Area Lead Engineer Cloud & Data Center Engineering

Company Description
H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.


Job Description
As Area Lead Engineer Cloud & Data Center Engineering, you are passionate about creating fast, flexible and scalable cloud infrastructure tools and services. You will lead the development and required transformation of the Cloud & Data Center Area, delivering key enabling services to Business Tech. You will define and implement the strategy and roadmap for the Cloud & Data Center, thereby providing a core high-quality technology service to the H&M Group business. This includes scaling down and phasing out legacy technology over time, as well as re-engineering/transforming as necessary. Ensuring technology innovation and new feature development as necessary to drive business value will be among your key objectives. As Area Lead Engineer Cloud & Data Center, you have great leadership skills, and you believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You focus on value creation, growth and serving customers with ownership and accountability, delivering exceptional results for the customer and business. Some of your responsibilities will include:
Improve speed to market, as well as flexibility and scalability of Business Tech products by building and improving cloud service
Empower and enable Product Teams to deliver on the Cloud strategy by building modern, scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure tools and services to host and deploy their products
Accelerate the transition to Cloud and improve the maturity of Cloud services
Drive multi-cloud strategy
Reduce/de-commission data center footprint
Monitor vendors and market regularly for new software, hardware and best practices in Cloud
Responsible for overall Engineering and technology architecture definition and decisions in Cloud & Data Center, according to Enterprise Architecture guidelines
Manage stakeholders across Business Tech to align on KPIs, development priorities, feature requests etc.
Ensure that the area strategy and roadmap is aligned with Business Tech technology strategy and roadmap
Provide input to QBR on critical technology priorities that will enable continued product development and scaling
Lead, coach and develop members of the area, promoting best practice in technical architecture and continually benchmarking against industry standards



Qualifications
Proven advanced training in information technology, computer science or equivalent
8-12+ years of experience (showing upward trajectory and diverse experience across multiple teams) in engineering, software development or technology architecture, of which 5+ years leadership experience in building and engineering Cloud infrastructure;
5+ years experience in Azure & GCP Platform engineering and Kubernetes in multi-cloud set-ups
5+ years experience in legacy to Cloud transition approaches (such as, rehost, refactor, replace)
5+ years experience in Cloud Platform service automation, design engineering across (Azure and GCP)
Experience in implementing API/Microservices architectures and transforming legacy technology
Deep knowledge in modern architecture principles and distributed systems (e.g. API first, modular application design, microservices, test automation) and interest in the latest technology trends
Demonstrates a combination of a highly-technical engineering leader and effective relationship skills
Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
Ability to understand the complexity of H&M business and the role of foundational technology as an integrated part of the business



Additional Information
Working with tech at H&M Group 
Shaping the future of fashion with people, data, and tech. The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations. At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.

What we offer
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits and a flexible work life, there are a lot of opportunities to experiment and grow in the direction you want. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
H&M Group is a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive environment. We are committed to create an inclusive & diverse workplace with a culture that is dynamic and innovative.
We welcome your application regardless of who you are, where you’re from and what you like.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
We welcome all applicants to strengthen our innovative and diverse culture.
Learn more about our I&D work https://youtu.be/veRbl9Cijts


Additional information
This is a full-time position based in Stockholm. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 10th of April. We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact Talent Acquisition Khrystyna Hranda (khrystyna.hranda@hm.com).