(Senior) Data Architect, Group Digital, Ingka Group

Who you are

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. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people

We believe that working with data excites you, and you may even have a passion for the F.A.I.R principles and the Data Mesh. But you might just as well have thorough experience with data management, analytics solution architecture, or data engineering, with the ambition to move into the data architect role.

You like being creative when working with data and understand the greater value and potential you create for IKEA. You like moving between different perspectives, and you have the ability to see how all the pieces come together as a whole.

We also believe that you enjoy working individually as well as in various product teams. You take lead when needed and relevant. Moreover, you enjoy an agile approach, and that change is a natural way forward for you and us.

You like the constructive collaboration with stakeholders, data managers, technology architects and engineers to bring the data perspective.

You love working together creating the needed digital and data products and therefore you have experience with:

- Communicating effectively across organizational, business, and technical boundaries
- Guiding teams and making data architecture recommendations with business focus
- DevOps/DataOps and agile development practices, in which digital and data products evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing cross-functional teams.

Experience with data integration, data warehousing, data analytics, data management, and retail industry is considered valuable, and so is interest or experience in challenges around digital ethics and privacy compliance in a global context.

Most importantly you share and live the IKEA culture and values.

**Responsibilities**:
As part of the Data Architecture team in Group Digital you will be part of defining and implementing data principles, standards and the end-to-end Data & Information Reference Architecture. This specific role will be embedded in one of our digital domains supporting the implementation of our data capabilities and help design their digital & data products.

Your main responsibilities are to:

- Work with the business and engineering stakeholders to iteratively translate business problems and opportunities into information
- and data architecture products
- Collaborate closely with data managers, data engineers, data scientists and other roles in actively advising key stakeholders including product and platform owners on future data and technology options
- Act as main point of contact to resolve data architecture issues
- Be on top of the data in your domain, your mission is to make data F.A.I.R to achieve broad data democratization
- Contribute to the development and implementation of our data standards, guidelines, data strategy and the creation of our Data Architecture practice in general

WHAT WE OFFER

We offer you an exciting work environment, with exceptional opportunities to grow in your career. Continuous learning is important for us (we aim to spend 20% of our time on learning). You will be part of a highly collaborative community of great colleagues to learn with and from (with world-class experience across all aspects of Data Architecture). We believe in openness, togetherness and mutual support. You will work with interesting real-world problems and be empowered to identify and unlock them yourself.

We work with modern tools in an exciting multiregional and multi-cloud context with the Google Cloud Platform as the preferred platform.

You will enjoy our flexible, friendly, and fun work environment together with us, with a healthy balance between work and life.

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