Job ID: 257097
Date posted: 06/09/2024
What you need to know

At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Working at IKEA is a unique opportunity to contribute to our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people.

You are invited to join an exciting area of Business Strategy & Planning. Here we help shape IKEA's future by providing meaningful insights to business stakeholders in various organizations, enabling them to take fact-based, data-driven decisions and support IKEA’s journey to become a true omnichannel retailer. We are looking for you to lead the Engineering discipline in our global and cross-functional team.

Why we will love you

Through your previous experience you know how to build and grow Agile Engineering teams, as well as develop an engineering culture allowing continuous learning through mistakes and innovation. You should bring solid experience with Engineering and Cloud Native development best practices, Google Cloud Platform, SRE/Dev Ops, Cloud Architecture and business requirements gathering experience. You care about Security, Automation, Scalability, Resilience, and Data Quality and how all of these impact the product life cycle.
You should also have an interest in keeping up with the latest advancements in Cloud technology, Dev Ops and Agile ways of working.

We expect you to have following knowledge / experience:

• Minimum 5 years of global team leadership and 1:1 coaching of Engineers in high-performing, multi-disciplined and Agile teams.
• Education in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Engineering equivalent.
• Experience setting and leading the strategic direction for an Engineering function.
• Strong cross-organizational stakeholder management experience.

• Extensive knowledge of the full lifecycle development and operational aspects of Web Applications and Data Products on Google Cloud Platform. • Demonstrated experience managing Cloud Infrastructure and Application Security aspects of significant business products and services.

• Familiarity with Python, SQL and No SQL DBs.
• Good knowledge of the IKEA Concept, brand identity and IKEA Culture & values.

About this work area

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.

Your Responsibilities:

• Recruit, lead and develop a global and multi-cultural team of Software & Systems Engineers to implement, evolve, support, and own software and system components to Group Digital quality standards following Dev Ops principles.
• Be accountable for technical delivery of products within the Strategy & Business Planning area scope. Provide technical domain knowledge, architectural leadership and coach the teams in high class standards for software engineering and operations. Help the team drive a cloud-first agenda, utilize the proper tools, enable automation for the specified business outcomes.
• Be the guardian of the Non-Functional Requirements that our cross-functional teams are delivering. This includes among other NFRs; adherence to our Architectural Strategy, Engineering Baseline, Quality and Security standards.
• Work closely with the assigned Product Owners and all groups within the Digital Technology organization to support the overarching Product Owner’s roadmap. Drive technology roadmap and technology strategy for the Strategy & Business Planning sub-domain.
• Secure that product teams are resourced with the right level and standard of Engineers, manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget.

Questions and support? Let's connect!

This is global role based in Sweden and you will report to the Product Engineering Manager (Group Digital). For more information about the role, reach out to Chris Hamil (chris.hamil@ingka.com).
We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to your application!

PLEASE NOTE
Due to data privacy (GDPR) we can’t review any applications coming to us in other ways than through our recruitment program.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.
From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”