Job ID: 267425

Date posted: 12/12/2024

What you need to know
At Ingka Group?

We have more than 180 000 co-workers in the world that are administrated in our solutions today! We will transform the majority of our digital landscape to support the organization in an efficient and inspiring way the coming years. We need to recreate the way our coworkers connect, to improve the customer interactions. We set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.

What would we ask from you?

• To be resilient and empathetic in the face of the challenge of doing open heart surgery on the IKEA business – transforming our current landscape into something for the next evolution of IKEA.
• To enjoy building your teams with a DevOps mentality to develop new, scalable, enterprise technology, able to run our global operations 24/7.
• We believe you have a relentless passion and vision for meeting the customer promise. Motivating engineers to be outcome focused and innovate/learn to solve business problems.
• That you are passionate about our vison values - values like togetherness, simplicity and lead by example are all a natural part of your everyday working life at IKEA. As a person you have great willpower and the ability to create enthusiasm around you, to dare challenge conventions and make mistakes.
• That you have a minimum of three years’ experience as an engineering manager with a track record of building teams at pace and still creating happy and focused teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 12+ years of experience in software development, technology architecture, and/or IT service delivery
• To have learnt the lessons and can inspire others to why the following practices are important to move towards: Version control of every component / Deployment automation / Continuous integration / Trunk-based development / Test automation / Test data management / Shift left on security / Loosely coupled architecture / Empowered Teams / Proactive monitoring.
• To bring your whole self to work and have fun building a better everyday life for the many.
A day in your life with us
What is the amazing opportunity?

We have set out to change everything (almost!) and we need to change now! We are transforming a global iconic brand which in itself is breathtaking, and within Order Management we are creating the digital equivalent of flat packages. The change is formulated in ten jobs here: https://www.ingka.com/what-we?do/ikea-retail/ Five of the jobs are underpinned by the amazing work we will do in Fulfilment, Logistics & Inventory Management.

There are some interesting challenges to take on:

• Build and run the technology that underpins our global business. Across 377 stores, 40+ fulfilment centers, Click & Collect solutions, Final mile delivery and services like installation in our customers’ homes.
• Create a new IKEA, by building the capability to dynamically flex fulfilment across all our network, buildings, transport and partners - responding to situations like COVID-19 pandemic in near real time to meet our customers' needs and minimizing impact on the planet.
• Transform the current landscape into a modern technology stack which will enable us to test and learn quickly to meet our customers' demands & provide a highly available, resilient & secure service.

We are big believers in enabling our leaders to act with autonomy and as such you would lead on the technical
decisions of how you want to build and implement your products. At Ingka Group Digital we operate in many different domains so the internal growth opportunities are fantastic.

Our team isn’t just a bunch of people stuck together. We come from diverse backgrounds, coming together in the mission of creating a better everyday life for the many people at Ingka. In a true cross functional team with designers, data analysts, engineering, agile coach, and product owner we make this a reality.
The Ingka culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with Ingka it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding our values and life at Ingka on our website https://join.ingka.com & https://www.ikea.com
But most of all, what we really want, is great people to make up diverse and fun teams that share our values and push us all to be our best! If you are passionate about technology and innovation and are looking for an opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers, we encourage you to apply to join our team.
In this role you will report to the Product engineering manager of the Order Management sub-domain. The role is based in Bangalore, India.
Together as a team
We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.