- In collaboration with stakeholders, bring ideas or business needs into business value through solutions.
- Understand the digital product leaders overall application portfolio, business priorities, and success measures to design robust architectures and solutions.
- Proactively identify and advise on opportunities to deliver better business result (e.g. related to technology trends and players, roadmaps, customer value, cost, benefits, impact, risks, dependencies).
- Secure, develop and review high-level design to support running business and provide guidance towards service improvements and service transition.
- Collaborate with other Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects ensuring that the product/platform adheres to the Technology Architecture.
- Communicate the solution architectures and transition roadmaps to relevant internal and external stakeholders within and across organization(s).
- Govern and seek understanding, agreement to ensure aligned and consistent solution implementations across IKEA.
- Support and be part of projects, initiatives and take responsibility for securing IKEAs architecture vision and goals.
- In a close dialog with stakeholders create and shape business and IT-related ideas into current state, future state, and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of solutions. Qualification
- Working experience on EDI/B2B technology & EDI Supplier onboarding.
- A solid programming and development background and understand the Software development processes and of solution architecture concepts.
- Working experience on Web technology, Cloud platform and SaaS solutions.
- Knowledge of data integration approaches like ODI, Kafka, MFT and API.
- Practical experience working in Agile and DevOps.
- A passion about technology; trends & constantly keep you updated in how new technology can be utilized to bring value in a modern enterprise system landscape.
- Good understanding about system integrations and can discuss technical interfaces on the needed detail level.
- Excellent analytical skills and apply a systematic approach to think through end-to-end solution architecture, encompassing all necessary solution components.
- Strong stakeholders management skills.
- Experience from global implementation projects or larger solutions/platforms.
- Working experience on Supplier collaboration and/or supplier relationship management products or software would be an advantage.
Solution Architect - Älmhult, Sverige - Ikea
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Job description
We are now looking for a highly motivated Solution Architect with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our Solution Architecture team, within Procurement Development area. You will be part of digital product team(s). This is a unique chance to be in the lead as we move towards a new foundation that will help us today and in the future. You will work closely with our digital product leaders, business analyst and team in your everyday work, and you will be a part of exciting initiatives by designing cost-efficient and reliable digital products keeping business priorities in the center.
The assignment as Solution Architect:
Are you someone who loves to provide simple solution to complex problems? Can you decode technical architectural diagram in a way that everyone in our team understand what, how and why? Do you like to share knowledge, learn every day and take pride in contributing to the team's success?
Do you want to play a key role in securing our products meet our architectural guidelines, fulfil business needs and are available when our user needs support Do you have an ability to influence and interact with strong stakeholders?
We believe that you have: