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Windows Server Platform Owner
Nordea
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Posted Oct 20
About this role
Job ID: 6867 Windows Platform Owner (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 seeking a Windows Platform Owner to take end-to-end accountability for our core on-premise enterprise Windows ecosystem. In this role, you will define the roadmap, technical standards, and lifecycle management for our operating system footprint across physical bare-metal servers, virtualization layers, and private cloud architectures. You will balance hands-on architectural governance with strategic planning to ensure maximum reliability, security, and scalability for our infrastructure. 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 Our Core Engineering Team is the backbone of Nordea global technology ecosystem. We are a high-impact group of engineers dedicated to designing, automating, and maintaining the enterprise-scale Windows and Unix infrastructure that powers our entire organization. We don't just maintain servers; we treat infrastructure as code. Our mission is to build highly secure, resilient, and self-healing platforms across thousands of physical, virtual, and cloud environments. We are a collaborative, forward-thinking team that bridges the gap between traditional infrastructure and modern cloud architecture. Main responsibilities in this role: • Platform Lifecycle & Roadmap Strategy : Define, publish, and execute the multi-year technical roadmap for enterprise Windows Server platforms. Manage version lifecycles, core baseline configurations, and long-term servicing channel (LTSC) migration paths to eliminate technical debt before End-of-Life (EOL) or End-of-Support (EOS) dates. • On-Premise Architecture & Standardization: Design, build, and govern the enterprise Windows "Gold Image" blueprints (WIM/ISO) for bare-metal deployments and hypervisors (VMware, Openshift). Establish standardized OS profiles, registry baselines, and core subsystem configurations across the entire corporate data center footprint. • Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration: Own the design and implementation of automated Windows provisioning pipelines and configuration management frameworks. Enforce Infrastructure as Code principles using tools like PowerShell DSC, Terraform, and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM/SCCM) to ensure configuration consistency and eliminate manual drift. • Security, Compliance & Patch Governance: Define platform hardening baselines in alignment with Microsoft Security Baselines, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, and internal InfoSec policies via Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and Intune. Architect and oversee the automated patch deployment pipeline, ensuring vulnerabilities are remediated within strict corporate SLAs without disrupting application availability. • Capacity, Performance & Compute Planning: Monitor and analyze enterprise-wide Windows infrastructure telemetry to forecast future compute, memory, and storage requirements. Partner with hardware engineering team to evaluate next-generation server technology and guide hardware refresh cycles based on platform demands. • Identity, Networking & Storage Integration: Govern the integration standards between the Windows Server platform and centralized enterprise infrastructure. This includes robust Active Directory / Entra ID identity fabrics, core network services (Microsoft DNS, DHCP), and enterprise storage protocols. • Vendor & Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Management: Act as the primary technical interface for Microsoft vendor. Manage Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, software assurance benefits, core-based licensing models, and handle high-severity technical Microsoft Premier/Unified Support escalations. Who you are Desirable experience and skills (you don't have to have them all, to be a good candidate): • Enterprise Windows Expertise: Deep knowledge of Windows Server operating system internals (including Registry architecture, LSASS, and WMI/CIM providers), Performance Monitor (PerfMon) analysis, advanced crash dump analysis, and complex system initialization/boot troubleshooting. • On-Premise Infrastructure: Solid experience hosting Windows Server workloads on enterprise hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI) and managing physical server infrastructure hardware lifecycle interfaces (HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC). • Scripting & Automation: Proficient in writing, auditing, and scaling advanced PowerShell modules, PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration), Terraform templates, and enterprise configuration deployment via MECM/SCCM or Intune. • Enterprise Identity & Storage: Experience architecting and integrating core infrastructure components with enterprise Active Directory (AD), Azure AD/Entra ID, Group Policy Object (GPO) frameworks, and mapping high-performance Windows storage via SMB/CIFS protocols and Fibre Channel SAN/NAS arrays. • Platform Ownership Mindset: Ability to treat infrastructure as a scalable internal product, prioritizing features, upgrades, and technical debt based on business value. Experience in calculating, optimizing, and justifying the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for hardware, Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA), core-based licensing models, and Software Assurance contracts. • Stakeholder Influence: Strong communication skills to bridge technical execution with leadership priorities, collaborating across InfoSec, Network, and Applications teams. Act as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise vendors (Microsoft), managing Microsoft Premier/Unified Support contracts, escalations, and technical alignment. Capability to manage an infrastructure backlog, deciding when to prioritize technical debt (e.g., OS version upgrades, security baselines) versus onboarding new business capabilities. • Lifecycle & Continuity Management: Experience architecting high-availability (HA) via Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions tailored to on-premise constraints. Orchestrating complex, multi-year migration strategies for thousands of Windows servers before versions reach End of Extended Support (EOS/EOL), minimizing business disruption. It would be ideal if you also: • Proficient in English, spoken and written B2/C1. • Experienced working in a financial institution. 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 . 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. Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following: In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter ‘GDPR’. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. The administrator of your personal data is: Nordea Bank Abp operating in Poland through its Branch, address: Aleja Edwarda Rydza Śmiglego 20, 93-281 Łodź. Your personal data will be processed for the recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. You have a right to access your personal data, right to rectify and right to delete. Disclosing the personal data in the scope specified by the provisions of Polish Labour Code from 26 June 1974 and executive acts are mandatory. Providing personal data is necessary to conduct the recruitment processes. The request for the deletion of your personal data means resignation from further participation in recruitment processes and causes the immediate removal of your application. Detailed information concerning processing of your personal data can be found at: https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf We reserve the right to reply only to selected applications.