Enterprise Architect - Growth & Marketing

at  IKEA

ABOUT THIS WORK AREA

We set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fastmoving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace.
At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.
In our team we love puzzles and are always looking for ways to make things smarter, safer and more user-friendly. We all come from different backgrounds and together we enable efficient product development and production through innovative engineering. In this role you will report to the Chief Architect for INGKA.

As an Enterprise Architect, you are part of the Enterprise Architecture leadership team and will be part of developing the technology landscape across IKEA and be part of setting the course with strategic direction, principles and standards that enable guidance for the organization. You will have responsibility for the Growth & Marketing Digital area, covering Growth planning, Range, Sales steering, Pricing, Content management, CRM, Personalization, Membership, Rewards, Commercial activation & launches that includes Campaign management, Digital communications, Traffic generation, SEO and SEM with its architecture and people manage a team of Technology Architects.
Your personality allows you to manage a diverse set of senior stakeholders up to board level to ensure reaching both short- and long-term goals.

In this role you are:

• Responsible for defining the strategic architecture, legacy coexistence and where capabilities should be implemented to ensure end-to-end flows and avoid costs in duplicate implementations.
• Lead and develop the strategic architecture perspective on roadmap and prioritizations of the domain work and its consequences in order to reach the company’s strategic outcomes.
• Drive and develop the Enterprise Architecture practices and apply the architecture guardrails through the product and engineering teams in order to empower them at scale
• Drive, lead and resolve the big and hard problems that are common across teams in the IKEA value chain.
• Resolve architecture topics in significant landscape changes affecting the sub-domain.
• Provide the architecture perspective on roadmap and prioritizations in the area, its consequences and impact to reach the Sub-domain strategies and outcomes.
• Lead, inspire, develop and manage co-workers in order to secure a high performing team and promote growth.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data and Digital Experience leaders to drive transformative change to meet the strategic outcomes.
• Evolve the Growth planning, Martech, Retail Range, & Content architecture by being adaptable and staying connected to the industry trends.
• Drive the overall architecture view with deliberate consideration of the long-term implication of technology choices and the strategic vision for the evolution of the growth and marketing technology.
• It is preferred if you have experience in Marketing technologies in the context of Omni Channel retailing.