Position in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN IKEA AND BE PART OF THE BIGGEST DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE WORLD?
Hej! My name is Rubén and I am privileged to lead the global engineering teams of IKEA for Business.
In IKEA for Business, we allow other companies around the world to deliver upon their dreams with our interior design solutions and products – be it a small tech start up with a handful of employees, a local restaurant that wants to expand, or a large real estate development firm that needs thousands of kitchens for their next project. The scale and diversity of IKEA for Business is mind-blowing, and we are looking for the extraordinary team that will tackle it all.
IKEA for Business is also the fastest growing area for us as a company. Already a multi-billion euro line of business for IKEA, and it is poised to grow substantially over the coming years.
This area is being driven by our team in the IKEA global digital hub in Madrid, so this is a unique opportunity for technology leaders who are based in Spain and want to be part of a once in a lifetime transformation in one of the most iconic companies worldwide.
So, this will be your dream job if:
●IKEA culture and values resonate with you
●You have the drive, passion and resilience to transform one of the most iconic brands in the world
●You are willing to collaborate with humble, supportive and absolutely committed colleagues who dream of creating a better life for the many people.
●You love to work in an international environment, with plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth
● ‘Experiment, Learn and Adapt’ are in your DNA
●You are looking for flexible work life balance. We know when people are happy, they do their best work.
WHAT DOES AN ENGINEERING MANAGER DO AT IKEA?
As an Engineering Manager you are the line manager for a team of software engineers and you are accountable for the technical delivery within our digital organization. You will have the exciting challenge to:
●Build and run the technology that underpins our global 40 Billion Euro business, operating across 377+ stores and 30 countries.
●Creating software with a greenfield approach, with a massive scale impact in one of the IKEA key areas for the coming years.
●Work in a startup alike environment, but with all the support of a global, iconic and value-driven company like IKEA.
●Build from scratch, lead, inspire and motivate a high performing team of engineers. You will help the teams drive a cloud first agenda, adhere to modern software engineering principles, utilize the proper tools, and automate everything to enable the specified business outcomes. Recruitment, performance, competence and career development of individuals will also be part of your responsibilities.
●Provide technical domain knowledge, architectural leadership and coach the teams in high class standards for software engineering and operations
●Work closely with the assigned product owners and all groups within the Digital Technology organization in order to deliver the assigned digital products and services
●Help build a digital mindset and an engineering culture that is accountability and results orientated, where Lean principles and a DevOps mindset will be in the core.
We are big believers in enabling our leaders to act with autonomy and as such you would lead on the technical decisions of how you want to build and implement your products.
The home office for this role will be Madrid, but there will be travel globally to meet some stakeholders and partners. We believe a healthy and flexible life balance is important, so together we will strive to create a work environment where you feel in control of your life balance, can be yourself, grow and excel in both your personal and professional life.
WHAT WOULD WE ASK FROM YOU?
We are looking for technology leaders who share our values and are ready to change the world and be part of an ambitious, yet exciting journey within IKEA.
The ideal candidate will excel in the following four areas:
1)Solid technical background
•You have a good balance of breadth and depth in technical knowledge. Experienced or familiar with BDD, TDD, test automation, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, code versioning, and industry standard toolsets
•You have experience creating software at global scale, preferably in cloud-based microservices architectures.
•You have knowledge of design and architecture concepts (i.e. microservices, API-first, event-driven architectures...) and the ability to apply them within the software development lifecycle
2)People skills
•You have a real passion for managing engineers and building high performing, happy, focused and empathetic teams.
•You love to inspire your engineering teams and others to build the highest standard of software that builds confidence with our customers, operations and stakeholders due to its excellence in agility and resilience.
•You like to create a one team atmosphere between all co-workers in engineering, product, data science, business development, operations etc.
•You are inclusive, humble and passionate about creating a learning organization.
3)Delivery obsession
•Early and continuous delivery of value to our customers is your obsession. Still, the software your team builds must be robust, scalable, secure and reliable.
•You are comfortable with uncertainty and with a greenfield context where everything is still to be done.
•You enjoy building your teams with a DevOps mentality to develop new, scalable, enterprise technology, able to run globally 24/7.
4)Customer Orientation
•You have passion for using technology to build products that solve real world problems
•You don’t perceive technology as an end, but as a way to transform the world, creating amazing products and experiences that impact our customers worldwide
•You have a relentless passion and vision for meeting the customer promise and will motivate engineers to be outcome focused and innovate/learn to solve challenges.
LET'S CONNECT
In this role you will report to the Product Engineering Manager of IKEA for Business domain. The role is based in Madrid, Spain.
You might have some questions about the recruitment process and we are more than happy to answer those! Feel free to connect please reach out to Veronika Grollova at veronika.grollova@ingka.com.
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously. We look forward to hearing from you!
