Integration Domain Architect – Core Engineering

Company Description


Do you want to work with one of the fashion industry’s biggest tech transformations and develop and manage H&M Groups API & Event Strategy globally?
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. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech is a new modern agile product organization within the larger H&M group which delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. We continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data, and technology.


Job Description


You will be part of the API & Event Integration area. Our mission is to empower and enable product teams to deliver modern integration solutions in a zero-friction environment. As Integration Domain Architect, you will provide expertise and knowledge to support product teams to create modern and stable integration solutions. Your day-to-day job will cover everything from dialogues with Enterprise Architecture functions to business stakeholders, suppliers, and close cooperation with all functions within the Technical Service Area “API & Event Integration” as well as with areas within the Core Engineering to ensure alignment with the overall Integration architecture.
Responsibilities
You will be a part of a team of amazing professionals, working daily to set strategies and make sure that overall identified improvements and activities are being executed and adapted to wanted position for the Service Area. Collaboration with stakeholders will be a part of your work and to spread the message what we are doing within the area to relevant functions that utilize our API & Event capabilities. You will, together with the team set the direction, develop, build, and manage the integration strategy, transforming our legacy integrations to more modern integration patterns. You will also analyze, design, develop and maintain roadmaps and implementation plans to enable future state business and digital capabilities in support of driving targeted business outcomes; ensure organizational resilience. You will have a decisive impact in how we shape the future of H&M Group’s Integration direction and make it fit for supporting our business.
Furthermore, you will:
Contextualize strategic vision and direction; conduct analysis, identify opportunities, constraints and support strategic activities.
Analyze, design, develop and maintain roadmaps and implementation plans.
Review, analyze and facilitate stakeholder understanding of business and technology implication of future direction, influence decisions.
Develop conceptual and logical architecture designs
Develop artefacts that serve as target state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations)
Identify interdependencies and use ‘holistic thinking’ to ensure the cross-team perspective when designing and implementing solutions
Work closely with, and guide, stakeholders to create alignment between business, processes and technology
Facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through consultation on business domain architecture related decisions
Evaluate and drive continuous improvement, reducing technical debt, and enhancing end-to-end value business value.
Participate in internal and external activities related to technology matching and selection to ensure technology choice aligns with overall tech architecture and business strategy
Facilitate best practice sharing and teach architecture thinking to engineering and delivery community
Contribute to the Technical Service Area strategy and OKRs (Objective Key Results).



Qualifications


We believe you are a true team player who has several years of experience of global IT and complex integration landscape with good understanding of Agile methodologies. You take responsibility, work proactively and continuously improve activities in complex, quickly transforming environments You will be a key player in the Technical Service Area, and we believe you are adaptable, collaborative, open-minded and able to work in a flexible environment with a non-prestigious approach. You have proven experience in designing, integrating, and supporting integration solutions in a multi-vendor/multi-cloud IT environment. You also have experience from working with APIs, Events and system integrations. You can understand and visualize concepts that are not yet concrete, and use your problem-solving skills, analytic ability, creativity and customer and business drive to find a solution.
Furthermore, we believe you have:
Experience in designing and best practices of integration solutions in a multi-vendor/multi-cloud IT environment
Knowledge of Architecture frameworks and modelling techniques
Experience in developing integrations in a middleware platform (e.g Biztalk)
Experience in Azure Integration Services and/or Google Cloud Integration Services and tools
Integration development and software development in general
Experience in CI/CD (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub)
Knowledge of API Best practice and design patterns
Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture and Event Patterns



Additional Information


What we offer!
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. You are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
Does this sound interesting?
This is a full-time position based in Stockholm. Please apply in English as soon as possible, but no later than February 25th. We will continuously screen and interview candidates during this period so please send in your application as soon as possible. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Troy.Johansson@hm.com. We kindly ask you however to not send applications to this email address. Due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our career page.
We look forward to receiving your application!