Software Engineering Leader | Sales and Payment Product Area | Retail Concept Operations

About the role    As a Software Engineering Leader, you’ll play an important part in the team and bring valuable IKEA knowledge into a new setting. In the coming years, we will continue to modernise some of our most critical enterprise platforms to keep pace with a fast-changing retail landscape. As we continue to evolve, your primary focus will be bringing technical depth, architectural clarity and hands-on craftsmanship to a product area that matters across all of IKEA.    You will lead engineering efforts across the full product lifecycle, from early solution design and architecture discussions to implementation, deployment, rollout, and continuous improvement. Together with product managers, designers, and engineers, you will drive technical excellence and ensure that our tools continue to deliver business value at scale.   This is a senior level (4) software engineering role, assigned to a technology domain or digital product area. Unlike a people manager, your primary accountability is technical: you govern architecture design for the product area, align engineering work across teams, own the technical roadmap, and act as the engineering conscience of the area. You will collaborate closely with the Technology Leader, Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise Architects, and Product Software Engineers — and act as a senior representative of technology both internally within IKEA and externally in the market. The impact of our work continues to resonate in homes and hearts across the world.    On a typical working day, you will:    Align engineering work across teams, identifying synergies and engineering best practices that can be reused across the product area.   Own tactical and operational engineering initiatives at product area level to improve the technical effectiveness of engineering work.   Collaborate with the Technology Leader, Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise Architects, and Product Software Engineers to ensure overall solutioning and implementation fits together across platform and products.   Design and refactor products within the product domain, aligning to enterprise guidelines to help modularise, scale, and integrate systems — meeting resiliency, performance, reusability, and architecture goals.   Provide business and technology landscape understanding to guide teams and enable efficient information flows across the product area.   Drive adoption of design patterns and cross-cutting platform usage to enable efficiency and avoid unnecessary duplication.   Contribute to and lead technology evolution and architecture roadmaps at product area level to improve system performance and reliability.   Decide and communicate engineering priorities, co-create and own the technical roadmap that increases delivery velocity and unlocks new engineering capabilities.   Act as an ambassador for engineering and security best practices across the digital product area and the broader organisation.   Own and deliver tech onboarding for new engineers across the product area, and evaluate existing engineering practices to recommend improvements.     What we’d like you to bring to the table   The role as a Software Engineering Leader in this team requires you to:   Hold formal qualifications in computer science or a related engineering field.   Bring at least 10 years of experience as a software engineer, with strong expertise in the assigned tech stack.   Govern digital product architecture, both for individual products and across a product area.   Be a good leader to both individual engineers as well as multiple engineering teams.   Demonstrate extensive knowledge of software engineering principles, practices, and industry-standard toolsets.   Apply deep expertise in the assigned technology domain and related platforms, products, and services.   Utilise architecture frameworks and concepts such as TOGAF or similar.   Have the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to a wide range of audiences, from engineers to senior stakeholders.   Lead development teams and engineering initiatives within App or web development   Be comfortable working across the full software development lifecycle, from solution design through deployment and support.   Utilise Github, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and release management practices.   Design and implement integrations using APIs, Azure services, and enterprise integration patterns.   It’s a plus if you also:   Represent technology externally in the market or at industry forums.   Have experience working effectively in large-scale, global product organisations.    We welcome your application     This role is published as part of an internal recruitment process connected to our organisational changes. It offers an opportunity for co-workers whose experience and competence may be relevant.   We look forward to receiving your application by the 18th of November at the latest. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as we might start interviewing early for certain roles. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, or if you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, feel free to contact the Recruiter Calvin Blyth ( calvin.blyth2@inter.ikea.com )  We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. Once competence requirements are met, we will first consider impacted co-workers employed in Inter IKEA Systems Service AB, Inter IKEA Technology Services AB and Inter IKEA Systems BV and secondly impacted co-workers at Inter IKEA Group.