Why we will love you
ENGINEERING MANAGER, SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL REAL ESTATE & EXPANSION, GROUP DIGITAL
At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people
Why we will love you
Digital Real Estate & Expansion engineering is recruiting for a great opportunity to be part of a huge digital transformation of our Retail Expansion / Real Estate, Sustainability and Workplace Management business processes. Everything from providing a secure & sustainable physical environment for customers & co-workers, global monitoring of energy and water consumption and effective servicing and management of our properties and physical assets. We also enable improved property investment business decision making and simplifying the development process in all our physical meeting points.
We are enabling this through a balanced combination of sourced and in-house digital solutions whilst also integrating them and finally extracting and publish quality assured data enabling analytics and insights. Our teams design, develop, integrate, and operate the digital solutions to meet the needs of the many digital and business consumers. Through your previous experience you know how to build and grow agile software engineering teams, as well as developing an engineering culture allowing continuous learning through mistakes and innovation. Recently in your career you have shifted your focus to leading, coaching, motivating, and developing teams and team members. You should know what it takes to develop, run, monitor, and support digital products or services based on a mix of on-premise and public cloud infrastructure. Experience in frontend and backend development, working with APIs, integrations, data pipelines / transformations is essential in addition to software engineering covering also operational support or monitoring.
You should also have an interest in data quality, scalability, resilience, security and keeping up with the latest advancements in DevOps. You are someone who cares passionately about “doing good business is good business” and are inspired to help create a more affordable, accessible, and sustainable future for our customers and co-workers. We believe you are someone who loves to collaborate, working together with co-workers from all walks of life. We assume that you want to part of a company where the values and culture is vibrant and practiced by all. We expect that you have several years working in an agile culture where change and continuous improvement is perfectly natural. This means you are self-driven, exemplifying entrepreneurship and prioritize investing in yourself by continuously developing and enhancing digital skills and staying at the frontier of modern tools and technologies.
Your responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager you will devise the engineering strategy along with our enterprise architecture and product team and deliver it. Bring in the knowledge and best practices that enables our existing sourced IT solutions to integrate through APIs leveraging Data & Event Mesh architecture using next generation technology stack. You are someone who cares passionately about “doing good business is good business” and are inspired to help create a more affordable, accessible, and sustainable future for our customers and co-workers. We believe you are someone who loves to collaborate, working together with co-workers from all walks of life.
We assume that you want to part of a company where the values and culture is vibrant and practiced by all. We expect that you have several years working in an agile culture where change and continuous improvement is perfectly natural. This means you are self-driven, exemplifying entrepreneurship and prioritize investing in yourself by continuously developing and enhancing digital skills and staying at the frontier of modern tools and technologies.
You will also:
• Devise the engineering strategy along with our enterprise architecture and product team and deliver it. Bring in the knowledge and best practices that enables our new and existing in-house and sourced IT solutions to integrate through APIs leveraging Data & Event Mesh architecture using next generation technology stack. • Recruit, lead and organise a multi-cultural team of software & system engineers following lean and DevOps principles to implement, evolve, support, and own software and system components to Group Digital quality standards. Must have prior experience in leading a multi-cultural team.
• Though the technologies we are using are e.g. Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we are looking for a leader who can leverage existing whilst bringing in new technologies (e.g. cloud agnostic), leverage open source and ramp up the team capability on new technologies. You must have hands on experience with GCP to start with.
Together as a Team
We’re a new team that will consisting of around 6 people. We are quite autonomous, self-organizing and self-sufficient in many ways, which means part of our daily work is to define how we get things done together. We are based in Helsingborg, Sweden, but a mix of local and remote work is not a problem.
We are passionate about our engineering culture, where fast feedback is enabled by automation, focus on minimum viable product or ‘proof of concepts’ and analysis of our engineering performance. Anyone on our team can come with ideas on things to work on. Such ideas often lead to a few people teaming up to build a first implementation and demoing it with business/digital consumers to learn if the idea is good or not. After analyzing the feedback and test results further product decisions are made. We value development speed and fast feedback a lot together with our business consumers and integrate or build the tools we need if none of the sourced ones meet our needs. We are responsible for the things we build throughout the whole lifecycle, which means operations is an important part of our work.
Questions and support? Let's connect!
The role is based in Helsingborg, Sweden and you will report to Real Estate, Product Engineering Manager For more information about the role, reach out to hiring manager Conor White at conor.white@ingka.ikea.com. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to IT Recruiter, Vefa Andersson at vefa.andersson@ingka.com We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to hearing from you! PLEASE NOTE Due to data privacy (GDPR) we can’t review any applications coming to us in other ways than through our recruitment program.
Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.
From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”
