Software Engineering Chapter

Are you ready to join us and lead building the data driven financing journey in Danske Bank? We now offer the opportunity to play an important role in shaping how the vendor credit data contribute to the next generation of intelligent credit process.

Welcome to our Tribe!

In Financing Businesses tribe, we're not just processing credit applications – we're enabling dreams. Our mission? To provide trusted, frictionless credit decisions that help our customers achieve their ambitions. As part of our "Forward '28" strategy, we're digitalising credit processes to deliver faster results for customers while empowering our advisers to focus on what truly matters: being trusted financial partners.

You'll join our External Credit Data squad, which is a critical domain supporting Danske Bank's vision for credit processing with reliable data and compliance. We are in the process of building the modernised future platform – utilising modern technologies to manage external credit data from different vendors and provide seamless user-friendly services to access the data for all kind of business purposes across the whole bank. 

Lead with purpose and drive the future proof development

As a people leader, you will:

• Lead and develop a chapter of software engineers, supporting their professional growth and career aspirations
• Build the high-performance teams with close collaboration with product owners and architects, as well as your other chapter lead peers
• Drive engineering excellence through technical mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing, and promote modern practices including automation, AI-assisted development, continuous delivery and product development lifecycle
• Attract, develop, and retain talented engineers in collaboration with Tribe and Engineering leadership
• Bridge the solution modernization and contribute to target architecture and strategic technology decisions and help shape the future engineering direction of the tribe

As a squad member in day-to-day work, you will:

• Collaborate closely with other both product owners, business analysts, architects and other software engineers across different locations sites:
• Work mainly with Java, Spring framework stack and drive the modernization from existing legacy mainframe solutions
• Analyze, develop, review, test, deploy, maintain and support our solutions (including quality, security, infrastructure, scalability) with a full product lifecycle mindset

Are you the one for the challenge?

• Strong software engineering background with several years of experience in modern cloud application development
• Solid understanding of design principles and architectural patterns, and essential Java ecosystem knowledge (common frameworks/libraries, build tools and practices)
• Familiar with product lifecycle and care about quality, maintainability, automation, and long-term sustainability
• Ability to navigate change and drive continuous improvement, curious to understand the root problem with tech agnostic mindset and embrace solutions of both new tech and legacy tech
• Experience with agile development methodologies and cross-functional collaboration, as well as cross location/culture teams
• Comfortable taking technical ownership and guiding others in technical decisions with comprehensive arguments and trade-offs
• A servant leadership mindset - passionate about developing people, empowering talents and cultivating performing organisations
• Natural interest in technology, open to knowing our existing legacy solutions, challenging and fixing areas, and gathering business and domain understanding
• Good English and communications skills for conveying smooth and clear understandable messages for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Previous people leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, or managing engineers is a plus.

Key opportunities and benefits

Monthly salary ranges from 4960 EUR to 7440 EUR gross (based on your competencies relevant for the job).

Additionally, each Danske Bank employee receives employee benefits package which includes:

• Growth opportunities: professional & supportive team, e-learnings, numerous development programs; (incl. professional certificates); 100+ professions for internal mobility opportunities.
• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; additional health insurance; mental well-being practices; partial psychologist counselling compensation; silence and sleep zones at the office; game rooms.
• Hybrid working conditions: Work from home up to two days a week; home office budget (after the probation period); modern Danske Campus workplace developed with anthropologist for the best employee experience.
• Additional days of leave: for rest, health, volunteering, exams in higher education institutions, and other important activities. Moreover, for seniority with Danske Bank.
• Monetary compensation package: accidents & critical diseases insurance; financial support in case of unfortunate events, travel insurance; IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contribution.

See all the benefits HERE.

Your job function (position) in the job contract will be Software Engineering.

“We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views.”

If you are interested in technology, leadership and building capabilities that make a difference, we would love to hear from you. Feel free to contact Weiwei Jiang via LinkedIn or by email wj@danskebankj.dk, in case of any questions! 

We are looking forward to receiving your application.