Information Architect to H&M Data Foundation

Company Description
The H&M group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviors are transforming the fashion retail industry.


Business Tech is a new modern agile product organization within the larger H&M group. We are a team of small and cross-competent teams each owning a product end-to-end with a mission to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. While being autonomous teams, we still need guidance in how to develop our solutions to be interoperable and to meet future customer needs. This is where your role comes to play.
Job Description
This is a unique opportunity for you as an experienced information architect to take part in shaping the future state of the H&M Group core data objects. In this role, you will be a key player ensuring the strategic directions of the company are supported by our data structures.


As our Information Architect, you will be a part of Business Tech Data Foundation within the AI, analytics & data domain. The product area has a mission to create, structure, and guard data and ensure that it is available, understandable and of high quality. Our vision is to ensure that structured and qualitative data is available for all product areas and initiatives as well as our business functions to support H&M becoming a data driven organization.
You will join a smaller team of architects who are all passionate about the H&M Group core data objects – customer, product, supplier and enterprise structure. Together as a team, you will work on the target information models and flows for those objects in a complex landscape. You will have a chance to be involved in the larger business initiatives to validate the target models, and you will work with many different stakeholders to safeguard the technical solutions.
Less is more. Here's a list of what you also can expect working as Information Architect
Maintaining relevant logical information model (LIM) for core object
Establishing target LIM for core object, aligned with future business needs, and signed off by stakeholders
Setting guard rails for core object, and continuously keeping track of larger business initiatives to enforce/adapt target LIM to secure interoperability
Communicating and educating around the core object target LIM as being the frame of reference within H&M Group
Assess relevant as-is E2E information flows for the core object and, in collaboration with stakeholders, design and communicate target flows

So, come and join us, bring you passion to H&M and let's drive change together!
Qualifications
As our future colleague, we believe that you posses the following skills and experiences:
Several years’ experience working with information architecture, business architecture or similar
Experience of logical data modeling
Worked with both technical and business questions
Experience from large and global organizations
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

It is beneficial if you have previous experience from project management and agile way of working.



We believe that you are communicative, curious, and structured. You are a true team player, self-sufficient enough to take initiative and you have a positive attitude. You have a holistic mindset and are typically skilled in enabling collaboration and empower teams.
Additional Information
Please apply with your CV as soon as possible, no later than 16th of February.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Jonas Buskenfried, Product owner, at jonas.buskenfried@hm.com.


We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and the background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users.