, you are entitled to:
•    Structured model for professional career advancement
•    Possibility to enhance your own skillset while working with highly talented teams
•    Comprehensive occupational healthcare
•    Sport and cultural benefits
•    Benefits and discounts on OP’s own products  

Does this sound like your future role?

We are excited to have you join our team as soon as possible. To apply, please submit your application along with your salary expectations by the end of Sunday 3rd of November 2024 through our recruitment system. 

For more details about working in Data Capabilities tribe, please contact Tribe Lead Timo Tervo (tel. +358 40 522 8781, on 1st of November 2024 at 9-10), IT Area Lead Pasi Pikkarainen (+358 40 565 4602, on 1st of November 2024 at 10-11) and for further details about Tech Lead role and working at OP, feel free to contact Competence Lead Sami Sivunen (tel. +358 40 555 9089, on the 29th of October, at 15-16).

In the financial sector, our business is founded on trust and accountability, which is why the successful candidate will be checked for credit history and corporate connections, must take a drug test and a security clearance vetting made by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

OP Financial Group – We have something in common 

Diversity and equality are highly prized at OP Financial Group. We want everyone to feel welcome and valued, and we appreciate that diversity enriches us and brings new perspectives. We invite job applications from everyone, because we all have something in common. We’re thrilled that you want to join us on our shared journey.   

Owned by our customers, we are the most attractive financial sector employer in Finland. Our Group employs more than 14,000 professionals. We have a mission – to promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of our owner-customers and operating region. What we do matters, both to our employees and society in general. As the largest financial services group in Finland, we are building a better tomorrow; this has been our goal for more than 120 years. 

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