Data Engineer - Mamö

Who you are
At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people.
As a Data Engineer, you like solving hard problems with code and working on state-of-the-art technologies. You are a hands-on Data Engineer who can build great data products upon one of the world’s possibly largest and most extensive data sets for Web (IKEA online store) and IKEA App.
You also recognize yourself in some of the following:
• You’re good at designing, developing, and deploying data pipelines using the modern tech stack
• You’ve knowledge of SQL, data modeling, ETL, and nice to have: Python, Go, Rust, or similar
• You like the data mesh paradigm and Data-as-a-Product (DaaP)
• You’re comfortable with data warehousing/data lakehousing with BigQuery or similar
• You’ve experience in cloud platforms e.g. Google Cloud Platform (GCP), cloud-native architecture design, and cloud computing with Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, or similar
• You’re comfortable with orchestration with Cloud Workflows, Cloud Composer or Apache Airflow
• You’ve knowledge of batch and stream processing with e.g. Cloud Dataflow or Apache Beam and real-time data e.g. Cloud Pub/Sub or Apache Kafka. And curious to learn the ones you don’t know yet!
• You’ve heard of infrastructure as code tools like Terraform
• You’ve experience in collaborative software engineering & agile (Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, GitOps)
• You’re familiar with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• You’re excited about IKEA’s values and vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people!
The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day-to-day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more about our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com.
What you'll be doing day to day
Within the Customer Domain of Data & Analytics, you’ll be a part of the Customer Meeting Points area team that focuses on the Online Data and Tracking pillar both for Web (IKEA online store) and IKEA App. In collaborations mostly with Product and Engineering, you will vibe with our Data-as-a-Product:
This means:
• Write demanding SQL queries and ETL as an integral component of data processing pipelines
• Build, operate, and maintain data platforms and systems, mostly cloud-based, that enable distributed data consumption by cross-functional teams
• Produce the design and drive the implementation of appropriate data models, schemas and their processing and transformation pipelines, whileensuring continuously stable running operations
• Build software that is cost-effective and robust with respect to imperfect data streams and architectural conditions, ensuring a resilient technological foundation for analytics
• Apply and utilise modern software development practices and related technologies, including CI/CD
Our team within IKEA
We are proud of our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people. We’re working in different locations worldwide to facilitate our digital growth ambition. The office for this role will be Malmö, Sweden, but we act as one global team and work together on global solutions.
We want you to join our diverse team within Data & Analytics consisting of Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and Data Stewards based across Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain. Our team is filled with people who enjoy good stories and welcome new team members warmly!
We see so many opportunities for what we can accomplish and have the ambition to be a world-class team. At the same time, we believe that our work is not just about solving business problems, but also about learning and having fun together!
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
• Opportunities to have a global impact with your work on our e-commerce performance on Web & App
• Flexible and modern tools: we deploy on GCP and we use lots of open-source tools
• Hardware and Operating System of your choice
• A team of great colleagues to learn with and from (with world-class experience)
• Continuous learning (we aim to spend 20% of our working time on learning)
• Flexible and friendly working environment in a truly value-based company