Competence Lead/Software Engineer - Store Enablement

Company Description
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 retail 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.


Job Description
Store Enablement Area plays a key role in enabling the future store experience. The area is set on a mission to provide a unified and streamlined in-store experience worldwide. We want to provide the best customer experience, a simplified interface between Business Tech and our stores. The area creates a stable platform and capabilities to build store specific applications running on modernized devices. All based on holistic store staff and customer vision and journey.
The role includes dual responsibility as you will work as a Software Engineer and Competence Lead. You will have staff responsibility for Software and Technical Engineers and be responsible for their development. As a software Engineer we believe that you are a team player who is driven by tech and the urge to create a business impact with the capabilities of software and tech.
Responsibilities
As a Competence Lead your managing responsibilities will include:
· Coaching and mentoring to help your employees become the best they can be
· Collaborating with Product Owners on development and workforce planning
· Participating in recruiting new employees
· Working with performance management and salary review for your employees
· Being compliant with laws and policies


As a Software Engineer in Store Enablement, you will embark on a journey that will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail, and learn. You will be an important player in this expedition, and so we believe you are communicative, flexible and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized. Some of your responsibilities as Software Engineer will include:
· Developing code on Java, .NET to enable solutions in a cloud-based environment
· Close collaboration with team members to create a customer-oriented focus on the development of software and architectural designs
· Collaborating and agreeing on deliveries with partners and stakeholders
· Designing, developing and supporting solutions with users and customers in focus
· Contributing to the move needed to make our technical platforms enabled for future solutions


Qualifications
As a Competence Lead, you have a solid technical background, great leadership skills, believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You like working with a focus on value creation, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability.
We are looking for you who have:
· Experience with microservices architectures, REST APIs development
· Managed internal and external stakeholders
· Been using agile methodologies and tools, familiar with agile ways of working
· Experience in retail, software, devices, and applications
· Experience with container-based technologies and infrastructural landscape with cloud engineering (MS/GCP)


An interest and understanding in IoT (Internet of Things), Android Hardware, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation.
You will work in an environment where experience from working with the following will be beneficial:
· Event-driven architecture and messaging service bus technologies
· Cloud platforms and Docker
· CI/CD pipelines
· Test automation tools and processes
· Kafka, Azure and Google Cloud Platform


Additional Information
This is a fulltime position based in Stockholm.
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
Does this sound interesting?
Please apply in English, we are continuously screening, and interviewing candidates so send in your application as soon as possible, and no later than 19th August. If you have any questions about the role, please contact the recruiter at devika.langar@hm.com
We kindly ask you however to not send applications to this email address. Due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our career page.
We are looking forward to your application!