Solution Architect eCom

Company Description


As one of the world’s largest fashion companies with more than 171,000 employees worldwide, H&M is an exciting and dynamic place to pursue a career within the fashion industry. H&M group comprises nine independent brands: H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M Home, & Other Stories, ARKET and Afound. We have over 5,000 stores across more than 73 markets worldwide.
H&M Group is a dynamic organization committed to exceeding customer expectations through collaboration, innovation, and technology. Our tech organization caters to the unique needs of millions of customers, delivering end-to-end solutions for all our brands. As we accelerate digitalization, we seek strong leaders who can bring their best capabilities, innovative ideas, and talented technologists to support the transformative journey of H&M Group.




Job Description


In this role as Solution Architect, you will be responsible for translating business and tech requirements into architecture blueprints. You will also conduct thorough analysis of existing solutions, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
To deliver in this role you will have to evaluate the architecture holistically, use deep technical expertise to understand the business impact of technical components, and give recommendations and guidelines for teams implementing solutions.
This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm, Sweden.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
Contextualize strategic vision and direction; conduct analysis, identify opportunities, constraints and support strategic activities throughout the solution life cycle.
Support and bridge stakeholders understanding of business and technology implication of future direction.
Provide guidance and coaching to advise on options, risks, costs vs. benefits, impact, priorities, etc.
Translate business needs and technical requirements into architectural blueprints, documenting all solution architecture analysis and design.
Identify interdependencies and use ‘holistic thinking’ to ensure the cross-team and cross-initiative perspective – also incorporate broader aspects such as overall product costs/revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security etc.
Analyse, design, develop, maintain and communicate solution roadmaps and transition architectures.
Create architectural designs to contextualize solution(s) development, provide leadership and collaborate with teams to ensure the products/solutions are aligned with business and IT goals including the overall enterprise architecture – e.g., relevant technology strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied.
Evaluate and drive continuous improvement, reducing technical debt and enhancing end-to-end business value.
Participate in internal and external activities related to technology matching and selection to ensure technology choice aligns with overall tech architecture, standards and business strategy etc.
Facilitate best practice sharing and teach architecture thinking to engineering and delivery community.





Qualifications


8+ years of experience in building complex solutions.
Hands on experience driving ecommerce architecture in a multi-country/region setup with focus on business capabilities and process orchestration, such as: customer identification, product information, search and recommendation, checkout, payment.
Experience in ecommerce technical setup and focus such as site performance and reliability, CDN, Cyber Security.
Experience of working in a composable ecommerce landscape with best of breed solutions which cater for different business capabilities needs.
Experience of working with senior business stakeholders, in understanding and driving key ecommerce business outcomes
Proven track record of influencing decision making which aligns to long term business and tech goals.
Experience of developing solution architecture blueprints and driving development in a multi-product team setup.
Working with initiatives from Ideation to realization of business outcome, by visualizing 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 have clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts different stakeholders.





Additional Information


Working with tech at H&M Group
The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations. At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.
What we offer
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, learning communities, wellness and parental benefits, there are a lot of opportunities to experiment and grow in the direction you want. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
H&M Group is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age. Learn more about our I&D work https://youtu.be/veRbl9Cijts
This is a full-time position based in Stockholm. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than end of August. We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Wojciech Dziadura.