Tribe Lead for Digital Core
As Tribe Lead for Digital Core, you will lead a strategically important part of Danske Bank’s core banking foundation. You will shape direction, drive delivery, and build alignment across business and technology while leading people through significant change.
About Digital Core
Digital Core supports the modernisation of customer and account capabilities while underpinning essential financial services in the Nordics, making it a central part of Danske Bank’s Forward ’28 journey.
The tribe includes around 180 colleagues across Denmark, Lithuania, and India. You will work closely with architects, chapter leads, product leaders, and senior business and technology stakeholders to drive progress through collaboration, clarity, and strong execution.
Location can both be in Aarhus or Copenhagen.
Key Responsibilities- Lead Digital Core with clear direction, strong execution, and an inclusive leadership culture.
- Drive the roadmap in alignment with Forward ’28 while balancing transformation with stability, resilience, and compliance.
- Ensure delivery across squads and clusters while managing priorities, dependencies, risk, and continuity of essential services.
- Build strong partnerships across business and technology and create transparency on progress and performance.
What Will Help You Thrive in the Role
We know strong candidates may not meet every single point below. If this role excites you and your experience is relevant, we encourage you to apply.- Experience leading large-scale technology, transformation, or product organisations in a complex environment.
- Strong strategic and operational leadership skills, with the ability to translate ambition into priorities and execution.
- Experience leading through leaders and navigating senior stakeholder landscapes across business and technology.
- A leadership approach that values collaboration, inclusion, and the development of diverse teams and talent.
- Experience from banking, financial services, or another regulated environment is an advantage, but not a requirement.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to take on a key leadership role in one of Danske Bank’s most important technology areas and help shape the bank’s core modernisation journey.
You will join a leadership team with a strong commitment to simplification, modernisation, and stronger engineering foundations. We value collaboration, different perspectives, and an environment where people can grow and contribute.
At Danske Bank, we believe diverse perspectives improve our teams and decisions. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every requirement. If you need adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Please apply as soon as possible, as we review applications on an ongoing basis. For more information, please contact Casper Lund Thomsen at calu@danskebank.dk.