2 days ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive engineering direction for digital automation platforms and products.
- Act as the technical authority for software engineering, automation engineering, AI engineering, and platform development practices.
- Drive adoption of engineering standards, development frameworks, architecture principles, and secure-by-design practices.
- Lead technical design and architecture discussions for automation, AI, and agentic solutions.
- Mentor software engineers, automation engineers, and technical specialists while fostering a strong engineering culture.
- Evaluate emerging capabilities in AI, Agentic AI, Computer Vision, and Intelligent Automation.
- Partner with architects, platform engineers, and software engineering managers on future technical roadmaps.
- Lead Proofs of Concept, Proofs of Technology, and technical innovation initiatives.
- Improve engineering excellence through reusability, automation, quality practices, observability, and operational resilience.
- Champion AI-native software development and AI-assisted engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, automation engineering, or digital product development, with proven technical leadership across engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on development experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native architectures.
- Deep understanding of software engineering principles, architecture patterns, DevOps practices, quality engineering, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Extensive experience delivering digital automation solutions using RPA, workflow automation, Process Mining, Power Platform, and AI-enabled automation.
- Practical experience building, integrating, or governing AI-powered applications and services involving LLMs, RAG, AI copilots, and AI orchestration frameworks.
- Good understanding of agentic AI, autonomous workflows, multi-agent systems, tool orchestration, human-in-the-loop patterns, and governance.
- Experience driving engineering standards, technical roadmaps, architecture decisions, and best practices across distributed teams.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and modern development practices to improve developer productivity and software quality.
- Preferred experience with Computer Vision, Intelligent Document Processing, OCR, multimodal AI, Microsoft Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, AI Foundry, or equivalent AI platforms.
- Preferred experience building enterprise-grade AI and automation platforms.
- UiPath Solution Architect or Advanced Developer certification, or Microsoft AI certification, is desirable.
Benefits
- The position is located in Warsaw.
- Applications are handled in English and must be submitted by the latest 9th of October; applications by email are not accepted.
- IKEA offers opportunities for personal growth, global career development, learning new skills, and work in a fast-paced global environment.
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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.