To be resilient and empathetic in the face of the challenge of doing open heart surgery on the IKEA business transforming our current landscape into something for the next evolution of IKEA. To enjoy building your teams with a DevOps mentality to develop new, scalable, enterprise technology, able to run our global operations 24/7. We believe you have a relentless passion and vision for meeting the customer promise. Motivating engineers to be outcome focused and innovate/learn to solve business problems. That you are passionate about our vison values - values like togetherness, simplicity and lead by example are all a natural part of your everyday working life at IKEA. As a person you have great willpower and the ability to create enthusiasm around you, to dare challenge conventions and make mistakes. That you have a minimum of three years experience as an engineering manager with a track record of building teams at pace and still creating happy and focused teams. BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field 12+ years of experience in software development, technology architecture, and/or IT service delivery To have learnt the lessons and can inspire others to why the following practices are important to move towards: Version control of every component / Deployment automation / Continuous integration / Trunk-based development / Test automation / Test data management / Shift left on security / Loosely coupled architecture / Empowered Teams / Proactive monitoring. To bring your whole self to work and have fun building a better everyday life for the many. A day in your life with us What is the amazing opportunity
We have set out to change everything (almost!) and we need to change now! We are transforming a global iconic brand which in itself is breathtaking, and within Order Management we are creating the digital equivalent of flat packages. The change is formulated in ten jobs here: https: / / www.ingka.com / what-wedo / ikea-retail / Five of the jobs are underpinned by the amazing work we will do in Fulfilment, Logistics Inventory Management.
There are some interesting challenges to take on:
Build and run the technology that underpins our global business. Across 377 stores, 40+ fulfilment centers, Click Collect solutions, Final mile delivery and services like installation in our customers homes. Create a new IKEA, by building the capability to dynamically flex fulfilment across all our network, buildings, transport and partners - responding to situations like COVID-19 pandemic in near real time to meet our customers needs and minimizing impact on the planet. Transform the current landscape into a modern technology stack which will enable us to test and learn quickly to meet our customers demands provide a highly available, resilient secure service.