职位 ID: REF17145N

发布日期: 02/05/2024

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 and food products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. Do you want to join us, enabling our vision, via technology?

Supply Chain Development (SCD) is 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 that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs.

Within the SCD area of Intralogistics we are responsible for establishing, leading, supporting, and developing logistics solutions for the various IKEA units that have a logistical and fulfilment component, including the development and innovation agenda of intralogistics at IKEA global. In practical terms, Intralogistics shall lead and educate in creating concepts, processes and solutions for IKEA Handling and Storage as well as to act as center of expertise for all establishments of logistics units around the globe. The organization is in strong lead towards a more mechanical and automated goods handling.

Do you get energy from influencing, interacting, and working together to deliver great business results?  Then this is probably a very interesting assignment for you!

So – what does it mean to be a Solution Architect in IKEA? You will lead solution architecture activities within the area of Material flow controls, where you will be driving the creation, revision and implementation of our vision and goals, according to IKEA standards and reference solution architecture. It’s about shaping ideas together, into concrete, robust and appropriate solution architectures, and transition roadmaps, that achieves a fast-growing business.

We know that it can be a bumpy ride to create technical solutions and we would like you to be highly involved in securing that we have the best preconditions, by working proactively & holistically. Ensure IA Test capabilities and capacity.

Further, this will be some of the tasks connected to the role:

• Communicate the solution architectures and transition roadmaps to relevant internal and external stakeholders within and across organization(s). Seek understanding and agreement to ensure aligned and consistent solution implementations across IKEA.
• Ensure that the agreed solution architectures and transition roadmaps guide the scoping of business initiatives, the low-level design and govern the implementation of solutions.
• Collaborate closely with relevant internal and external stakeholders to define and improve solution architecture with learnings from the implementation and industry practices. Support stakeholders and initiatives with in-depth solution and technical expertise.
• Collaborate closely with IT&OT suppliers, influence them with IKEA requirements and have a constructive dialog about proposals to secure the best result for IKEA.
• 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.

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.

We also believe that you have:

• Extensive understanding of the assigned technical area and inter-dependencies both within and outside the organization (the assigned commercial off-the-shelf solutions and/or IKEA build solutions, their functionality, build-in key concepts and structure, components or modules, and their implementation at IKEA).
• Extensive understanding of the technical drivers and business demands.
• Good understanding of technologies/trends, industry standards, application and technology market, and practices with potential to benefit or impact to IKEA.
• Good understanding of solution architecture framework and modelling techniques good understanding of Business Process and IT development governance.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing complex IT/OT solutions in a heterogeneous environment (infrastructure, developed or commercial off-the-shelf applications, bought services, internal and external environments).
• Good knowledge about Material Flow Systems software and infrastructure development practices.
• We expect you to have a very good knowledge of IT and digital organizations, working methods about test management with the relevant experience and track record.

We offer you a position in a fast paced, truly global environment where development and constantly being on the way is in focus! And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow together with us in an international network with future oriented projects and technical innovations. 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!

Submit your application online and in English via our recruitment system SmartRecruiters (please note that applications sent via e-mail will not be accepted) latest on the 30 May 2024. If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please send a message to our recruiting team via SmartRecruiters and we will come back to you. In case of questions connected to the role, please reach out to hiring manager Adam Ayers (adam.ayers@inter.ikea.com).

Please, be aware that this is a fulltime position located in Dortmund, Germany. We also open for candidates that want to be based in Älmhult, Sweden or King of Prussia, USA.

Our culture and values are based on equal opportunities, and we are happy to consider applications from individuals with disabilities.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!