Solution Architect

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people – our customers, co-workers and suppliers. The Supply organisation within Range & Supply has approx. 2700 co-workers, in 22 countries and an exciting growth agenda to support meeting many more of the many!
Do you want to play an important role in securing our solutions meet our architectural guidelines, fulfil business needs and are available when our user needs them? Do you have the ability to influence and interact with strong stakeholders?
Solution Area Purshasing & Supplier Development (PSD), Business Solutions Supply, IKEA of Sweden is looking for a Solution Architect
Job Description
The assignment:
Responsible for detailing IT functional and non-functional requirements for given business requirements in the business solution delivery process and project management (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 in order 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 Purchasing area in the solution architecture and the 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 on different levels in accordance to the domain architecture and provide technology advice.

Qualifications
Are you the right candidate?
We believe you solid experience of IT development processes and of solution architecture concepts.
We believe you are experienced in using models, methods and tools within analysis and design and have good knowledge of general IT frames e.g. standards, infrastructure and platforms, frameworks, development concepts and processes. Positive if you have experience from TOGAF framework.
You have excellent analytical skills. You are able to see the big picture as well as the details and to structure information and derive conclusions and consequences out of them.
You are able to interact with strong stakeholders – understand them and their needs as well as making them understand you.
You are able to work in an environment where the pre-conditions may change from one day to another and where we need to deliver these changes with short notice in order not to risk breaking laws and agreements.
You have experience from global implementation projects or larger solutions/platforms used in a global environment.

Additional information
About Business Solutions Supply
Solution Area Purchasing & Supplier Development is a part of Business Solutions Supply at IKEA of Sweden.
Business Solutions Supply is a part of the new unit Supply Chain Development. We secure relevant solutions for IKEA Range & Supply – today and tomorrow. Our goal is to connect business and people with information technology
About Solution Area Purchasing & Supplier Development
We provide and manage business solutions with the focus on Purchasing, IKEA of Sweden and IKEA suppliers. Our co-workers are located in 8 different countries.
Our solutions support business on:
Supplier Management
Supplier Lifecycle
Supplier Qualification(Quality, Sustainability audits and assessments)
Supplier Information
Sourcing
Claim Management
Contract Management
Communication with suppliers


We support users from Purchasing, IKEA of Sweden, Retail, DS, Transport, IKEA Components, IMS, IKEA Food and IKEA Suppliers.
Your Next Challenge?
Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to receiving your application in English.
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Jonas Levin +46 728865384.
The position is in Älmhult.
IKEA offers an exciting and empowering working environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us. At IKEA we believe that when you as an individual grow - IKEA grows!
We look forward to receiving your application