Solution Architect - (Customer) Domain Level

Company Description
The H&M group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data and technology. We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world.
Job Description
Do you want to take part in shaping the future for our customers? Are you a customer-centric Architect with passion for modern techniques? If so, listen up! We are currently looking for a Solution Architect within the Customer Domain in the Business Tech organization and the exciting product area External and New Sales Channels. Our inclusive team welcomes new members eager to develop themselves personally and professionally in a fast-paced and varied environment while demonstrating the values of the H&M Group. Come and help us extend our customer reach by opening up our assets to new and external sales channels!
As a Solution Architect, you are responsible for the entire software life cycle – design, development, test, release and maintenance and to translate business needs into working software. Regardless of area, tools or languages, a solution architect builds and configures solutions that are easy to maintain and change, enabling a constant delivery pace to be kept indefinitely. This is achieved through continuous attention to technical excellence and good design, with extensive use of automation.
The Solution Architect should believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. We believe that you are focused on value creation, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability. Delivering exceptional customer and business results.
In order to solve complex engineering problems and to ensure an aligned technology roadmap, you will tackle these challenges together with other product areas. We are on a journey together which means there is no clear path, therefore you will guide and lead the area during our ongoing transformation.
You have an entrepreneurial mindset and you get excited when you create something new and challenge the status quo. In your work it is important for you to keep it simple, be humble, open to new ideas and to contribute in technical discussions. In this role you need to have the ability to comprehend the different architectural viewpoints and identify and understand their dependencies.
Work tasks
You can see the big picture, identify patterns and instinctively know how to win support for your ideas.
You can create artefacts such as conceptual, and logical architecture and know-how to visualize and do capability mapping.
You can understand and visualize concepts that are not yet concrete, and use your problem-solving skills, strong analytic ability, creativity and customer and business drive to find a solution.
You take the initiative and are not afraid to take the first steps to identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues and opportunities.
You should have extensive knowledge of enterprise networking systems, together with advanced problem-solving skills, and the ability to understand business challenges and technical issues and develop effective technology solutions to meet those requirements
You show commitment and ownership and demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy.
You are open to change and humble about not always knowing everything, so you ask.
You are an effective team player that can express technical concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and conclusions to peers and people with only limited technical backgrounds and contribute positively to your team environment.



Mandatory requirements, both competence and tools:
Have end to end experience from e-com solutions and business processes
Architecture/Engineering experience in e-commerce expansion & implementation projects
Experience in working with remote parties and resources
Experience from agile development
Knowledge of Architecture frameworks and modelling techniques
Functional and technical architecture
Business analysis
Systems integration
Architecture and solution arch development
Technical change management
Stakeholder management
Business process management



Qualifying requirements:
Experience creating system design and models used as part of the software solutions
Experience of collaborating effectively with external partners, engineers in other Products/Areas or enabling engineering teams to solve and reduce technical dependencies
Experience having technical discussions with external partners regarding solution creation, development roadmap and backlogs
Used to facilitating agile ceremonies, development planning and discussion around MVP:s based on partner capability and architectural landscape
Experience evaluating, onboarding and maintaining external partners
Knowledge in Azure DevOps and/or other cloud environments
Knowledge of API design and integration, published API services to cloud
Know of JSON, REST, XML, HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, REACT and Node.js
Have experience from SEO, working agile and E-commerce
Previous H&M experience