VP, Unit Lead Engineer, Application Platforms

Company Description
H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.


Job Description
We are now looking for VP, Unit Lead Engineer, Application Platforms that will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery and health of the core application platform built to power H&M products and services across the global ecosystem. You will help to drive development, core platform maintenance platform engineering supporting critical business services across H&M and automation to accelerate product delivery, and ensure consistent and stable services. As VP, Unit Lead Engineer, Application Platforms, you are passionate about developing a modern, secure, stable and scalable ERP platform (currently based on SAP) fit for a modern fashion business. You will lead the (Agile) technical development, required transformation and operations of the Core SAP Tech Platform, thereby providing a core high-quality technology service to the H&M Group business. This includes scaling down and phasing out legacy technology over time, while developing new features on the platform. Ensuring stable, scalable operations and new feature development as necessary to drive business value will be among your key objectives.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
To establish, deliver, and refine a platform engineering roadmap to ensure that all platforms and products remain current, deliver value to product engineering teams, and supports the needs of internal stakeholders in terms of scalability, resilience, security, capacity, and operational maintenance.
Define a technology roadmap that includes deliverables focused on the continued improvement of the supported solutions
Create tools and automated workflow capabilities to enable our software engineers to test and promote code across the different environments and into production with maximum velocity.
In collaboration with Product Engineering, and colleagues in Service Management and Operations, work to reduce or eliminate manual or repetitive tasks, improving the end-to-end health and performance of the underlying platforms.
Responsible for technically modernizing the Core SAP Platform to realize a stable, secure and agile SAP platform, providing a key backbone technology for H&M Group
Responsible for technical support during incidents and development of the Platform
Responsible for translating business requirements into technical requirements and new features
Drive consistency in practice, process, toolset and architecture within Application Platform Engineering
Lead, coach and develop members of the area, promoting best practice in technical architecture and continually benchmarking against industry standards
Formal staff responsibility, including salary review, performance dialogues and support in individual development plans and competence needs.



Qualifications
Proven advanced training in information technology, computer science or equivalent
Extensive experience (showing upward trajectory and diverse experience across multiple teams) in software engineering as well as in leadership positions
Deep experience developing SAP Platforms and S/4 Hana design in Fashion or Retail
Deep knowledge in other major Platforms, (such as like Hybris, Adobe) requirements and transition from existing environments
Experience in managing SAP environments in Cloud and integration needs across Multi-Hybrid Cloud stacks
Deep knowledge in modern architecture principles and distributed systems (e.g. API first, modular application design, microservices, test automation) and interest in the latest technology trends
Demonstrates a combination of a highly-technical engineering leader and effective relationship skills
Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
Deep understanding of the cost drivers in systems delivery and operations and the commercial consequences of the technical decisions made.


Additional Information
Working with tech at H&M Group 
Shaping the future of fashion with people, data, and tech. 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 benefits, parental benefits and a flexible work life, 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 a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive environment. We are committed to create an inclusive & diverse workplace with a culture that is dynamic and innovative.
We welcome your application regardless of who you are, where you’re from and what you like.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
We welcome all applicants to strengthen our innovative and diverse culture.
Learn more about our I&D work https://youtu.be/veRbl9Cijts