Examples of specific tasks that IT and Digitalisation perform:
- IT support for critical payment infrastructure, trade and portfolio management systems, and business-critical data and reporting solutions.
- Continuous development of user-centric digital tools to support a well-run workplace, including strategic vision and working with new technologies.
- Supplier and delivery management for day-to-day IT operations, management and further development.
- Utilising and developing new forms of data. Data engineering and data science play a major role here, including supporting more advanced tools such as machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence.
- Strategic insight and visibility into the overall IT architecture, including consistent focus on consolidating our IT services onto fewer systems and clean-up to prevent technical debt.
- Analyses of IT security and cybersecurity of platforms in collaboration with ESCB and our IT suppliers.
- Facilitating compliance with external and internal requirements.
- Project work, including work on connecting to pan-European infrastructure.
Head of Department Kenneth Schøler Pedersen answers 3 questions about working in IT and Digitalisation:
How do you contribute to Danmarks Nationalbank's work to ensure a robust economy?
IT and Digitalisation is responsible for ensuring stable and secure operation of our IT systems. We do so in close co-operation with internal and external partners and suppliers. Our systems include critical payment infrastructure systems, systems that support the management of the foreign exchange reserve and government debt, along with systems used for data processing as the basis for analyses performed by Danmarks Nationalbank – all of which contribute to the bank's work to ensure a robust economy.
What makes your field particularly exciting?
Danmarks Nationalbank's responsibilities and working methods have changed over the years and continue to evolve. The tasks and skills of IT and Digitalisation are wide-ranging. We work with a number of internal and external partners that makes it an exciting place to work. There are many agendas to take into consideration when you're responsible for critical tasks, cyber risk management, data science, project work and a well-functioning IT workplace.
What are the opportunities and challenges in your field?
IT and Digitalisation has to guarantee stable operations and be at the forefront of ensuring coherence between business and technology. That requires the department to understand the whole of Danmarks Nationalbank's business, maintaining a broad outlook and bringing new trends and perspectives into play.