Solution Architect

Company Description

Hej Digital Product Area Architect – Supply Chain Planning Development Area,

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Job Description

As a Digital Product Area Architect you are employed as a Solution Architect with a work assignment for the Supply Chain Planning Development Digital Product Area, you play a key role in shaping, maintaining and evolving the architectural direction for the Supply Chain Planning Development Digital Product Area, contributing to the overall Architecture Vision and Capability‑based Architecture Roadmap.

You are accountable for the Architecture Blueprints across Process, People, Data and Technology within Supply Chain Planning Development Area, ensuring that architectural direction supports the product area’s value proposition and enables IKEA to reach its business objectives in a simple, cost‑efficient and future‑proof way.

Through close collaboration with the Supply Chain Planning Development Digital Product Area leadership, the Capability Area Architect, and product, platform and engineering teams, you ensure architecture is both strategic and executable. You balance long‑term architectural intent with day‑to‑day delivery needs, navigating trade‑offs, dependencies and ambiguity in an agile, product‑oriented context.

In this role, you lead through influence rather than formal authority. There is no predefined playbook; success depends on your ability to take ownership, make informed decisions, and move work forward even when not all answers are available.

You report to the Competence Hub Development Manager, and work in close collaboration with the Capability Area Architect, Enterprise Architects and architecture peers across IKEA.

On a typical day, you will:

• Give architectural input to the Supply Chain Planning Development Digital Product Area value proposition, based on business needs, IKEA strategies and technology trends, leveraging your solid understanding of Supply Chain Planning processes and value drivers
• Define, maintain and continuously evolve Architecture Blueprints for Supply Chain Planning Development across Process, People, Data and Technology
• Translate architectural vision into planning input and an architecture runway, supporting integrated planning for the Supply Chain Planning Development product area
• Identify and manage dependencies between architecture, product roadmaps, platforms and other digital product areas
• Support execution of the roadmap by guiding architectural design decisions and resolving architectural dilemmas, ensuring a clear focus on business value also in technical discussions and trade-off decisions
• Act as an architecture sparring partner to product, platform, solution and enterprise architects within Supply Chain Planning Development Area, confidently navigating and bridging both business and technology perspectives
• Be a wing‑person on architectural and technical topics for the Digital Product Area leadership
• Drive local architectural decision‑making and act as guardian of the Supply Chain Planning Development Area Architecture Blueprints in relevant forums
• Ensure the application and architecture landscape for Supply Chain Planning Development Area is documented in the common repository according to overall guidelines
• Contribute to alignment across digital product areas to ensure a holistic and coherent IKEA architecture

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring

• Solid experience in enterprise architecture or architect in complex digital landscapes
• Strong skills in architecture roadmaps, dependency management and capability‑based planning
• Ability to connect business strategy, product goals and technology architecture
• Experience working in agile, product‑driven organisations
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence without formal authority
• Comfort working in a matrix organisation with multiple stakeholders and perspectives
• Curiosity, pragmatism and a strong drive for continuous improvement
• Ability to speak both business and technology languages, ensuring a clear focus on business value also in technical dialogues and decision-making
• Solid Supply Chain Planning knowledge and experience, with a strong understanding of planning processes, challenges and value drivers in a complex, global environment

Be yourself, a Digital Product Area Architect – Supply Chain Planning Development Area, and more

Inter IKEA Group connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and ensures alignment of the overall IKEA strategic direction.

Additional information

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organizational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA Core Business Supply provided competence requirements are met for the role.

We look forward to receiving your application in English. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. This position can be based in Älmhult, Sweden or Pratteln, Switzerland. We regret that we are unable to handle applications made by e-mail. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 31 May. 2026.

For more information about the position, please contact Hiring Manager Competence Hub Development Manager Stephanie Soong at sukmei.soong@inter.ikea.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at katie.pettersson2@inter.ikea.com.

At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend majority of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant.