Software Engineer

IKEA is on a transformation journey with the aim to combine our home furnishing knowledge with digital capabilities. The focus in our digitalization of marketing communication is to enable effective planning, creation and distribution of impactful content across all channels and markets, all while enabling collaboration with partners and external parties across the globe.

To enable our transformation, we are now looking for a Development Lead within Content domain to lead our technology team within Marketing & Communication Digital Transformation.

We strongly believe that you are a person who has good understanding and global experience of digital marketing and content management lifecycle architecture and technologies. Since the domain provides services on an enterprise level, it is important you have extensive working experiences of enterprise content management workflows and platforms. We also see experiences from leading developers to build usable products, as well as being a good communicator who sees the whole picture and can handle the overall technical development across the Content products.

To succeed in this role, you are self-motivated and highly technical with best practices view on how to lead the developers in their day-to-day technical development of products. It is a huge advantage if you have experience of working with PIM, DAM, headless CMS, Marketing Automation platforms and cloud-based solutions within MarTech stack.

In your role as a Development Lead, you will lead and guide development teams within M&C Digital transformation journey.

Your assignment will include:
Lead the technical development of MarTech platform within Marketing & Communication
(CMS, DAM, PIM, APIs).
Co-define the technical roadmap along with the architect.
Setup development practices working in Agile teams. Ensure good code quality, Test driven Development, Build CI/CD pipelines, ensure the code reviews are done.
Help introduce design patterns that can help development of technical solutions which is optimized as per need.
Secure proper design, architecture, and technology in place for digital technology platforms such as Digital Asset Management and products related to Marketing Communications to enable IKEA to provide an omni-channel experience to its customers across the marketplace.
Take part in design and development of digital capabilities within Marketing & Communication to enable creation of impactful communication across channels and markets for IKEA customers and co-workers.
Collaborate and help the technology team of software and data engineers.
Help the product owners and specialist on the technical inputs with respect to the roadmap of the products.
Ensure quality guidelines and control process are created and implemented for the technology platforms and products
Collaborate closely with business and IT stakeholders (including suppliers) to improve solution architectures with learnings from best practices within software development and industry.

Sounds interesting?

We look forward to receiving your application in English latest 1st of July 2021. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Digital Product Manager Anna Carolina Wiklund at annacarolina.wiklund1@inter.ikea.com. If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Marie Sandman on +46 768545309,
Sounds interesting?

We look forward to receiving your application in English latest 26th of May 2021. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact IT Architect Abhishek Kumar at abhishek.kumar7@inter.ikea.com. If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Emil Gretland on +46 737197289.