Enterprise Architect
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Job Description
In IKEA we are on a journey to transform our operating model. One way to ensure longterm success and a fantastic partner coworker and customer experience is to strengthen our Data & Digital Product Management capabilities. We are establishing data & digital product teams across Inter IKEA bringing business processes people data and technology together. A journey that needs passionate people who embrace change dare to question and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you come and join us. Together we can do great things!
About the area
Operations Management works together with operations teams across Inter IKEA to lead and develop the overall IKEA operating model and to enable strategic movements towards IKEA goals. It includes teams for business insights capability and process development strategy and roadmap data and product and technology and platforms.
Job Description
We are currently establishing a product and platformbased organisation where product areas will enable development of the needed and prioritised capabilities across Inter IKEA. Our aim is to secure a strong and clear connection between business strategies and the goals for each product team. A new framework is being developed to define how we lead in the process and capability dimensions and how this will connect to the data product digital product and platform management. Our aim is to create a clear and simple framework for Inter IKEA that will enable product teams to deliver value to our customers coworkers and partners in an efficient and scalable way connecting functions and improving collaboration across the IKEA value chain.
In the work it is expected to understand the current architecture define a futureoriented target architecture and a logical sequence of activities on how to reach the target state in a stepwise approach. For this role specifically we are looking for an enterprise architect focused on AI. You are a natural leader a team player and a person that actively collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to get progress and reach concrete business results.
More specifically in this role you will be accountable for:
- Shaping ideas in close collaboration with relevant internal and external stakeholders into concrete robust and appropriate Process People. Data and Technology architectures and transition roadmap.
- Describe the current and future state of intended business change as well as the transition to reach the future state ensuring aligned and consistent business process and IT development across IKEA value chain.
- Secure that the transition roadmap reflects the level of uncertainty of the future state. Balance the transformations of foundational building blocks with continued business value delivery.
- Communicate and baseline the architectures and transition roadmaps with relevant business and IT stakeholders within and across organization(s) and seek understanding and agreement to ensure aligned and consistent business process and IT development across IKEA value chain.
- Collaborate closely with business and IT stakeholders to improve architecture with learnings from the implementation.
- Bringing the AI initiatives together to define a common roadmap aligned priorities and governance together with teams across inter IKEA. This starts with data not technology.
About You
You will be an experienced and dynamic Enterprise Architect with a focus on Data and Product domains. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in digital and data products data as a product data management possessing handson experience as a product owner architect or developer. This role requires excellent communication and collaboration skills the ability to lead crossfunctionally and a strong understanding of data and analytics frameworks.
With the focus on Data and Product Architecture and coresponsibility for the development and delivery of:
- D&P architecture principles
- D&P strategy
- Target architecture of the data landscape/products
- Data and business capabilities
- Roadmap
- Reusable patterns
- Approved exceptions
- Support a culture of datadriven decision making across IKEA organisations.
- Work closely together with data scientists data engineers architects analysts peers and other relevant roles across IKEA as well as in your team.
- Provide leadership within the data landscape fostering a culture of support and collaboration across the organisation
- Drive continuous improvement collaboration and knowledge sharing of the data landscape and its value.
- Collaborate and communicate with other parts of the organisation to understand needs of stakeholders and advise viable solutions.
- Experience in enterprise architecture data architecture or solution architecture.
- Experience in AI.
- Architecture modelling expertise and a solid understanding of the underlying business capabilities processes applications data and technology.
- Indepth knowledge of all angles of data like data management data governance analytics modelling.
- Technology knowledge of data platforms data integration/sharing and data management and governance tools.
- Act as the Translator between different subject matter experts to move with a common understanding in the chosen direction.
- Translate concepts in concrete action plans.
Qualifications
Min. 2 years relevant job experience
- Bachelors/University level in computer science information technology engineering or another STEM disciple
- TOGAF certification is a plus
- Experience in agile practices and ways of working
- Analytical skills and eye for detail
- Planning and organisational skills
- Effective communicator able to present content and gain buyin
- Business change experience in a digital/data driven transformation
- Excellent English language skills (written and verbal communication)
Additional Information :
This role is fulltime (40 hours per week) and based in Delft Netherlands or Malmo Sweden. This role sits in the Operations Management Data and Product and reports to the Architecture Manager within Data & Product. If you have questions about the recruitment process please connect with Jamila via
Interested Please send us your CV in English by January 3rd 2025.
Please note that due to the upcoming holiday season in December our recruitment process may take a bit longer than usual. We will do our best to keep all candidates updated on their status before any breaks. Thank you for your patience during this time!
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
