Technology Architect

WHY WE LOVE YOU
You have a passion for technology and innovation, it makes you appreciate the mix of actions and strategic thinking, turning architecture into practice. You have a product-centric mindset, are open to change and get energized working both independently and interdependently. You share and live the IKEA culture and values.
To be successful as Technology Architect you have proven advanced education in information technology, computer science or equivalent. You have working experience with digital workplace productivity and business process management in large enterprise environments. You have preferably worked in the areas of enterprise service management, digital collaboration, device management and application delivery. We believe you have minimum of 5 years of experience from product and engineering organizations where you have had proven a responsibility for the architecture of a domain that stretching across multiple technology capabilities and coexistence with legacy. You are experienced in cloud-native, event-driven development applying API First. You have worked with Open Source and automation in delivering software. In addition, we also believe you have deep understanding in Enterprise Architecture and how to keep an architecture together across areas in the Technology landscape within in the retail business. Equally so how to modernize the existing legacy estate and put new infrastructure enablers in place that unlocks speed and flexibility.
We see that you have a strategic and holistic mindset being able to define the future state of the Digital Workplace architecture as well as:
• Influence decisions at several levels the company – from Sub-domain to Engineer
• Drive architecture work for an area of the technology landscape coexisting legacy and digital products
• Develop architectures for massive internet scale
• Solve deep technical problems in a landscape transforming with several business models
• Drive common purpose across diverse stakeholders
• Set long term strategic direction and manage its trade-offs
• Deep knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, omnichannel and retailing
• Work outcome-led, across application and infrastructure architecture
• Experience in agile development practices
• Experience having worked with domain architecture in a product and engineering organisation
As a person you are a good collaborator, have strong leadership skills leading architecture work and work with diverse stakeholders. You pay attention to detail and actively acquire new knowledge, skills and champions new methods to improve performance in deliveries. You possess knowledge across a range of different technology stacks, ideally applied within a retail sector, and can change direction based on new ideas, approaches and strategies.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Technology Architect, you will develop the technology architecture landscape across IKEA and be part of setting the course with sound engineering/architecture through principles and standards that enable guidance for teams. By influencing decisions across multiple levels you make sure to set and drive the future architecture across both legacy and new products (at scale). Your personality allows you to balance common purpose amongst a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure reaching both short- and longterm goals.
In this role You are:
• Responsible to drive and develop the architecture in area of Digital Workplace ensuring its architecture fits together in the overall Technology domain context and the total landscape
• Responsible for defining the future architecture direction for in area in the Digital Workplace, the coexistence with legacy, defining boundaries of capabilities and where to implement what
• Resolve architecture topics in significant landscape changes affecting the sub-domain
• Provide the architecture perspective on prioritizations in a sub-domain context, its consequences and impact to reach the Sub-domain strategies and outcomes
• Drive and develop to the architecture roadmap view for the sub-domain as well as drive the execution
• Develop the Enterprise Architecture practices and architecture guardrails used in our product teams
• You participate in acquisition activities including technical guidance and assessments from a technology landscape perspective