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Malmö, SwedenStaff+
Responsibilities
- Align engineering work across teams and identify reusable synergies and best practices.
- Own product-area engineering initiatives, technical priorities, and the technical roadmap.
- Govern architecture across individual products and the broader product area.
- Design and refactor products to improve modularity, scalability, integration, resiliency, performance, and reusability.
- Drive adoption of design patterns and cross-cutting platform capabilities.
- Lead technology evolution, architecture roadmaps, and initiatives that improve reliability and delivery velocity.
- Collaborate with technology leaders, software engineering managers, enterprise architects, product software engineers, product managers, and designers.
- Represent engineering and security best practices across the digital product area and broader organisation.
- Own technical onboarding for new engineers and evaluate engineering practices for improvement.
- Work across solution design, implementation, deployment, rollout, support, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Formal qualifications in computer science or a related engineering field.
- At least 10 years of experience as a software engineer with strong expertise in the assigned technology stack.
- Experience governing digital product architecture for individual products and product areas.
- Ability to lead individual engineers, multiple engineering teams, and engineering initiatives in app or web development.
- Extensive knowledge of software engineering principles, practices, and industry-standard toolsets.
- Deep expertise in the assigned technology domain and related platforms, products, and services.
- Experience using architecture frameworks and concepts such as TOGAF or similar.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to engineers and senior stakeholders.
- Comfort working across the full software development lifecycle from solution design through deployment and support.
- Experience with GitHub, testing, release management practices, APIs, Azure services, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Preferred experience representing technology externally and working in large-scale, global product organisations.
Benefits
- Team based in Malmö, Sweden, with the majority of work expected in the workplace.
- Internal recruitment opportunity connected to Inter IKEA organisational changes.
- Applications are requested by 18 November, with interviews potentially starting earlier.
- Recruitment accommodations are available upon request.
About IKEA
IKEA designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, home furnishings, and housewares to consumers through large-format stores and e-commerce. Founded in Sweden in 1943 and headquartered in Delft, Netherlands, the brand operates via a global franchise system run by Inter IKEA Systems B.V., and also develops smart-home products and services under Home Smart.