Job ID: 236465

Date posted: 06/06/2024

Why we will love you

You have a passion for technology and innovation, it makes you appreciate the mix of actions and strategic thinking, turning architecture into practice and business outcomes. You have a product-centric mindset, are open to change and get energized working both independently and interdependently. You share and live the IKEA culture and values.

To be successful as Enterprise Architect you have proven advanced experience in information technology, computer science or equivalent. You have vast working experience in leading business transformative change, preferably in the omni-channel retail context. We believe you have minimum of 5 years of experience from product and engineering organizations in a leading position and minimum of 10 years of experience in building internet facing distributed systems. Likewise a proven Enterprise Architecture responsibility stretching across larger areas in a company with global stretch and worked with senior leadership.

- Drive and influence common purpose with senior stakeholders up to board level
- Work outcome-led and drive architecture change for a domain setting its strategic direction managing trade-offs with common purpose.
- Extensive knowledge in developing architectures for massive internet scale
- Solve deep technical problems and with extensive digital transformation experience drive the needed architecture shift to meet digital opportunities and enable new business models.
- Deep knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, omnichannel and retailing
- Lead and motivate teams of technologists.
- Vast experience having led product engineering and architecture teams
- The ability to collaborate with marketing, data & analytics, and the various product teams to drive the business strategies and outcomes.
- Familiarity with Product information management and Content management systems.
- Deep understanding of various marketing technologies, including CRM systems, marketing automation platforms, Advertising tech, and analytics tools.
- Proficiency in leveraging MarTech tools that includes measuring social media tools, user-generated content, search engine marketing, SEO optimization tools, and campaign management to enable business-to-business and business-to-customer relationships.
- Expertise in integrating the different marketing technologies with the retail ecosystem to enable seamless Marketing/CRM/Personalization activities.
- Experience with one of the enterprise marketing tech platforms (such as Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, Google, etc.)
- Applied knowledge of marketing concepts and customer journeys to help align marketing technology solutions with marketing goals, strategies, & objectives plus map the alignment to organization's business strategy.

As a person you are a good collaborator, have strong leadership skills – able to actively lead and drive architecture work and collaborate with diverse senior stakeholders. You pay attention to detail and actively acquire new knowledge, skills and champions new methods to improve performance in deliveries. You possess knowledge across a range of different technology stacks, ideally applied within a retail sector, and can change direction based on new ideas, approaches and strategies.

Your responsibilities

As an Enterprise Architect, you are part of the Enterprise Architecture leadership team and will be part of developing the technology landscape across IKEA and be part of setting the course with strategic direction, principles and standards that enable guidance for the organization. You will have responsibility for the Growth & Marketing Digital area, covering Growth planning, Range, Sales steering, Pricing, Content management, CRM, Personalization, Membership, Rewards, Commercial activation & launches that includes Campaign management, Digital communications, Traffic generation, SEO and SEM with its architecture and people manage a team of Technology Architects.
Your personality allows you to manage a diverse set of senior stakeholders up to board level to ensure reaching both short- and long-term goals.

In this role you are:

- Responsible for defining the strategic architecture, legacy coexistence and where capabilities should be implemented to ensure end-to-end flows and avoid costs in duplicate implementations.
- Lead and develop the strategic architecture perspective on roadmap and prioritizations of the domain work and its consequences in order to reach the company’s strategic outcomes.
- Drive and develop the Enterprise Architecture practices and apply the architecture guardrails through the product and engineering teams in order to empower them at scale
- Drive, lead and resolve the big and hard problems that are common across teams in the IKEA value chain.
- Resolve architecture topics in significant landscape changes affecting the sub-domain.
- Provide the architecture perspective on roadmap and prioritizations in the area, its consequences and impact to reach the Sub-domain strategies and outcomes.
- Lead, inspire, develop and manage co-workers in order to secure a high performing team and promote growth.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data and Digital Experience leaders to drive transformative change to meet the strategic outcomes.
- Evolve the Growth planning, Martech, Retail Range, & Content architecture by being adaptable and staying connected to the industry trends.
- Drive the overall architecture view with deliberate consideration of the long-term implication of technology choices and the strategic vision for the evolution of the growth and marketing technology.
- It is preferred if you have experience in Marketing technologies in the context of Omni Channel retailing.

About this work area

We set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fastmoving 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.

In our team we love puzzles and are always looking for ways to make things smarter, safer and more user-friendly. We all come from different backgrounds and together we enable efficient product development and production through innovative engineering. In this role you will report to the Chief Architect for INGKA.

Questions and support? Let's connect!

You might have questions regarding the role, the recruitment process or other practicalities please get in touch with Rhian Denton [rhian.denton@ingka.com]