Solution Architect

IKEA Food, a part of IKEA of Sweden, is on a digital transformation journey, building a completely new digital eco system for the food business. This includes IT solutions to support product creation, range assortment, product information channels, sales solutions and much more
For this journey we are now looking for a technically minded Solution Architect to help guide and steer the development of the technical platforms for the IKEA Food business. With a curious mindset you are willing to learn new technologies and systems and be prepared to work with a broad spectrum of technical challenges.
Job Description
The assignment
To advise, steer and actively participate in projects developing new solutions and the maintenance
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.
In close collaboration with IT and Business architects lead solution activities within the domain, establish solution/infrastructure design in accordance to the architecture

Qualifications
Are you the right candidate?
We believe you have 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 solid knowledge of general IT frameworks.
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. For you, quality is important.
You are able to interact with strong stakeholders confidently – understand them and their needs as well as making them understand you.
You have experience from Optiva PLM and IKEA

Additional information
The Position is located in our central Malmö offices, 2 minutes from Malmö C.
Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as possible. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process if we find the right candidate.
IKEA Food, a part of IKEA of Sweden, develop and provide food, sold and served in IKEA Restaurants, Swedish Food Markets and Bistro´s in 48 markets. Among our Retail Partners there are 18.000 food co-workers serving 640 million food visitors in the IKEA stores around the world
IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA store with home furbishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduce 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is more than 10,000 products. IKEA of Sweden is part of IKEA Range & Supply