Product Area Engineer - Customer domain

Company Description


We are looking for a Product Area Engineer/ Competence Lead to Customer domain in H&M Business Tech.
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 the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech will deliver technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
In Business Tech, we will continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data and technology. We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world .




Job Description


As a Product Area Engineer in the new Ecosystem Platform Product Area, you will be a fundamental part of driving the creation of the world's greatest fashion experience. In order to be successful, you will need to have a holistic view of the full Commerce set-up and exceptional understanding of decomposable and headless architecture, microservices and all the other related buzzwords. You will also need some understanding of operational aspects of the implementation. If you also have experience from our tech-stack (Adobe, Azure, GCP, Akamai, Commercetools) and how to implement remarkably large commerce systems, you might just be a good fit and find this position exceptionally fun and challenging.
You will be working closely with the Product Area lead Engineer as well as the Product Area Manager from multiple areas and domains to succeed with the technical vision.
As Lead Engineer, you will also be Competence Lead, beeing responsible for success and career for the software engineers in the area.
The Product Area Engineer/ Competence Lead role has a dual focus –staff responsibility and delivery. As a Competence Lead you will have staff responsibility for employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own, working in different product teams within the same product area. Your staff responsibility
General Information goes across different Product Teams and tasks include development conversations, salary review and other staff related activities. You will support, coach and help your team members grow and develop. You will work closely with the product owners within the product area, as well as other competence leads, software engineers and business experts. You will collaborate with stakeholders in other product teams/areas and enabling functions, as well as with logistics operations. You will be able to try out your creative and innovative ideas –and have a large impact on how we shape the future of fashion retail logistics.
This is a highly collaborative organisation with an entrepreneurial mindset where there will be opportunities to try out your creative and innovative ideas.




Qualifications


This position is responsible for providing people leadership to staff and development of their competencies. You will also help driving the decoupling journey and transition from a monolithic tech stack to a decomposable one. In order to do this you will need to collaborate with multiple POs, architects and engineers from multiple domains and product areas. Great communication and people skills will be essential to succeed with this. You will be an advocator for DevSecOps mind-set as well as automation (testing, security, performance etc.).
Your main tasks
Participation and lead in further advancements in the HMs Future Commerce Initiative.
Perform technical and architectural analysis of requirements and impact analysis together with multiple participants form other domains, areas and product teams.
Use an experimental mindset to identify, evaluate and recommend alternative design options which take target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems into account
Set up interaction and knowledge sharing processes among team members in different agile teams.
Create a culture that drives innovation, high quality and outcome-based value delivery.

Who you are
Our journey will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail and learn. You are an important player in this transformation; therefore, we believe you are flexible, stress-resistant and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized. You are probably a developer by heart and have been working as a Solution Architect or Tech Lead within the commerce space.
Furthermore, we believe you have:
Extensive experience in working with IT/system/solution in preferably large, international organizations working with cloud solutions (preferably Azure), API's, Agile, and Devops
Having a good understanding of retail and e-commerce
Experience working with different architectural view-points to identify and understand their dependencies
Experience from using SAFe or other agile methods is an advantage
A great team player
Fluent in English (Swedish is a bonus)





Additional Information


This is a fulltime position. For any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Zoran Pesic zoran.pesic@hm.com.
We are looking forward to your application