Data Engineer

Company Description
IKEA is about making things better. All the way from the factory floors to the homes of the many people. We have a passion for renewing and improving things. This is part of our DNA. But how do we know what’s better or what to improve? How are we able to make the crucial decisions? By unleashing the full potential of data about and around our business. It is about enabling quicker and better decision-making with facts as a base - going from a reactive way of working to a more proactive approach.
The assignment of Business Steering is to secure a balanced view of the total IKEA business performance. This is achieved by developing and maintaining common analytical methods, frameworks, processes, ways of working, standard solutions and tools. Business Steering should act as a strong point of reference as well as a competence center, for all of Range & Supply. It should communicate business performance in a clear and inspiring way throughout the value chain. In the digital branches of Business Steering – the departments of Performance & Follow Up and Advanced Analytics - we provide the data needed to take on these assignments. More specifically the data is used to provide insights in the form of Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI). In fact, in order to be useful for this purpose, data needs to be provided in a highly curated form, putting heavy requirements on how the data is engineered before that it can be consumed. This engineering comprises a vast set of tasks, ranging from integration, extraction and pipelining through transformation and modelling to refinement and presentation of the data.
Business Steering is currently in a phase where we want to strengthen our abilities in and around data engineering. We see that this role is needed across our digital branches; sometimes on assignments flavoured classical ETL development, and sometimes on tasks more associated with advanced analytics. We are therefore now looking for several new co-workers taking on the role of Data Engineer.
Job Description
Welcome to the opportunity of a lifetime – we have openings in our digital teams for several Data Engineers. Take part in enhancing our BI and Advanced Analytics capabilities. You will work in a highly collaborative team to devise solutions to real business problems, bringing your skills and ideas into every discussion.


As a Data Engineer in the digital branches of Business Steering you will:
Be responsible for all aspects of collecting, integrating, and processing of data, including associated data modelling.
Transform data into analysable format, securing the data is delivering the defined benefits to the business
Analyse, design, develop, test, and sustain infrastructures for data sourcing, maintenance, generation and sharing
Drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality and implement signals for data drifting and model decay
Provide APIs to enable easy and standardized sharing and access of data
Provide SME expertise and operational know-how to support projects and solutions with conversion of data related business requirements into data architectures and technical solutions
Responsible for solution compliance with rules and standards (e.g. information security), legal and regulatory requirements as well as adherence to relevant delivery process standards
Document and make the operational know-how of the data infrastructure and engineering solutions available for the IKEA ecosystem and ensure awareness around available data
Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery
Ensure cost conscious and maintainable solutions

Qualifications
We believe that our new colleagues have excellent knowledge of SQL and database scripting languages in general as well as general-purpose data handling languages. Moreover, the persons should have Basic knowledge of industry-standard general-purpose software development languages as well as excellent knowledge about on-premise/cloud/hybrid infrastructure. It is likely that the persons have previously worked as ETL developer/Solution Architect/Data engineer with IKEA.


Of course 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.
Additional information
If you have questions regarding the position, please contact Solution Area Manager, Pål Nilsson, +46 723 5287 or People & Culture Recruiter Jakob Bergström +46 70-147 48 90. 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. Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by December 9th 2020.