Solution Architect

Company Description

You see things a little differently. So do we. We offer positions that will challenge your skills and let you grow. We put togetherness at the heart of everything we do. Come see things a little differently with us.

IKEA is one of the world's leading home furnishing companies. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

IKEA Core Business 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.

Supply Chain Development (SCD) is one of the business units in Core Business 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. This will enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs.

Within the SCD Area Intralogistics Development organisation we are responsible to break it down and to establish, lead, support and develop logistics solutions for the various IKEA units that have a logistical and fulfilment component.

IKEA Purchasing & Logistics Services (US) Inc. in King of Prussia, PA is part of our Supply Area Americas region which also has an office in Mexico City, Mexico and Curitiba, Brazil, and is a subsidiary of the Inter IKEA Group.

Job Description

As part of the SCD Area Intralogistics Development organisation’s assignment we connect internal IT specialists and external Service Partners to develop, operate and maintain need oriented, innovative IT solutions, kept up to date – both from technical and functional perspective. Furthermore, we globally support a huge number of Supply Chain Projects to make IKEA available for the many.

As a Solution Architect for Intralogistics Digital Services (IDS) you

• are responsible to make sure the planned solution, which is in the build-up phase, is aligned with all connected and dependent solutions and meets the overall IKEA IT architecture principles, relevant policies, rules and standards.
• lift the existing digital solution portfolio of warehouse steering to a new, state-of-the art, micro service architecture based cloud solution, offered as a SaaS solution to IKEA logistic units.
• shape ideas – in close collaboration with relevant internal and external stakeholders – into concrete, robust and appropriate solution architectures (high level design) and transition roadmaps (for implementation).
• secure that the solution architecture reflects customer and co-worker experience, time to market, sharing and collaboration, functional, technical, infrastructure, operational, security, financial, social and environmental considerations.
• lead solution architecture activities within the assigned area e.g. the creation, revision and implementation of vision and goals, standards and reference solution architectures (reusable for the enterprise), handling of deviations and exceptions, ensuring architecture requirements for life cycle management of products and services, perform design reviews, provide guidance for service improvements and service transition.

Qualifications

You have a strong interest in supply chain and intralogistics as well as in technology, digitalization, and automation. You have a passion for planning and leading in a global assignment and to drive and develop the business and yourself to deliver excellent results. Moreover, you have a desire to collaborate and interact with various stakeholders.

You are a match for IKEA and this role when you:

• have an IT background and already worked with software development, design and/or architecture, ideally in the area of cloud solutions and agile development methods.
• good understanding of digital technologies/trends, industry standards, application and infrastructure market, and digital practices with potential to benefit or impact IKEA.
• like to take responsibility and have high interest in improving a fairly broad digital solution portfolio.
• have a good understanding about system integrations and are able to discuss technical interfaces on the needed detail level.
• have minimum 3-5 years of IT development and design experience.
• like working in a multi-cultural environment.

Additional Information

The position is based in Dortmund, Germany or King of Prussia, PA, U.S. and will require some travelling.

At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us!

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. 

Want to learn more about current opportunities? Come say Hej (hello in Swedish) here:  https://about.ikea.com/en/work-with-us