Inter IKEA Group have started the digital transformation. This is a journey which require that a new technology foundation is established for Core Business Franchise and Core Business Range & Supply. We have started the work to set up the technical services needed to support an IT landscape that will be developed and operated in a hybrid cloud model. The technical services we deliver will enable the IT landscape to transform and take leverage on cloud computing services. We will contribute to IKEA direction by making it possible for any service 'XaaS' to be translated into an affordable, accessible and sustainable product.

These services will enable us to create a better IKEA. We are looking for the people that take an individual responsibility to make sure that we deliver together as a team. Great colleagues, believing in a great IKEA vision with curiosity, drive and technical competence with a desire to make a difference, please come and join us. We take a leading approach; transforming complexity for the few into simplicity for the many. IKEA culture and values will guide us on the way, today and tomorrow.

As Solution Architect, you bring all your knowledge and experience to design and build observability and monitoring solutions that provide business value to our consumers. You will lead the design and translate the business requirements of modern, scalable, and high-performing technical solutions, drive the implementation in the system development life cycle, providing technical recommendations for our production systems and infrastructure.

• Work closely with high-level design input from our IT Architects.
• Provide expert knowledge within an international IT marketplace with focus on current market and technology trends.
• Provide input to the for producing roadmaps for the Monitoring area.
• Take part in potential problem management activities.
• Support projects and initiatives in defining enterprise monitoring best practices.
• Establish common monitoring services for applications/infrastructure services deployed in public cloud.

To be successful in this role you need to:

• Have solid experience and a strong belief in the IKEA leadership approach.
• Have a heartfelt understanding of the importance of code standards within an enterprise such as IKEA.
• Must be well versed with Cloud native operations and Observability concepts.
• Understanding of IT Observability, metrics, tracing, logs.
• Can translate business requirements into observability and monitoring solution.
• Prior experience with instrumenting mission critical services on a globally distributed level, using cloud providers like AZURE, AWS, GCP and more
• Knowledge of or experience with container orchestrion technologies
• Experience in working with IT Observability software solution and cloud service.
• Be curious, eager to find better ways and committed to remove manual work whenever possible.
• You love to coach, share expertise and empower co-workers from different cultures.

We look forward to receiving your application in English latest May 28th. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Jakob Bergström, +46 70-147 48 90