Senior Software Data Engineer

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU:
At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people!
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN IKEA?
People Data & Insights is on a mission to make data about co-workers and consultants within Ingka available for analytics throughout the organization, while at the same time maintaining integrity, governance and security demanded by GDPR.
Do you want to be part of the journey of helping us embed people data in our business processes and the lives of our many co-workers? Then this challenge is for you.
WHO YOU ARE
As a senior software engineer you like to solve very large and complex puzzles by understanding the puzzle to be solved. By applying your engineering skills, you turn the puzzle into a tangible tool that is scalable, stable and easily maintained. You like to make your colleagues shine and improve by sharing your knowledge and guiding the organization in your area of expertise.
Handling and maintaining large amounts of data in the Cloud is at the top of your list of interests. You take pride in doing so with the high level of governance and security that is needed when working with people data.
According to you, any reoccurring administrative tasks should be automated, and you constantly push for advancing our level of automation so that we can free up as much time as possible to solve new and interesting problems.
OUR TEAMS WITHIN INGKA
People Data & Insights consists of three teams, all working on different aspects of the analytics platform from getting the data all the way to the actual analytics application. The platform is hosted entirely on Google Cloud using BigQuery, Data Form and Cloud functions written in Python. Our frontend is built using PowerBI. All three teams consists of engineers and a Product Owner, and work with an Agile mindset.
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.
From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”
The role is based in Malmö, Sweden.
If you have any questions about the position, please reach out to hiring manager Christian Wikander christian.wikander1@ingka.ikea.com
If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Shivani Vudugu at shivani.vudugu@ingka.com.
Warmly welcome with your application!