About the job 

In Inter IKEA Systems, as the IKEA franchisor we aim to empower local IKEA co-workers and entities to create digital solutions through open APIs and reusable digital components and enabling them to interact and create value to customers and co-workers.  

We want to unlock the power of the IKEA community by establishing a value-driven, open, integrated digital business ecosystem where each entity in the IKEA value chain has a significant role to play, using digital technologies to reach and interact with the many people. 

We believe that co-development, code sharing, digital adaptation and collaboration within IKEA goes far beyond digital services and will enable new dynamic connections amongst co-workers and partners.  

In this job you will be responsible for the management and development of a number of platforms and capabilities supporting and enabling our integrated digital business ecosystem through open APIs, inner/open sourcing, co-development and community collaboration within our digital landscape. Your daily tasks vary from operational maintenance to developing improvements, where you design and implement new concepts and technologies together with partners and stakeholders.  

These are a few of your responsibilities as Platform Engineer – Digital Enablement: 

• Enable Dev/Ops culture and take ownership of technical tooling for observability, testing, deployment and configuration and collaboration including their life-cycle management. 
• Ensure secure ways of working when providing Continuous Delivery as a Service (CDaaS) to the different business development areas within IKEA and the franchisees by creating a well-integrated, well-documented stack of cloud native services and relevant tooling using the mantra: “prepare and design once, use often”. 
• Help autonomous self-serving teams consume our IKEA developer portal and CDaaS services uniformly, helping developers make the most of the resources, features and possibilities while minimizing variation across teams and ensuring that the business product team to only focus to delivering “business logic” value through their connected streams. 
• Support in the design and lead the implementation of an architecture vision of an IKEA wide developer portal 
• You will work closely together with enterprise architecture and serve as partner to the business development areas across the organization and IKEA franchisees by sharing your expertise regarding open APIs, re-usable digital component, inner-sourcing and portals  
• Ensuring that the published APIs and re-usable digital components published into the portal are vetted and well documented so they can be immediately ready to be used securely and consistently across the IKEA organization and external partners.  
• Be an ambassador of ‘API first innovation’, digital component reuse philosophy to product teams across the IKEA value chain and partners that interact with platform and digital components published on it in order to stimulate autonomy and innovation speed. 
• Continuously looking for and adapting new fit for purpose technologies supporting IKEA developer community eco system 
• Serve as partner to the business development areas in long-range planning about new or projected areas of technological research and advancements.  

About you 

You are an ambitious DevOps Platform Engineer who can maintain a holistic view in a dynamic environment. You are able to switch easily between the operational activities and new developments. If you have experience with DevOps/PlatOps, and are passionate about concepts like Open APIs, inner/open sourcing, co-development and community collaboration then this could be the right fit! And if you recognize yourself reading the following bullet points, we would love to hear from you:  

• Knowledge and experience from developing and managing CI/CD pipelines. 
• Understanding of what it takes to deliver services and tools to a community of product engineers across our landscape. 
• Have an engineering mind-set and ability to talk both very technical language as well as on tactical and strategic levels. 
• Solid working experience in cloud hybrid environments with various exposure to SaaS, IaaS and PaaS deployment models and services, preferably with azure cloud platform and services. 
• You pack experience and technical insight in multiple fields and disciplines. 
• Curious and always willing to move the next technology, tools and frameworks. 
• A good security mind-set with understanding on how to build a sensible and safe cloud native environments and platforms. 
• Use pragmatic and entrepreneurial mind-set to adapt and adopt to the requests and requirements from the users 
• Be joyful and take pride in what you create; we're a talented and diverse crew, lucky enough to be building something people really love. 
• It’s a plus if you bring some hands-on programming and development experience in languages such as Java, Javascript, Kotlin or Python. 

About us 

Inter IKEA Systems (Core Business Franchise) owns the IKEA Concept and is the worldwide IKEA franchisor. We are specifically responsible for the IKEA strategic framework, ensuring the IKEA Concept is updated, relevant, implemented and followed-up – together with all IKEA trademark users. 

How do we do this? By enabling people across the IKEA value chain, and creating unique content to develop the IKEA business. Here are some examples of our different assignments.   

• We develop solutions that will ensure a unique and successful meeting with IKEA customers.  
• We lead the work around when and how IKEA expands in the world, enabling one common way of working with high impact at a low cost. 
• We create the preconditions to strengthen the IKEA Culture and develop the right competence to meet customer and business needs.  

An important part of our success is our unique culture and open working environment. Together, we create a workplace where everyone feels free to be themselves – to experiment, try new ways, and dare to ask, “What if…?” We believe in everyday personal growth and offer the opportunity to develop your career globally.  

You will be part of a flexible, values-driven and open team and get the opportunity to work with a fantastic brand!  

Read more about us at: franchisor.IKEA.com 

A few more details for you 

The position is full time (40 hours) and is based in Delft, The Netherlands. You will report to the IT Identity & Data manager. 

Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by 29 November 2020. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you want to work at IKEA Core Business Franchise and why you would be a good fit for this role. 

If you have any questions regarding the position please contact Frans van der Meulen, [email protected]. For questions around the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Frida Eriksson, [email protected]. 

We are looking forward to receiving your application!