Solution Architect Intralogistics Development – Supply Chain Development in Dortmund bei IKEA

Job ID: REF17238C

Date posted: 31/01/2024

You see things a little differently. So do we. We offer positions that will challenge your skills and let you grow. We put togetherness at the heart of everything we do. Come see things a little differently with us. IKEA is one of the world's leading home furnishing companies. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. IKEA Core Business Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost. Supply Chain Development (SCD) is one of the business units in Core Business Supply and we are on an exciting journey! By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development and innovation agenda into one organization, embedding management and development of processes and digital solutions into the business, we will meet the future with the right competences and business capabilities. By this we will also create the preconditions to a world class supply chain that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever changing customer needs. Within the SCD Area Intralogistics Development organisation we are responsible to break it down and to establish, lead, support and develop logistics solutions for the various IKEA units that have a logistical and fulfilment component.

As part of the SCD Area Intralogistics Development organisation’s assignment we connect internal IT specialists and external Service Partners to develop, operate and maintain need oriented, innovative IT solutions, kept up to date – both from technical and functional perspective. Furthermore, we globally support a huge number of Supply Chain Projects to make IKEA available for the many.

As a Solution Architect for Intralogistics Digital Services (IDS) you

• are responsible to make sure the planned solution, which is in the build-up phase, is aligned with all connected and dependent solutions and meets the overall IKEA IT architecture principles, relevant policies, rules and standards.
• lift the existing digital solution portfolio of warehouse steering to a new, state-of-the art, micro service architecture based cloud solution, offered as a SaaS solution to IKEA logistic units.
• shape ideas – in close collaboration with relevant internal and external stakeholders – into concrete, robust and appropriate solution architectures (high level design) and transition roadmaps (for implementation).
• secure that the solution architecture reflects customer and co-worker experience, time to market, sharing and collaboration, functional, technical, infrastructure, operational, security, financial, social and environmental considerations.
• actively contribute to the documentation of and resolution of conflicting requirements.
• closely collaborate with relevant internal and external stakeholders to improve solution architecture with learnings from the implementations and industry practices.
• proactively identify and advise on opportunities to deliver better business result (e.g. related to technology trends and players, roadmaps, customer value, cost, benefits, impact, risks, dependencies).
• participate in cross area design board to secure holistic architecture decisions.
• suggest changes when compliance hinders business value.
• lead solution architecture activities within the assigned area e.g. the creation, revision and implementation of vision and goals, standards and reference solution architectures (reusable for the enterprise), handling of deviations and exceptions, ensuring architecture requirements for life cycle management of products and services, perform design reviews, provide guidance for service improvements and service transition.
• support stakeholders and initiatives with solution and technical expertise.
• represent IKEAs interests towards external partners.

You have a strong interest in supply chain and intralogistics as well as in technology, digitalization, and automation. You have a passion for planning and leading in a global assignment and to drive and develop the business and yourself to deliver excellent results. Moreover, you have a desire to collaborate and interact with various stakeholders.

You are a match for IKEA and this role when you:

• have an IT background and already worked with software development, design and/or architecture, ideally in the area