Engineering Manager - Customer Picking Service, Group Digital, Ingka Group

Why should you join IKEA?
● Our strong culture and values that we use in our day to day work life and guide us in our decisions.
● The ambitious challenges we are going after:
o How can we help more of the many people have an affordable and better everyday life at home at the same time, how can we become truly people and planet positive?
o “Change everything (almost!) Going forward, retail will be a mix of digital and physical with excellence in logistics.
● The challenge of transforming such a global iconic brand as IKEA is breath taking
● Our strong belief that diversity in teams delivers better thought through outcomes. We have a high focus on diversity.
● The flexible work life balance. Leaders consistently ensure that my role doesn’t interfere with having a great quality of life out of work
● The incredible people, very humble, supportive and absolutely committed to lead home-furnishing retail into the future and create a better life for more of the many people, by putting the customer at the heart of all we do.


What is the amazing opportunity?
As an Engineering Manager you will be delivering value to customers and co-workers through our logistic products in the ‘Inventory & Logistics’ domain, you will have the exciting challenge to:
● Build and run the technology that underpins our global business
● Create a new IKEA, by building the capability to dynamically shift fulfilment across all our locations, buildings, transport and partners
● Unlocking our plans to:
o Build new engaging city store formats providing convenience to our customers.
o Contribute to our sustainability goals
o Simplify and automate goods flows on a global scale to meet our cost-conscious objectives
● Transform the current IT landscape into a modern technology stack
● Manage one or several teams working within capability area Customer Picking Service and collaborate with other engineering teams and stakeholders at our global digital development hubs.
● Create world class Customer Picking Service IT products which include the capabilities of pick order preparation, perform pick, check & pack and order dispatch.
● Secure efficient integrations which are crucial for Customer Picking Service in a complex IT landscape.
● Take an end-to-end responsibility from design to support of IT products in cross functional engineering teams.
● An engineering team already exists today. When required, be part of recruiting and building your engineering teams.


What would we ask from you?
● To have a relentless passion and vision for meeting the customer promise. Motivating engineers to be outcome focused, dare to be innovative and determined to solve challenges.
● That you are passionate about our core values - togetherness, simplicity and lead by example are all a natural part of our everyday working life at IKEA. As a person you have great willpower and the ability to create enthusiasm around you, to dare challenge conventions and make mistakes.
● To have a track record of building teams at pace and still creating happy and focused teams, including manager responsibilities for employed and consultants. Take accountability for the total technology costs.
● To inspire your engineering teams and others to build the highest standard of software that builds confidence with our customers, operations and stakeholders due to its excellence in agility and resilience. Be strong on the architectural side and be able to communicate and spread the knowledge.
● To have practical experience of the following practices: version control of every component / deployment automation / continuous integration / trunk-based development / test automation / test data management / shift left on security / loosely coupled architecture (e.g. domain driven design, microservices, API 1st) / empowered teams / monitoring / proactive notifications.
● To create a one team atmosphere between all co-workers in engineering, product, data science, business development, operations etc. Focused on delivering value together. Be able to guide the team when it comes to technology and other areas to create value for the customer.
● To enjoy building your teams with a DevOps mentality to develop new, scalable, enterprise technology, able to run our global operations 24/7.
● Beneficial is experience from global products in a complex product landscape


About the Customer Picking Service product and engineering team
Customer Picking Service is supporting our IKEA stores to pick, pack and hand out of customer orders. Either at the store or through home delivery. We are currently on a journey of moving the product into a cloud native solution using Java Spring Boot and React as a base. As an engineering manager you will be a core part of this inspiring journey and in a true agile environment.
Tech stack:
· front-end: Node.js, React, Recoil, Material-UI, Nginx, Docker
· back-end: Java, Spring boot, Docker
· messaging: Stomp, AMG, Kafka
· database: PostgreSQL, Redis
· monitoring and logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
· cloud: OpenShift, Google Cloud