Solution Architect - Ivalua Platform

Inter IKEA Group brings together three core businesses: Retail Concept, Range and Supply. Together we work constantly to improve the IKEA home furnishing offer and make it more accessible for many people. You will be part of IKEA Supply and the Supply Chain Development organisation. 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.

Supply Data and Technology is part of Supply Chain Development. In this team, we are working to manage the Ivalua platforms. The platform hosts the processes and solutions to support throughout the whole life cycle partnership with a supplier, from potential cooperation to the end of joint business. Our support, covering IT tools and adaptation to legal compliance as well as our own rules and regulations, is directed to all IKEA supply units.

This role includes essential duties and responsibilities:

• In collaboration with stakeholders, bring ideas or business needs into business value through solutions.
• Understand the digital product’s overall application portfolio, business priorities, and success measures to design robust architecture and solutions.
• Proactively identify and advise on opportunities to deliver better business results (e.g. related to technological trends and players, roadmaps, customer value, cost, benefits, impact, risks, dependencies).
• Secure, develop and review high-level design to support running business and provide guidance towards service improvements and service transition.
• Collaborate with other Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects ensuring that the product/platform adheres to the Technology Architecture.
• Communicate the solution architectures and transition roadmaps to relevant internal and external stakeholders within and across organization(s).
• Govern and seek understanding, agreement to ensure aligned and consistent solution implementations across IKEA.
• Support and be part of projects, initiatives and take responsibility for securing IKEA’s architecture vision and goals.
• In a close dialog with stakeholders create and shape business and IT-related ideas into current state, future state, and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of solutions.
• Design, review and approve the integration designs for integrating the Ivalua platform to rest of the IKEA systems
• Participating and recommending options for performance improvements on the platform
• Document and maintain artefacts related to system design and design decisions
• Is responsible for securing the architecture vision and goals of the Ivalua platform in the solution architecture and the system development process

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, dare to question and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do great things.

We’re doing some amazing things in IKEA Supply; therefore, we need some amazing people – this position is not an exception.

To be successful in this role, we believe you must have:

• A solid development background and understanding the Software development processes and of solution architecture concepts.
• Working experience on Web technology, Cloud platform and SaaS solutions.
• Knowledge of data integration approaches like ODI, Kafka, MFT and API.
• Practical experience working in Agile and DevOps.
• A passion about technological trends & constantly keeps you updated in how new technology can be utilized to bring value to a modern enterprise system landscape.
• Good understanding about system integrations and can discuss technical interfaces on the needed detail level.
• Excellent analytical skills and apply a systematic approach to think through end-to-end solution architecture, encompassing all necessary solution components.
• Strong competence of SQL Server development.
• Strong stakeholders’ management skills.
• Experience from global implementation projects or larger solutions/platforms.
• Working experience in procurement products or software would be an advantage.

• Strong competence and knowhow in the digital platform Ivalua (S2P and L3 certified)
• Experienced in using models, methods and tools within analysis and design and have good knowledge of general IT frames e.g. standards, infrastructure and platforms, frameworks, development concepts and processes.

You should be able to make advanced technical solutions understood and embraced by both technical and non-technical co-workers.

As a person you are appreciated for collaborative spirit and how you lead with strong focus on both technology and people. You create impact and inspiration regardless of function or formal reporting lines.

We look forward to receiving your 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 Malmö or Älmhult, Sweden.

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 24 Nov. 2025. 

For more information about the position, please contact Ivalua Platform Leader Uma Mahesh Mekapati at umamahesh.mekapati@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.