About us

IKEA Supply AG (ISAG) is the main wholesale company within the Inter IKEA group – Core Business Range & Supply. We are the owner of the goods in the distribution centers worldwide and are the buyer of goods delivered from suppliers globally and the main seller of goods to IKEA retail companies.

IKEA is on an exciting growth journey becoming more accessible to the many people. We are investing heavily to develop and digitalize IKEA into the future. IKEA Business Solutions will support this journey by delivering expertise in business development while safeguarding running business. This way we empower our co-workers, customers and suppliers with the right solutions to optimise the customer experience and contribute to a growing IKEA.

Solution Area Wholesale Finance ensures that our global financial processes within the wholesale business are supported by information technology today and in the future.

We are now looking to grow our Solution Area Wholesale Finance even more!
 

About the job

Your mission will be to shape ideas in close collaboration with relevant internal and external stakeholders, in order to concrete robust and appropriate solution architectures (high level design) and transition roadmaps (for implementation) that achieve the business outcome for a fast growing business (for running business and initiatives)

This means that you will – for one or more solutions:

• Be responsible for detailing IT functional and non-functional requirements for given business requirements in the business solution delivery process and project management (support with clarifying business requirements if needed)
• Secure that IT solutions fulfil the agreed functional and non-functional business requirements 
• Secure, develop and review high-level design. Approve low-level design of the implementation of a business transformation with an IT component in order to support running business, provide guidance towards service improvements and service transition
• Govern that the design of the solutions conforms to the solution architecture and is efficient, meet business requirements and based on a holistic architecture
• In a close dialog with stakeholders create and shape business and IT-related ideas into current state, future state and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of business solutions
• In close collaboration with IT architects lead solution activities within the domain, establish solution/infrastructure design on different levels in accordance to the domain architecture and provide technology advice. 
   

Is this the challenge for you?
We offer you a challenging, exciting and fun role where you will be an active and important part in driving the future of Solution Architecture within Solution Area Wholesale Finance.

• We believe you have solid experience of IT development processes and of solution architecture concepts.
• We believe you are experienced in using models, methods and tools within analysis and design and have good knowledge of general IT frames e.g. standards, infrastructure and platforms, frameworks, development concepts and processes.
• You have excellent analytical skills. 
• You are able to see the big picture as well as the details and to structure information and derive conclusions and consequences out of them.
• You are able to interact with strong stakeholders – understand them and their needs as well as making them understand you.
• You act as role model for IKEA values and you have strong communication skills and the ability to build trustful relationships.
• You are able to work in an environment where the pre-conditions may change from one day to another and where we need to deliver these changes with short notice in order not to risk breaking laws and agreements.

We also believe you have

• University degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience in working with global and/or virtual teams
• Technologies: Oracle/DB, application server, PL/SQL, Java/.Net, EBS (Enterprise Bus Service)
• Industry certification in architecture would be a plus but not a must
• NOTE: Due to long permit process we prefer candidates with valid Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship

Does this sound like your next challenge?

We look forward to receiving your application in English by 2 February 2020. 
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, meaning application process may close earlier. 

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting Manager Karin Bergstrand at +4179 931 9768. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Louise Orstadius, People & Culture Leader on +4179 667 9654.

We look forward to receiving your application!