Solution Architect

Company Description
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people – our customers, co-workers and suppliers.
IKEA is on an exciting growth journey becoming more accessible to the many people. We are investing heavily to develop and digitalize IKEA into the future. IKEA Supply Chain Development will support this journey by delivering expertise in business development while safeguarding running business. This way we empower our co-workers, customers and suppliers with the right solutions to optimise the customer experience and contribute to a growing IKEA.
Our Supplying system landscape is grouped into different Development Areas and today the Development Area Execution supports more than 15 000 users throughout Supply in the areas of Develop Optimal Replenishment Solutions (DORS), Customs, Delivery & Settlement and Order.
The Order domain drives the process and the connected digital solutions development related to management, monitoring and follow up of replenishment orders and stock.
We also provide solutions for the Market Specific Range, which enable IKEA co-workers to order and handle new product requests. Solutions in our portfolio are Order Management System (OMS), Retail Order Information (ROI), Internal Order System (INOS), Market Specific Online (MSO) and Market Specific Range Request (MSRR). Our team is also strongly involved in the Order & Finance Platform (OFP) project with the goal to standardise, simplify, automate and modernise Order and Financial management. The project will put in place a new ‘Digital Core’ for IIG Supply Chain and Wholesale Operations for the years to come.
We are looking for a Solution Architect to Customs team within Execution, Supply Chain Development
Customs is a dynamic area with high business impact. IKEA must be compliant with legal restrictions and regulations to enable goods to flow smoothly across borders keeping our customers all around the world happy.
Customs domain is undertaking a major transformation journey by implementation standardized business processes and solution globally. The transformation journey will take several years to complete.
Customs team within Execution plays an important role for making this happen together with their business stakeholders. Customs team are experts in digital solutions enabling customs business process needs.
Are you experienced in developing, reviewing, and approving high and low-level design of IT solutions? Do you want to work in an area which requires you to both secure high data quality, to be flexible and adapt to changes with short notice?
Job Description
The assignment will include
Responsible for detailing IT functional and non-functional requirements for given business requirements in the business solution delivery process, incl. support with clarifying business requirements if needed.
Secure that IT solutions fulfil the agreed functional and non-functional business requirements.
Secure, develop and review high-level design. Approve low-level design of the implementation of a business transformation with an IT component to support running business, provide guidance towards service improvements and service transition.
Govern that the design of the solutions conforms to the solution architecture and is efficient, meet business requirements and based on a holistic architecture.
Is responsible for securing the architecture vision and goals of the Customs area in the solution architecture and system development process.
In a close dialog with stakeholders create and shape business and IT-related ideas into current state, future state and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of business solutions.
In close collaboration with IT architects lead solution activities within the domain, establish solution/infrastructure design in accordance with the architecture and provide technology advice.

Qualifications
IKEA is rapidly moving into a digital future and we need you to support IKEA on this journey. We need someone who is curious, structured, challenging, and fearless. You have a software development background and are thinking of going into the area of solution architecture.
Do you have what we are looking for?
You are interested in business and like to see how IT can enable people to achieve business results. You feel comfortable to explain technical information to people in a simple and easy-to understand way.
You can interact with strong stakeholders confidently – understand them and their needs as well as making them understand you.
You have excellent analytical skills. You can see the big picture as well as the details and to structure information and derive conclusions and consequences out of them. For you, quality is important.
Are experienced in using models, methods and tools within analysis and design and have solid knowledge of general IT frames e.g. standards, infrastructure and platforms, frameworks, development concepts and processes. If you know or even work with IKEA IT landscape, it will be a bonus.
Are able to work in an environment where the pre-conditions may change from one day to another and where we sometimes need to deliver these changes with short notice in order to avoid risk of breaking laws and regulations.
You have strong social and communication skills and are enthusiastic, driven and structured.
You are fluent in both spoken and written English and have the desire to work in a simple, effective and understandable way.

We have a mix of home-built solutions and bought solutions from providers such as SAP, Descartes & Oracle. Our ambition is to transform into global standard platforms.
Additional information
We look forward to receiving your application in English. For this position we have a preferred candidate. We will close the possibility to apply on the 21st of October.
Älmhult is an inspirational working environment, based on creativity innovation, which gives you the opportunity to work and interact with people from all around the world. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö, and an IKEA shuttle bus run back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.