Enterprise Architect - People Domain [Amsterdam]

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 an 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 HR space, with an HR tech background. We believe you have a minimum of 5 years of experience from product and engineering organisations in a leading position and a 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.

We see that you have a strategic and holistic mindset, being able to drive change hence:

• 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
• Lead and motivate teams of technologists
• Vast experience having led product engineering and architecture teams

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 setting the course with strategic direction, principles and standards that enable guidance for the organisation. You will be responsible for the people and culture domain, where you will lead large-scale transformation programs to transform our HR landscape with its architecture and people, managing a team of technology architects. Your personality allows you to manage a diverse set of senior stakeholders up to the 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
• It is preferred if you have experience within a retail environment.

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.

At IKEA we are convinced that an equal everyday is a better everyday. We put equality, inclusion and humanism at the heart of everything we do, including recruitment. We are committed to creating a workplace as diverse as the world is, and as inclusive as the world should be. We actively work for IKEA to be a place where people of all genders, ethnicities, races, nationalities, abilities, sexual orientations feel welcome and able to be themselves.