Join Our Team as a Senior Specialist in Data Architecture at OP Financial Group

About the Role

Are you experienced in developing data architecture within the finance sector? OP Financial Group is seeking a dedicated Senior Specialist in Data Architecture to innovate and manage the data architecture for our regulatory reporting department.

Our Regulatory Reporting unit is responsible for mandated institutional reporting to various authorities, including but not limited to the ECB, SRB, Bank of Finland, and Statistics Finland. We oversee comprehensive reporting frameworks related to group-level finances, financial statements, solvency, and financial risks.

Currently composed of six teams—five focused on reporting and one on building shared data capabilities—you will collaborate extensively across all teams, ensuring the integration and sophisticated evolution of our data architecture.

Key Responsibilities

As our Senior Specialist, Data Architecture, a newly created role, you will:

• Take charge of the overall data architecture for regulatory reporting at OP Financial Group.
• Align new regulatory demands and product innovations with concrete data needs, considering the specific features of each team or reporting sector.
• Work closely with business operations and our Data Warehousing sector to ensure regulatory requirements are met, enabling high-quality and timely reporting.
• Standardize and enhance our ELT/ETL data architecture, manage data quality, documentation, processes, and facilitate collaboration across teams.

This position is based in our Vallila office in Helsinki, but accommodates a flexible blend of remote and on-site work within Finland.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in the financial sector, particularly with product reporting and data exploration.
• Background in utilizing tools such as SAS, DataStage, Teradata, Databricks, and Azure.
• Strong independent, adaptable, and long-term work methodology combined with excellent communication skills in both Finnish and English.
• An academic degree in either a commercial or technical field at undergraduate or graduate level.

If you identify with the above and are ready to tackle this challenge, we eagerly await your application. Join us and contribute to enhancing our reporting capabilities.

Why OP Financial Group?

At OP Financial Group, your actions and attitude can shape your career path. We support your development and encourage progress with ample career opportunities. Spend 10% of your worktime on personal development, tailored to your interests and team needs, supported by initiatives like our OP Software Academy.

We also reward excellent work through our comprehensive benefits package, including performance-based bonus systems, a staff fund, and employee-beneficial banking and insurance services.

Life is more than just work, which is why we value work-life balance and offer flexibility through adjustable working hours and remote work options.

Interested in shaping the future with us? Great – that’s what we hoped! Apply now through our recruitment system by Wednesday, 15 May 2024. For more details, contact Regulatory Reporting’s Competence Lead Maria Ylönen at 050 480 1110 or Data Team's Product Owner Sirpa Prusti at 050 574 7894.

At OP Financial Group, we embrace equality and diversity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We welcome all genders, ages, cultural, and minority groups.

OP Financial Group is Finland’s largest financial services group, owned by our customers and known as one of the country’s most attractive employers in the financial sector. Our team exceeds 13,000 professionals who provide banking, investment, insurance, and real estate services to over four million customers. Discover more about OP as an employer and our available positions at www.op-careers.fi.

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