Enterprise Architect for Sustainability

As an Enterprise Architect for Sustainability, you will lead the business architecture and IT & Application Architecture for the value stream, with a true passion to anchor people and planet positive movements in robust architecture patterns from “forest to store”. You will support the movement from early experiments to derive sustainability drivers, to the implementation of efficient architecture patterns in critical applications and analytics from product development, through supply chain execution to omnichannel retail.

You will be responsible for the framing of sustainability as a value stream, assessing underlying capabilities, identifying gaps, and casting the resulting movements into roadmaps and robust scoping of initiatives/epics.  This includes impact on people, process, information, technology and organisation. Stressing a decoupled and componentized application architecture that embraces the old and the new.

More specifically, in this role you will be accountable for: 
Data & Information architecture for Sustainability, identifying drivers and robust information objects that will become key elements in our canonical data model used for integration and analytics across the value chain
Application & IT Architecture for Sustainability. Evolving our target architecture to include a sustainability focus, through software selection & solution design, supporting the framing of  robust implementations.
Evolving the Business Architecture and value stream work for sustainability, From the identification of capability uplifts to developing a strategic network (from senior leaders to subject matter experts), strengthening the role of architecture as an enabler of a consistent business blueprint.
Responsible for up-to-date architecture artefacts and architecture patterns. Partnering with project teams to design, create and re-use of the same 

Evolve the Enterprise Architecture discipline and competences, especially value adding services like conceptual solution design, embedding architecture into the development teams (Classic or Agile), and creative ways of supporting the digital transformation. 
Shared Responsibility for the Inter IKEA Architecture Roadmap. 
Shared Responsibility for cross-domain architecture scrums / working groups to resolve strategic questions, continuously improve a consistent business and technology blueprint. 
In this role you will report to our Architecture Manager in Data & Technology Range

 

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, we believe you are a strong enterprise architect, able to inspire and mobilize people towards clearly set objectives. 
 
We expect you to have a very good knowledge of information and business technologies with a specific focus on Enterprise Architecture concepts, methodologies and frameworks, and with the relevant experience and track record. You have had hands on experience in what it means to actually implement the addition of new information objects in existing as well as newly selected applications, always with an eye on the end to end flow and respective analytics.  You are comfortable with agile project methodologies and modern IT operations approaches, specifically DevOps, CI/CD and Cloud. 
 
We are looking for a visionary, pragmatic and adaptable architect with strong willpower. You are curious and able to build relationships in order to establish strong trust between the architecture community and its stakeholders. It is also necessary that you carry natural credibility and you have a proven track record of reaching stretch targets. You are an energetic and collaborative leader who has a very good knowledge of IT and digital organisations, strategies and working methods. 

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 regarding our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com or just watch this video: https://bit.ly/ikea-what-if

 

Additional Information
This position is full time and is located in Älmhult, Sweden. 
 
If you have any questions about the role, please reach out to Hartwig Hennighausen Hartwig.hennighausen@inter.ikea.com or +31 (0)650086419) Architecture Manager Inter IKEA Digital. You might have some questions about the recruitment process, and we are more than happy to answer those! Feel free to connect with the People & Culture Recruiter Jakob Bergström, +46 70-147 48 90  
 
Please send your application – CV and motivation – latest 6th of March and tell us why you would be a good fit for this role. We look forward to be receiving your application! 

Company Description

Inter IKEA Group brings together three core businesses: Franchise, Range and Supply. Together we work constantly to improve the IKEA home furnishing offer and make it more accessible for the many people. You will be part of IKEA Supply and the Supply Chain Development organisation. IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.

Together, we create a workplace where everyone feels free to be themselves – to experiment, try new ways, and dare to ask, “What if…?” We believe in everyday personal growth and offer the opportunity to develop your career globally. At IKEA we have a vibrant culture where ideas are heard, where there is opportunity to learn new skills and where the goal always is "to create a better everyday life for the many people". We give down-to-earth, straightforward people the possibility to grow, both as individuals and in their professional roles. We offer this position in a fast paced, truly global environment with an endless supply of challenges and development opportunities.