Solution Architect
IKEA
- Kronoberg
- Tillfälligt
- Heltid
- In collaboration with stakeholders, bring ideas or business needs into business value through solutions.
- Understand the digital product leader's overall application portfolio, business priorities, and success measures to design robust architectures and solutions.
- Proactively identify and advise on opportunities to deliver better business result (e.g. related to technology trends and players, roadmaps, customer value, cost, benefits, impact, risks, dependencies).
- Secure, develop and review high-level design to support running business and provide guidance towards service improvements and service transition.
- Collaborate with other Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects ensuring that the product/platform adheres to the Technology Architecture.
- Communicate the solution architectures and transition roadmaps to relevant internal and external stakeholders within and across organization(s).
- Govern and seek understanding, agreement to ensure aligned and consistent solution implementations across IKEA.
- Support and be part of projects, initiatives and take responsibility for securing IKEA's architecture vision and goals.
- In a close dialog with stakeholders create and shape business and IT-related ideas into current state, future state, and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of solutions.
- A solid programming and development background and understand the Software development processes and of solution architecture concepts.
- Working experience on Web technology, Cloud platform and SaaS solutions.
- Knowledge of data integration approaches like ODI, Kafka, MFT and API.
- Practical experience working in Agile and DevOps.
- A passion about technology; trends & constantly keep you updated in how new technology can be utilized to bring value in a modern enterprise system landscape.
- Good understanding about system integrations and can discuss technical interfaces on the needed detail level.
- Excellent analytical skills and apply a systematic approach to think through end-to-end solution architecture, encompassing all necessary solution components.
- Strong stakeholders' management skills.
- Experience from global implementation projects or larger solutions/platforms.
- Working experience on Supplier collaboration and/or supplier relationship management products or software would be an advantage.