Solution Architect – Supply Chain Planning Development, Supply Chain Development

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We are on the journey to transform our digital capabilities, bringing core business processes, people, data & technology together - an enabler for IKEA to become an even better home furnishing company in the future. A journey that needs passionate people who embrace change and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do great things.

Supply Chain Development (SCD) is one of the business units at IKEA Supply and we are on an exciting journey! By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development and innovation agenda into one organization, embedding management and development of processes and digital solutions into the business, we will meet the future with the right competences and business capabilities. By this we will also create the preconditions to a world class supply chain that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs. We are now looking for Solution Architect within area of Supply Chain Planning Development within SCD.

As the Solution Architect, you will mainly work with following:

• Gathering business requirements, analyzing complex requirements and providing optimal solutions, performing fit-gap analysis and proof of concepts.
• Designing scalable and efficient solutions aligned with business needs, ensuring solutions meet business requirement/value, security standards and compliance regulations.
• Govern that the design of the solutions conforms to the overall solution architecture and in line with the enterprise architecture principles, directions and best practices.
• Ensure architecture covers customer experience and environmental factors, while identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Create roadmaps balancing foundational changes with ongoing business value, considering future uncertainties.
• Lead architecture activities, providing guidance for improvements, design reviews, and lifecycle management.
• Cloud platforms (Azure, GCP), software architecture, cyber security, CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture.
• SQL/No SQL Databases, programming language constructs and data integration concepts and patterns.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

Do you have good communication skills, embrace change, highly adaptable, self-driven leader, capability to learn new skills and a team player?

While Solution Architect is your core competence, you also possess additional skills where you will be assigned tasks based on business needs. Therefore, your task/responsibilities may varies depending on the match between your different competences and business needs. This gives you the ability to deliver value through your different skills and learn different domains.

If this is what you have been seeking, continue reading and reflect in your application how you, with your experience, knowledge, motivation and capabilities will contribute as a cross function team member working in an Agile environment.               

To be successful in the position as Solution Architect we believe that you have:

• Collaborate with teams and partners to turn business needs into practical solution designs and implementation roadmaps, driven by a passion for business, technology, and people.
• Ensure solutions consider all key aspects, resolving conflicting priorities and balancing long-term changes with continuous value delivery, enhancing business value and co-worker experience.
• Share and explain solution designs and roadmaps, in a clear and inspiring way, to ensure alignment across the organization, leveraging strong analytical, technical, and communication skills.
• Ensure solutions follow company standards and IT strategies, suggesting changes when necessary, with a growth mindset and awareness of Agile methodologies.
• Use solution designs and roadmaps to define scope, guide detailed designs, and support implementation, backed by extensive knowledge of digital technologies, industry standards, and development practices.
• Lead architecture work, spot opportunities early, and drive transformation with a strong understanding of IKEA's business model, strategies and processes.
• Priority will be given to those who have strong experience working with IKEA Supply Chain IT landscape; in combination with strong development background, prior experience working on standard S&OP Products/Platforms.

Company Description

Inter IKEA Group brings together three core businesses: Franchise, Range and Supply. Together we work constantly to improve the IKEA offer and make it more accessible for the many people. IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.
 

Together, we create a workplace where everyone feels free to be themselves – to experiment, try new ways, and dare to ask, “What if…?” We believe in everyday personal growth and offer the opportunity to develop your career globally. At IKEA we have a vibrant culture where ideas are heard, where there is opportunity to learn new skills and where the goal always is "to create a better everyday life for the many people". We give down-to-earth, straightforward people the possibility to grow, both as individuals and in their professional roles. We offer this position in a fast paced, truly global environment with an endless supply of challenges and development opportunities.

Additional information

We look forward to receiving your cover letter and application in English. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. This position is based in Älmhult, Sweden or Pratteln, Switzerland.

We regret that we are unable to handle applications made by e-mail. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 23 May 2025. For more information about the position, please contact Stephanie Soong at sukmei.soong@inter.ikea.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at katie.pettersson2@inter.ikea.com.

We look forward to receiving your application.