SOFTWARE ENGINEER – IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, GROUP DIGITAL, IKEA

WHO YOU ARE
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 many people.
We are looking for a passionate Software Developer who strives for engineering excellence and excels in constantly changing environments. You are excited about open standards, modern technologies (cloud native), innovative ways of working (cross-functional, autonomous, agile) and you want to take part in shaping the future of IKEA!


As a person you have a proven ability to develop high quality digital services using and applying good practices and open standards. You have a curious nature, and actively acquire new knowledge and skills, using them to adopt new methods and processes to improve performance. On the same side you are happy to share your knowledge and help everyone around you to grow as individual engineers and strong engineering teams.


YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
In this role you will report to the Engineering Manager for the Access Assurance team. The position is based in Sweden.
Your main responsibilities as an Identity & Access Management Systems Engineer, will include:
1. Building software that meets the team’s high standards
2. Contribute to all aspects of the product lifecycle, with a focus on engineering
3. Help maintain and improve our integration and delivery pipeline
4. Support, coach, and guide team members in your areas of expertise
5. Explore and apply new technologies suitable for our product
6. Take responsibility for the product, all the way from idea to runtime, this includes on call duties


YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
You will be part of the development of backend services, cloud architecture, and CI/CD. There are also opportunities for front end work depending on your interest.
Your skills and interests include most of the below:
1. Professional experience in Cloud architecture and services
2. Professional experience in JAVA, such as Spring or Quarkus frameworks
3. Strong understanding for authentication and authorization
4. Monitoring and logs management in Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana.
5. Use to work with CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and GitHub
6. Agile mindset, being a key part of an autonomous, cross-functional Identity and Access Management team
7. We work in an environment that encourages your personal growth where learning is a key factor.




TOGETHER AS A TEAM


Every day we secure that our around 200 000 co-workers get access to the right resource, at the right time, for the right reason. Our team designs, develops and operates resilient Identity Services eco-systems including life-cycle management of co-worker identities as well as application integrations. We are passionate about the journey of the Identity into our complex landscape, where we provide a broad and secure experience for our customers. While we are a tech savvy team we do value individuals and interactions over processes and tools. We enjoy collaborating cross-functionally and working together to respond to changes.


The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com


We believe a healthy and flexible life balance is important, so together we will strive to create a work environment where you feel in control of your life balance, can be yourself, grow and excel in both your personal and professional life. At IKEA, we welcome all dimensions of diversity. A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for our coworkers, for our customers and for our business. Working with differences helps us grow both as individuals and as an organization. ... Simply put: we believe the uniqueness of every individual makes IKEA better!


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 would 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”


Please also note that we only handle applications in English and no applications coming in by email.
You might have some questions and we are more than happy to answer those! If you have any inquiries about the role, please reach out to Engineering Manager Johan Finndahl (johan.finndahl@ingka.ikea.com) or feel free to connect with the recruitment specialist Batool Malik at (batool.malik@ingka.com) about questions regarding the recruitment process.