Examples of specific tasks that IT and Digitalisation perform:
- Support for critical payment infrastructure, trade and portfolio management systems, and business-critical data and reporting solutions.
- Strategic vision and work with new technologies, such as the use of artificial intelligence and the importance of quantum technology.
- Strategic insight and visibility into the overall IT architecture, including consistent focus on consolidating Danmarks Nationalbank’s IT services onto fewer systems and clean-up to prevent technical debt.
- Analyses of IT security and cybersecurity of platforms in collaboration with ECB and our IT suppliers.
- Facilitating compliance with external and internal requirements.
- Supplier and delivery management for day-to-day IT operations, management and further development.
- Project work and test management to ensure efficient project execution and quality assurance of IT solutions.
- Further develop and improve digital tools employees use in their day-to-day work to support a digitally well-run workplace.
- Further develop analytical tools for both ongoing tasks and innovative analyses to support the need for new data sources and the need for new and computationally intensive methods.
- Improve employees' digital skills at a time when technology is evolving rapidly – especially in areas such as artificial intelligence – so that the organisation can continue to take advantage of new opportunities in a safe and efficient way.
- Support and ensure that all bank employees and consultnts have the IT access they need at any given point in their work lifecyle. This is ensured through annual access reviews and documented roles in Omada based on organisationel affiliation.
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.