Job ID: 20933CN

Date posted: 11/12/2024

WHO YOU ARE
Lead the transformation of ingka into a data driven company, where seamless, controlled and reliable
consumption of data across our platforms and systems is the norm, and informed decision-making that improves business performance is happening at scale inside domains, functions, and countries.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Take responsibility for the building, operation and maintenance of data platforms and systems, including cloud based services, that enable distributed data consumption and value-generating usage by teams and other end-users, as part of cross-functional digital product teams
• Produce all required design specifications and lead team members in the implementation of appropriate data
models, schemas and their associated processing and transformation pipelines, in order to satisfy changing
business requirements while ensuring continuously stable running operations
• Build software that is cost-effective and robust with respect to imperfect data streams and architectural conditions,
minimizing unintended errors and system down time, and ensuring a resilient technological foundation for analytics
• Deliver flexible digital solutions by applying modern software development practices and related technologies, in
close collaboration with others
• Write highly elaborate SQL queries that Extract, Transform and Load data from storage to an appropriate format,
using joins, nesting and more advanced operations as an integral component of data processing pipelines, with cost
and execution time efficiency at top of mind
• Build and contribute to our evolving software library of internal Ingka data processing tools and actively encourage
others in the broader engineering community to do the same, in order to minimize the amount of repetitive work
happening in product teams across Group Digital, and empower individual team members to contribute more
efficiently to analytical problem-solving
• Implement data validation checks and data quality dashboards, in order to ensure a high degree of trust in the data
residing in the systems, as well as in the decisions supported by insights extracted from it
• Lead and educate the organization on agile ways of working in relation to software development, including rapid
prototyping and outcome-based evaluation, in order to ensure that we realize the OKRs set by Group Digital
• Proactively manage relevant organizational processes, to drive an intended outcome
• Ensure that analytics solutions are built according to best practices by continually learning from and benchmarking
against industry standards
• Engage in interviewing, coaching and mentoring of junior team members in order to secure transfer of competence
and a high performing team
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.