Application and IT Risk Manager, NLP SE Full-time

Job ID: 26965

Are you passionate about technology risk and compliance? Would you like build experience in strengthening the relationship between business and technology through application governance in Nordea Life & Pension Sweden, where technology plays a key role for business? We are looking for an Application and IT Risk Manager to drive compliance in our applications and to ensure applications continue to meet the requirements and needs of Nordea and its customers.

At Nordea, we see that the world is changing fast – and we want to be one step ahead of the curve. That’s why we’re deeply committed to providing the financial solutions of tomorrow to our customers. We’re creating an agile environment where we experiment and grow together – and we need your ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with a chance to make your mark on something bigger.

Your future responsibilities

You will play a valuable role in supporting the business by driving activities for application management in order to help us stay competitive, protect data, and meet legal and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll be doing:

• Be responsible for keeping applications within risk appetite, driving risk mitigation activities, proactively identifying stakeholders to support with delivering on compliance, and driving budget considerations for application maintenance
• Be responsible for the communication, implementation, and development of key initiatives and rules of Application Management Governance , such as verifying failover tests, backup testing and monitoring, access management, application risk assessments, vulnerability management and pen testing management, etc.
• Proactively manage relationships with stakeholders and support with setting priorities and expectations, drive and establish clear and efficient process with our technology and business units
• Create and drive new processes to ensure a clear line of communication with business and technology stakeholders to understand their needs; drive and translate these requirements into application-related initiatives
• Taking ownership and accountability of assigned tasks and processes as an Application Manager, including verifying and initiating and driving mitigation actions, understanding root causes of risks, and risk reporting to stakeholders
• Participate and at times drive initiatives/projects require knowledge of applications, supporting with IAM, ITAM, and business continuity uplift, support with data flow mapping, support with identifying stakeholders who can deliver on tasks or should be kept in the information loop
• Review technology-related internal rules impacting NLP SE and ensure the NLP SE perspective is represented and noted
• Keep up to date on rules that impact the compliancy of applications, including communication/training for other team members, stakeholders and proactively present recommendations for improvement

The role is based in Stockholm.

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. We are looking for a pro-active, energetic and result driven individual to take this role to the next level!

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have strong stakeholder management skills
• Have a strong cultural awareness and a dynamic approach, willing to take on extra responsibilities when needed
• Understanding of application operations and management tasks including the business logic behind applications and data in order to be proactive in asserting business requirements and adapting the application to suit business needs
• Understand or have the capacity to understand the business logic so that you can translate business requirements to technology stakeholders
• Can interpret vulnerability reports, provide recommendations and assist with finding the right stakeholders
• Can contribute towards business and technical documentation related to applications and/or application management
• Have personal drive for results combined with an ability to plan own and others’ work involved in investigating and solving application quality issues to meet agreed deadlines
• Have good analytics skills and a structured and methodical approach to tasks
• Have the ability to take both a high-level view and to pay attention to details
• Have Excellent language skills in English and Swedish, both written and spoken

Your experience and background:

• You have technology background, preferably in application management or project management
• You have experience from working with ITIL processes such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management
• Information security, technology risk/compliance, DORA, project implementation is an advantage
• You have a minimum of 1 year relevant experience working with technology risk and compliance or as an Application Owner/Manager

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 19/12/2024. The interviews will be held on an ongoing basis, so we urge candidates to apply as soon as possible. For more information, you’re welcome to contact BCIO Nordea Life & Pension Sweden, Susanne Wolrath at susanne.wolrath@nordea.se.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.

For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.

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