Engineering Manager – IKEA Marketing & Communication AB

We are looking for someone that's passionate about technology and people with the passion to coach and develop great engineering teams, facilitating good teamwork, and building fantastic products.  Your mission is to deliver a common M&C technology foundation for IKEA to enable IKEA to deliver an attractive omnichannel experience, enabled by an effective digital work foundation for our co-workers. Preferable you have a good understanding and global experience of digital marketing and content management lifecycle architecture and technologies. 

In your role as Engineering Manager, you will lead and guide our software engineering teams in the development of a common M&C technology foundation for IKEA customers and co-workers.  You will coach our managers and co-workers by ensuring they are constantly growing as engineers, while solving complex technical problems that deliver value to our customers and co-workers. Additionally, you will contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the technology leadership within IKEA. 

To succeed in this role you are self-motivated and creative and have the natural drive to learn and pick up new challenges.  You share our goal of creation of invincible data- and outcome-driven teams with empowered and motivated people​ 

Your assignment will include: 
Develop and lead common M&C technology capabilities e.g. digital platforms, products, data, services and workflows for IKEA 
Develop the technical vision and long-term technology strategy for M&C 
Secure proper design, architecture, and technology in place for M&C technology platforms and products 
Secure preconditions for efficient software development for both SaaS solutions and bespoke SW development 

Build, lead and develop teams of world-class engineers and engineering managers 
Collaborate closely with business and technology stakeholders (including suppliers) to improve solution architectures with learnings from best practices within software development and industry 
Drive Operational Excellence across team’s services. 
Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives in the IKEA technology network 
Qualifications 

You are passionate about technology and appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning technology trends and requirements into practice. You are the type of person that can manage to see the big picture as well as the details and you collaborate and communicate with your stakeholders to build trust and partnerships to reach our common goals. 

You will bring with you deep understanding and experience software development combined with an understanding of the current and future digital technology trends, industry standards, architecture frameworks and modelling techniques.  

You have knowledge of following areas: 
M.Sc. in computer science or equivalent academic degree within the area of IT and a minimum of 10 years of experience from leading and delivering software in a global setup 
Preferable experience from design and development of Martech platforms such as Digital Asset Management (DAM), Product Information Management (PIM), Content Management (CMS), API creation, cloud services, marketing automation, CRM and e-commerce 

Understanding of modern data architectures, data extract mechanisms, functional decomposition and business rules engines 
Agile, DevOps working set-up and how to deliver cloud-based solutions. 
The ability to lead build and lead cross functional teams 
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a drive for result and optimization 
Creative and innovative, able to challenge common ways of thinking. 
Additional information 

We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest January 9th, 2022. Please note that we will be interviewing candidates continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. 

Position will be in Älmhult and will require some travelling. 

You will report to Ulrika Brodin, Digital Transformation Manager. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Jakob Bergström at +46 70-147 48 90. 

Company Description 

At IKEA, we do things a little different. We think, differently. Act, differently. And work differently as well. We like to break things. Like rules. And then make things. Like music-playing lamps. And beds disguised as sofas. Even plantballs that help us look after our planet. It’s all part of our vision - to create a better everyday life for the many. And it’s been keeping our co-workers going for over 75 years. By 2030, we hope to help millions more look forward to going home. Maybe you can help us? 

We want to become an even more affordable, sustainable, and accessible home furnishing retailer in an omni-channel reality. We bring business and data & technology together to improve how we work and meet customers and enable us to focus on creating value. So we can continuously improve and scale IKEA, together with our partners and the many people. 

IKEA is on a transformation journey with the aim to combine our home furnishing knowledge with digital capabilities. The focus in our digitalization of marketing communication is to enable effective planning, creation and distribution of impactful content across all channels and markets, all while enabling collaboration with partners and external parties across the globe.