Architecture Leader

About Us

We are on an exciting journey, establishing the Business Process Management organisation, with Retail Concept Operations. This area will consist of roles connected to processes and capabilities. Retail Concept Operations will be an important contributor to the end-to-end Customer process and are working together across IKEA to secure the value creation through the process.

About You

You believe in leading architecture by developing a strategy, also in providing hands-on follow-up on implementation within the Retail Concept Operations domain. You will make an impact to the IKEA value chain via defined roadmap and epic forums so the architecture principles are harmonized. This means that you must be knowledgeable about architecture principles but also the core capabilities that IKEA as a retailer need. In addition, being part of the Retail Concept organisation, you must have an interest in the IKEA concept. Brand and commerciality as the work is to lead the architecture direction within Retail Concept and align across the value chain.

In this area, we will work very closely with our colleagues in the Range and Supply operations and organizations connected to our retailers. Competence hubs (Chapters) are in place to secure the right competence across the capability areas over time.

About the Job

Retail Concept Operations will work across the leadership areas in Retail Concept, Retail Experience, Brand & Marketing, Learning and Development and Expansion. We are on a journey that needs passionate people who embrace change and development, dare to question and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do wonderful things so IKEA can be an even better home furnishing retailer in the future.

To exemplify what we today we deliver as a part of the capability area within Retail Concept;

· IKEA digital design system – Skapa

· Digital retail experiences – Visa

· IKEA knowledge graph (customer and co-worker)

· IKEA.com/global

· IKEA.net for co-worker learning

· Cornerstone learning solutions

· SEO & Domain

The new roles that we are now recruiting for will be to secure the process dimension and to secure alignment to the overall Operation set up across IKEA and will enable us to take the next step working towards one IKEA.

For you to be successful in this role the following would be preferable;

· Minimum 10 years of Software Engineering

· Experience in IT & Business Architecture

· Experience of Architecture strategy development and communication

· Extensive experience working with, and communicating to, Senior Management teams

· Extensive experience leading others through influence and teamwork

· Good knowledge of general business capability models

· Good knowledge of performance models as Epic Leader

· Ability to work with strategy leaders across IKEA

· Ability to work with network of area expertise

· Good knowledge of the relevant IKEA business processes and strategies and knowledge of the IKEA franchise system, IKEA vision, and IKEA culture and values

· Good knowledge of Agile methods

· You have the capability to navigate and lead business and people in a complex, ambiguous and fast-changing business and technology environment

As Enterprise Architect Leader, you will:

· Lead Architecture Strategy development

· Lead/align/be part of “cross-domain” Enterprise Architecture work groups and scrums as the overall Program Epic Leader and to resolve strategic questions and to establish a consistent business and technology blueprint.

· Lead the architecture assessments for strategic and/or cross domain initiatives that benefit from a panel review

· Lead/be part of the collaboration with other “Networks of Expertise” for overlapping contexts

· Deal with ambiguity, balancing principled follow-through against tactical exceptions

· Lead and work closely together with peers across the totality of Inter IKEA and across IKEA to strengthen and contribute to a strong and relevant IKEA franchise offer

· Lead a team towards a common goal, building trust, delegating responsibilities

· In day to day work balance business needs with IT capabilities

Qualifications

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Additional information

This position is full-time (40 hours per week) and is located in Delft or Malmö.

Please send your application (CV) in English to us by 25 June, 2024. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you want to work at IKEA and why you would be a good fit for this role. In this role you will be reporting to the Business Process Manager.

We want to become an even more affordable, sustainable and accessible home furnishing retailer in an omni-channel reality. We bring business and data & technology together to improve how we work and meet customers, and enable us to focus on creating value. So we can continuously improve and scale IKEA, together with our partners and the many people.