Since SEB was founded in 1856, our focus on customers and long-term relationships has been at the heart of our success. We aim to drive positive change by providing capital to help everyone reach their goals and accelerate progress towards a sustainable tomorrow. As a leading financial services group in northern Europe, we'll help you grow and empower you to take on more responsibility to create a real difference. Welcome to SEB.
We are looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our Credit Risk team and contribute to optimizing data pipelines, enhancing analytical capabilities, and ensuring data integrity across critical credit risk models.
About the role
As a Data Engineer within our Credit Risk team, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure that supports our credit risk modeling efforts. You will work closely with Quantitative modelers, model experts, and other stakeholders to ensure the availability, accuracy, and reliability of data used in our credit risk models.
Data Engineer role also involves:
• Data Pipeline Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, efficient data pipelines to support credit risk modelling, analysis and reporting.
• Collaboration with Quantitative modelers and product experts: Work closely to ensure the data infrastructure supports the development of predictive credit risk models.
• Data Quality & Governance: Collaboration with Data stewards to ensure high-quality, accurate, and consistent data for credit risk modeling and reporting.
• Data Integration & Management: Integrate data from various internal and external sources into a unified data ecosystem.
• Automation & Optimization: Automate and optimize data processes to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of reporting and risk assessments.
To thrive in this role, we believe you have:
• Proven experience in a Data Engineer or in a similar role, preferably within the financial sector.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient in SQL, Python, and data modelling techniques and working with large datasets.
• Data Warehousing: Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and best practices for data integration and storage.
• Data Governance: Strong understanding of data quality, security, and governance best practices.
• Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex problems and attention to detail.
• Communication: Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams, both technical and non-technical.
• Risk Management Understanding: Familiarity with credit risk, Basel III, and other financial risk frameworks is a plus.
Preferred qualifications:
• Degree: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Experience in Credit Risk: Experience with risk models, including credit scoring, financial regulations, and portfolio analysis, is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with complex datasets.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
What we offer:
We provide a wide range of experiences and benefits to our employees, and while each person’s career journey is unique, the key components that form the foundation of what we offer include:
• Challenging and meaningful work in an ambitious, highly professional, and truly awesome cross border team.
• Access to SEB staff banking with exclusive benefits, health insurance and other employee benefits.
• Extensive training, many learning opportunities.
Do you want to be part of SEB?
It is our fundamental belief that inclusion and diversity is crucial for our future success. We strive to have an inclusive, value-driven culture where employees feel valued, respected and involved irrespective of who they are, what they believe or where they come from.
Since we select candidates continuously, feel free to send in your application today, but no later than 30 of September 2025. If you have questions about the position, please contact Indra Wilson at indra.wilson@seb.se or Talent Acquisition Partner, Olga Wohlfahrt at olga.wohlfahrt@seb.se
SEB Sweden has a redeployment responsibility, why this position might be covered by internal redeployment.
Please be aware that our final candidates undergo background checks, a process that includes for example identity control, verification of qualifications, credit checks, company engagements and criminal records checks. In some cases, we also apply random drug checks.
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