Cloud Solution Architect in H&M Group

Company Description
The H&M group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data and technology. We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world.
Job Description
We love design, and we love technology! Our diversity makes us strong and creates an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone’s individuality is highly valued.
The H&M Cloud and Datacenter area is growing. As we accelerate and soon reach 100% in the cloud, we need to strengthen our Cloud enablement tribe further. We’re looking for one more Cloud Solution Architect to support the organization building secure and effective cloud solutions using DevOps practices.
Our Cloud area has been named best in class as a ‘Center for Enablement for Cloud’ by Microsoft. We have been presenting our cloud transformation journey and success stories on events like Microsoft Ignite, DevOps Enterprise Summit and Tech Days Sweden. According to several external reviews we are far ahead of most enterprises in cloud maturity. Given that and our scale, we frequently push the agendas of GCP and Azure. We interact with their engineers and product teams to support our needs.
H&M has had Cloud on top of the agenda for some years and we have come far, but we are accelerating it even more with several exciting initiatives. With more platforms, the number of applications and 3rd party services ever growing we need to be excelling to handle the complexity and stay on top our deliveries. Application delivery is a distributed responsibility handled by the respective 300+ product teams. We still need to continue assisting applications in the cloud, consume efficient and secure solutions.
What you will do:
Find new ways to help others utilize to our multi-cloud platforms
Continuously improve the Cloud architecture roadmap based on enterprise architecture principals
Review new technologies, tools and services to see what should be implemented in our environment
Work with Microsoft and Google engineers on improvements of their products and keep track of new awesome technologies in their pipelines
Plan and discuss with developers and operations staff taking ideas and remediations into production

Provide cloud expertise related to multi-cloud platforms
Be part of our front facing team, performing advisory services, collaboratively creating, and reviewing architectural designs together with colleagues and our partners.
Driving dialogues and act as subject matter expert for our public cloud platforms
Review existing solutions and collaboratively design sustainable solutions for our cloud platforms
Be an advocate for and promote for a great learning culture and development of new skills
Work in an agile environment and develop solutions together without product teams and partners
Spearhead initiatives on new technology and drive our internal communities forward.

Qualifications

Your mindset & skills:
You have a deep interest in cloud architecture and expertise of the domain with 8+ of experience
You have 3+ year of experience as a cloud architect
You have experience within GCP or/and Azure
You have experience working in a highly agile environment, we constantly need to reevaluate how we implement cloud to stay relevant and safe.
You are self-driven and like complex challenges
You have a passion for helping and educating others, you strive to make cloud easy to achieve for everyone
You enjoy moving between hands-on work on e.g. high level designs and collaboratively defining the perfect monitoring strategy.

Additional Information
What we can offer


At H&M we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. Here you can be your true self and develop. You’ll be part of an important product at H&M Group with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference. With the right mindset and ambition, you’ll find plenty of room to grow.
If this sounds exciting to you, come join the journey and build the future with us!


This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with your CV and a short motivation as soon as possible, no later than 11th of April. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner, Marta Wieczorek