Engineering Manager

What you need to know

At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Working at IKEA is a unique opportunity to contribute to our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people.

You are invited to join an exciting area of Business Strategy & Planning. Here we help shape IKEA's future by providing meaningful insights to business stakeholders in various organizations, enabling them to take fact-based, data-driven decisions and support IKEA’s journey to become a true omnichannel retailer. We are looking for you to lead the Engineering discipline in our global and cross-functional team.

Why we will love you

Through your previous experience, you know how to build and grow Agile Engineering teams, as well as develop an engineering culture allowing continuous learning through mistakes and innovation. You should bring solid experience with Engineering and Cloud Native development best practices, Google Cloud Platform, SRE/DevOps, Cloud Architecture and business requirements gathering experience. You care about Security, Automation, Scalability, Resilience, and Data Quality and how all of these impact the product life cycle.

You should also have an interest in keeping up with the latest advancements in Cloud technology, DevOps and Agile ways of working.

We expect you to have following knowledge / experience:

- Minimum 5 years of global team leadership and 1:1 coaching of Engineers in high-performing, multi-disciplined and Agile teams.
- Education in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Engineering equivalent.
- Experience setting and leading the strategic direction for an Engineering function.
- Strong cross-organizational stakeholder management experience.
- Extensive knowledge of the full lifecycle development and operational aspects of Web Applications and Data Products on Google Cloud Platform. • Demonstrated experience managing Cloud Infrastructure and Application Security aspects of significant business products and services.
- Familiarity with Python, SQL and NoSQL DBs.
- Good knowledge of the IKEA Concept, brand identity and

IKEA Culture & values.

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would work without us.

Questions and support? Let's connect

This is global role based in Sweden and you will report to the Product Engineering Manager (Group Digital).

We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to your application