Technical Lead

2 weeks ago


Stockholm, Sweden H&M Group Full time

Company Description

Strategy, Innovation and Business Development is a newly built function representing a unified strategic muscle around our core business internally, with a 'delivery engine' securing execution of the strategy, and Innovation working across the horizons, with direct impact to advance the core business. Innovation plays a key role in developing the future for fashion, through impact-orientated innovation, supported by technology.

Our mission is to support and accelerate innovation and we are in the exciting process of building a new core team with a large collaborative network. We are now looking for a Technical Lead to be a key player in understanding how to leverage the latest advances in technology and what is emerging, to drive impact and capture business value. This is the opportunity to be part of changing the fashion business globally 

Job Description

What you will do as Technical Lead  

At H&M we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. Here you can be yourself and develop. You’ll be part of one of the most important areas at H&M Group to achieve our growth goals with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference.

We offer you the freedom and opportunity to get creative, to decide how we can exploit the latest technologies and tools to achieve our strategic priorities, in a creative environment, with a laser focus on potential to scale and create commercial value. This is not innovation theatre.

This role holder will: 

Work with professional software engineering practices & best practices and liaise with H&M business Tech teams to go from ideation to exploration and on to actual development of trials, experiments, PoC’s or prototypes within digital ecosystems. As examples, this could include initiatives working on the future of the physical and digital retail experience 

Oversee the conception and development of software solutions relating to the unit's work, typically tests, experiments, or prototype builds 

Use their creative, innovators mindset to be able to translate strategic imperatives into inventive yet scalable solution design

Collaborate closely with business design and other teams, share best practice and evangelize innovation at H&M Group both internally and externally. They will work not solely as an engineer who waits for clear requirements, but fully contributing to the innovation funnel at all stages, ideation, defining propositions, and how success will be measured 

Use your knowledge of the required languages and frameworks to lead the creation of everything from proof of concepts to complete systems 

Share knowledge within the team and the wider engineering community

Provide coaching and support for the Software engineers 

Qualifications

Your Mindset & Skills  
Mindset is so important in this role. Innovation calls for creative thinkers, but this small team will need someone happy to shift from applying their critical thinking to rolling up their sleeves to get the job done. Our projects are often exploratory and will be shaped along the way, by the team. Innovation will naturally mean some failures, but this team will drive to land some stellar successes that meet our business ambition. We want people who are experienced in working with and influencing at all levels in an organization. 

From a skills perspective we need: 

At least 8 years of experience as Software Engineer with back and front-end experience and a solid understanding of retail tech stacks 

Proven ability to translate the complexity and ambiguity of innovative ideas into something logical and workable

Proven ability to build physical and digital prototypes 

Understanding of product development and design thinking principles and practices 

Fluent in English (written and spoken) 

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Hands-on experience of DevOps or equivalent for source code control

Experience with Java, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript & NodeJS, HTML & CSS, or Python 

Good knowledge of the full development stack, including databases & APIs 

Experience using SQL & NoSQL Databases 

Strong experience with cloud platforms (we are on GCP)

Experience with technologies including Machine Learning/AI, computer vision, electronics, would be very beneficial

Additional Information

Do you think we are a match? We hope so H&M is a people centric employer who offers flexibility. 

You are joining a unique , a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.

H&M Group is a value-driven company that wants to lead the way to a more inclusive environment. We are committed to create an inclusive & diverse workplace with a culture that is dynamic and innovative.
We welcome your application regardless of who you are, where you’re from and what you like.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome all applicants to strengthen our innovative and diverse culture. Learn more about our I&D work


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