Director- Area Lead Engineer -Data Platform

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 organization delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. We are accelerating digitalization 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 the Area Lead Engineer for Data Platform Engineering, you will play a vital role for us in our mission to make H&M Group a truly data and insight driven company.​You will be responsible for engineering teams working with development of master data within and outside SAP. The teams work in an agile and cross-functional setup. You need to be passionate about people in all aspects, from recruiting, developing, coaching, and shaping the team. You need to drive a cultural shift from being reactive and accepting requirements towards actively engaging in the team mission. You do this in close collaboration with the teams Product Owner and Scrum Master, and together you are the trio that supports the teams becoming self-managing and high performing with people as the center of your joint mission.​


Responsibilities:
Be an available and approachable manager for team members by inspiring and coaching them 1-1 on their personal development journey in alignment with the needs of the team and H&M.​
Energize people and teams by being a catalyst leader​
Identify future competence gaps ​
Responsible to 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​
To establish, deliver, and refine a platform engineering roadmap to ensure that all platforms and products remain current, deliver value to product engineering teams, and supports the needs of internal stakeholders in terms of scalability, resilience, security, capacity, and operational maintenance.​
Define a technology roadmap that includes deliverables focused on the continued improvement of the supported solutions, empowering a culture through the use of automated platform capabilities underpinning customer-focused product engineering and development.​
In collaboration with Product Engineering, and colleagues in Service Management and Operations, work to reduce or eliminate manual or repetitive tasks, improving the end-to-end health and performance of the underlying platforms.​



Qualifications
Experience:
Proven advanced training in information technology, computer science or equivalent​
have extensive experience in leading and coaching data engineers at customer-focused companies​
have a good understanding of master data management and you are familiar with SAP MM and SAP SD or similar. A plus if you are familiar with S4 HANA. Thrive when developing outstanding colleagues who create amazing products​
Demonstrates a combination of a highly technical engineering leader and effective relationship skills​
Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities​
Deep understanding of the cost drivers in systems delivery and operations and the commercial consequences of the technical decisions made. Ability to manage and prioritize dozens of requirements, deadlines, & projects​



Additional Information
Functional Knowledge:
Tech service management & delivery/Technology Platform Management​
SAP + S/4 Hana in Retail/Fashion​
Hybris / Online Platforms​
Transformation management​
DevOps and agile methodology​
Enterprise Architecture​
Strong communication skills in English (spoken and written)

Leadership Behaviors:
As a role model for our values and putting them into action, you are expected to demonstrate excellent cognitive, social and emotional skills and know how to nurture them in others by having the ability to…​
... commit to directional decisions, take ownership of the whole and collaborate across boundaries​
… create trust and dare to lead​
... communicate in a timely and clear way​
... strive for speed, reduce complexity and focus on the outcome​

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 75-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 with flexible placement, preferably in Stockholm. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than the 4th March. We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact Talent Acquisition Poonam Pandey (Poonam.pandey@hm.com)