Enterprise Architect - Business Support, Digital Technology, Group Digital

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Software Architecture

In short

Vi söker en erfaren Enterprise Architect till IKEA i Malmö, Sverige, med fokus på Business Support inom Digital Technology och Group Digital. Rollen innebär att leda och utveckla den strategiska arkitekturen för domänen, hantera komplexa tekniklandskap och samarbeta med seniora intressenter för att driva digital transformation och nya affärsmodeller. Erfarenhet av IT, datavetenskap, och gärna retail, samt en produktcentrerad och strategisk inriktning är meriterande.

Responsibilities

Define the strategic architecture, legacy coexistence, and capability implementation to ensure end-to-end flows and avoid duplicate costs.
Lead and develop the strategic architecture perspective on roadmap and prioritizations of domain work and its consequences to reach company strategic outcomes.
Drive and develop Enterprise Architecture practices and apply architecture guardrails through product and engineering teams to empower them at scale.
Drive, lead, and resolve significant cross-team problems in the IKEA value chain.
Resolve architecture topics in significant landscape changes affecting the sub-domain.
Lead, inspire, develop, and manage co-workers to secure a high-performing team and promote growth.
Partner with Retail, Group, and Digital leaders (Product, Engineering, Data, Digital Experience) to drive transformative change towards strategic outcomes.
Develop the technology landscape across IKEA and set the course with strategic direction, principles, and standards.
Manage the Business Support domain, covering Procurement, Finance, Tax, Real Estate, Strategy & Business Planning, Safeguarding, and People, including a team of Technology Architects.

Requirements

Proven advanced experience in information technology, computer science, or equivalent.
Experience in leading business transformative change, preferably in a retail environment with an omni-channel context.
Minimum of 5 years of experience from product and engineering organizations in a leading position.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in building internet-facing distributed systems.
Proven Enterprise Architecture responsibility across larger company areas with global stretch.
Experience working with senior leadership.
Strategic and holistic mindset, able to drive change.
Experience in the SAP platform and integrated ecosystem.

Desired Qualifications

Product-centric mindset.
Open to change and energized working both independently and interdependently.
Share and live the IKEA culture and values.
Able to drive and influence common purpose with senior stakeholders up to board level.
Work outcome-led and drive architecture change for a domain setting its strategic direction, managing trade-offs with a common purpose.
Extensive knowledge in developing architectures for massive internet scale.
Ability to solve deep technical problems and with extensive digital transformation experience, drive the needed architecture shift to meet digital opportunities and enable new business models.
Deep knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, omnichannel, and retailing from both a business and technology perspective.
Ability to lead and motivate the team and change across the organization.
Vast experience in leading product engineering and architecture teams.
Vast experience in Procurement, Tax, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Business Planning, Safeguarding and People solutions.
Deep knowledge and experience in retail landscape design and various technologies for a digitalized business, integrating with retail ecosystems and an operational backbone.
Good collaborator with strong leadership skills – able to actively lead and drive architecture work and collaborate with diverse senior stakeholders.
Attention to detail and actively acquire new knowledge, skills and champion new methods to improve performance in deliveries.
Knowledge across a range of different technology stacks, ideally applied within a retail sector.
Ability to change direction based on new ideas, approaches, and strategies.
Experience in a digital retailing environment in omni-channel context is preferred.

Benefits

IKEA is providing international relocation support if needed.
Commitment to equality, inclusion, and humanism in recruitment.
Actively working for IKEA to be a place where people of all genders, ethnicities, races, nationalities, abilities, and sexual orientations feel welcome and able to be themselves.

Skills

SAPEnterprise Architecture

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About IKEA

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Our value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with our customers. The IKEA retail business…

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