At IKEA, we aim to make healthy and sustainable choices affordable and accessible for all. To make that happen, we need people with imagination. People who know that everyone has a right to feel at home. People who share our vision of a better everyday life. Together we’ll innovate the future of life at home through data, technology, retail and home furnishing know-how. We need future architects, down-to-earth data scientists, unboxed engineers, cyber guardians, common sense makers and more! Are you one of them?

With the introduction of an enterprise-wide Data & Analytics (D&A) platform, democratizing data throughout Inter IKEA, the business usage of data is recognized to grow rapidly. Consequently, data governance processes and the supporting tools that will help end users in consuming the data – data management tools – are becoming increasingly important.

In the D&A organisation, representing one of the expertise areas in IKEA Shared Data & Technology, we currently have an opening for a Solution Architect (SA) – with the Data Management group located in Malmö. The SA will have a multi-purpose technical specialist assignment focused on the data management tools that are owned, developed, and maintained by the D&A organisation. Currently, these are the Inter IKEA tools for Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Business Glossary, with a scope that is likely to be continuously extended.

In the SA position, you will work in a highly collaborative team to devise solutions to business challenges, adding your skills and ideas into every discussion. You will bring your energy, drive and technical expertise into enablement and support of the data management tools. In this domain, a wide variety of problem statements, often stretching over the virtual boundaries of D&A and Information Management (IM), are addressed. Typical assignments range from tool configuration/installation through architecture and access management to in-depth discussions and recommendations around software development and simple bug-fixing. With these capabilities as

your bread and butter, we would like you act as our tech lead linking between the Digital Product Leaders, the outsourced DevOps teams and the respective software vendors. In summary, we are looking for a real-time problem-solver with the ability to make true operational difference today, with the desire and potential to take on bigger responsibilities tomorrow.

For the data management tools owned by D&A, the Solution Architect will:

• Be the functional expert and specialist
• Take lead in securing the technical roadmap(s)
• Be responsible for architecture, making sure that technical and non-technical components work aligned with the business processes and create a holistic whole
• Maintain solution management processes and perform administrative flows
• Support projects and enhancement requests for the assigned platforms (e.g. development, support flow and communication).
• Validate functionality and design for continuous improvement
• Together with the Digital Product Leader be responsible for the running operations
• Safeguard compliance and consistency related to relevant digital frameworks, principles, guidelines, policies, and standards
• Make sure that the overall technology and architecture roadmap are being considered in different decisions/discussions
• Secure that the platform capacity is set up and used in an optimised way, with the purpose to be efficient by re-using components where possible
• Understand how the tools/platform interacts or integrates with other platforms and be able to provide technical solutions in relation to other platforms
• Understand and have the ability to configure based on recommendations from the tool suppliers, e.g. Manta, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Microsoft etc.
• Work closely together with the different IKEA Core Businesses, IT vendors and partners, peers, colleagues, etc.

We believe that our new colleague has technical experience from working with data management tools. Any previous assignments in and around information management and architecture are considered beneficial. You should have good knowledge in cloud technologies as well as in D&A.

You understand how to build or configure digital products which improve user experience and by doing so, how these will support business processes.

Your work is characterized by your drive and energy and by getting things done. The exposure to stakeholders and vendors will require a confident personality with people skills. Experience in working in agile and product-oriented setups and organisations is required. Moreover, we expect the PE to have the ability to communicate in a clear and inspirational way, making complex and digital topics easily understandable.

You share our values, not only by thought but also clearly mirrored in how you carry them out in your everyday life. To learn about what it means, please explore more here; https://en-global-jobs.about.ikea.com/lifeatikea.

This is a fulltime role (40 hours per week) based in Malmö, Sweden and sits Inter IKEA Technology Services AB.

We want to understand the why! Tell us, as part of your application, why you think you would be a good fit for this role (in English). Applications without a motivation letter will not be taken into consideration.