Solution Architect – Solution Team Pricing

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About the job

Solution Architect – Solution TeamPricing, “Convert visitors to happy customers”, Business Solutions, Retail and Customer Fulfilment, IKEA Group, Helsingborg/Sweden

You see things a little differently. So do we. Do you love the idea of working with IT and business in a home furnishing company, creating a better everyday life for the many people? Come see things a little differently with us.

About you
We are looking for a Solution Architect to join us inTeam Pricing. As a person you have strong analytical skills - being able to structure information and derive conclusions and consequences out of them. You show openness, willpower, drive and are challenged of working in a fast pace environment. You are a team player with a business mind and you know the importance of building cross functional relationships with both internal partners and vendors.

We believe that you are motivated by enabling business opportunities through IT Solutions and are passionate about people and have a strong belief in individuals' potential. You would naturally reflect what IKEA stands for and the IKEA values, by way of leading business through people. To be successful in this role you need to, we see that you have the following experience and knowledge to succeed:
·  In depth knowledge within the assigned technical or business area
·  Good knowledge about the significant functional and non-functional requirements for the area
·  Experience from implementation/realization of IT products and services (incl. project management and product and service life cycle management)
·  Good knowledge about the role of architecture and being able to identify areas for architecture focus in a project/line tasks
·  Good knowledge of architecture & solution frameworks and the usage of architecture methods and modelling techniques
·  For standard system, good knowledge about the standard functionality and our own implementation
·  Good knowledge about system integration
·  Good communication skills in written/spoken English About the job
IKEA is on an exciting growth journey becoming more accessible to the many people. We are investing heavily to develop IKEA into the future. This means for example delivering one of the world's biggest multichannel programs. It also means developing a number of solutions to meet the needs of our customer and co-workers today and tomorrow.

IKEA Business Solutions Retail & Customer fulfilment take responsibility for all business solutions connected to the retail and expansion organisation. In close cooperation with our retailers, currently located in 28 markets worldwide, we develop new solutions and keep existing ones relevant and running. Our aim is to generate happy customers and happy co-workers, and by that contribute to our growth. Within our organisation we gather competences in solution management, project management, service management and architecture.

About the assignment
As a Solution Architect, you will have the opportunity to work in a global and diverse environment designing solutions that support domain/project architecture, business requirements and take IKEA to the target landscape. You will be part of an agile team andbe responsible for securing the “Area architecture vision” and goals in the solution architecture and the system development process and perform solution, system and infrastructure design reviews to support running business, provide guidance towards service improvements and service transition. The assignment include, but is not limited to:
·  Be responsible for the Solution High level design in the context of one or more portfolio investments or sub architecture areas.
·  Be responsible for the creation of the High level design of the implementation of a business transformation with an IT component.
·  Collaborate with stakeholders to capture and document the requirements to create and shape ideas into current state, future state and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of business solutions (including requirements towards Configuration management and Service validation & Test)
·  Lead solution activities within the domain, establish solution/infrastructure design in accordance to the architecture and provide technology advice.
·  Provide expertise for roadmaps, pre-studies and design workshops within project/programmes.
·  Steer the project to follow decided architecture standards and ensure fulfilment of the functional and non-functional requirements in the solution.
·  Govern that the design of the systems/integration/infrastructure conforms to the solution architecture and is efficient, meet business requirements and based on a holistic architecture.
Practicalities
This is a permanent full-time assignment, based inHelsingborg. You will be reporting to the Solution Team Leader,Maria Henriksson.

If you have job specific questions, please contactClaudia Kuehn at If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment Co-ordinator, Luka Jovovic at .

Please send your application in English, at latest on November the 24thand note that we do not accept applications by email.

Welcome with your application!

The IKEA Group is responsible for global support and business development of the IKEA Retail organisation. It is our responsibility to lead the development of all channels and media, to support the development in our retail markets as well as to lead the positioning of total IKEA. These directions aligned to each other will contribute to fulfil our main objectives, to be the leader of life at home, gain long term profitability and growth.

Job ID

302597BR

Removal Date

24/11/2017