• Job ID: R0010493-2
• Date posted: 24/07/2025
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  At IKEA we are on a journey to transform our operating model. One way to ensure long-term success and a fantastic partner, co-worker, 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!

JOB DESCRIPTION

• We are currently establishing a product and platform-based 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, co-workers, 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 future-oriented 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

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• Min. 2 years relevant job experience

• Bachelor’s/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 buy-in
• Business change experience in a digital/data driven transformation
• Excellent English language skills (written and verbal communication)

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• 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.