Engineering Manager, Customer, Group Digital

We are looking for a people centric leader who is excited about building value driven digital products for our customers by leading and inspiring high performing teams.
WHAT DO YOU BECOME A PART OF?
In Explore, we are at the beginning of our journey with 3D and immersive experiences. We have an awesome time ahead of us and to get started we have created two teams. There is now an opportunity to join these two teams as Engineering Manager and by that lead an exciting part of the future IKEA. Team one is building and running the distribution of 3D models within Ingka. This team functions as an enabler for others to create experiences for our 40 global markets. Team two is responsible for a design experience, built together with other teams within Ingka. In this cross-team collaboration, the goal is to deliver a life-like experience of home furnishing using 3D.
Our capability area Explore is a part of a larger organisation Customer Domain. In Explore we are focusing on Content Management, Inspiration & Exploration. We are moving into an omni-channel landscape, connecting with customers, co-workers and systems in our many stores and in our app & web experiences. / Changed place
We work cross functional, and you collaborate with others in the engineering network in achieving our common goals. / Remove
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
You are curious and not afraid of pushing your skills and building a trust by sharing knowledge and mistakes. You see an ever-changing environment as a constant flow of opportunities and learning. Your energy is generated by leading and developing people.
You will be the line manager for a team of engineers with responsibility for the people processes such as recruitment, performance, competence, career development, health and wellbeing of your co-workers./ changed place
Through your previous experience you know how to build and grow agile software development teams as well as an engineering culture allowing continuous learning through mistakes and innovation. Since you will lead by example, you are a passionate coder and have hands-on experience from building and improving products but lately you have shifted your focus to leading, coaching, motivating and developing teams and team members.
You have knowledge in following areas:
• Extensive knowledge of software engineering practices such as BDD, TDD, test automation, DevOps, code versioning, with knowledge and experience of using industry standard toolsets
• Knowledge of design and architecture concepts (i.e. microservices), especially within the cloud space at scale, and ability to apply knowledge within the development cycle
• Understand the needs of the service management and operations phase, including L2/L3 support, incident and problem management
• Experience or interest in 3D and immersive technologies
WHAT IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE?
To be a part of a great culture as well as our vision “to create a better everyday life for the many people” – for customers, but also for our co-workers and the people who work at our suppliers. You will work and thrive in a truly people and planet positive work environment.
Some of the perks that we offer:
- A workplace where you can be yourself
- Equal pay (Our salaries are set independently of race, gender, age or other individual characteristics)
- Continuous learning on the job as well as structured trainings and platforms
- Co-worker discount
- World’s greatest colleagues
And much more…