DevOps Lead |Data & Product|Enabling Functions

Inter IKEA Group is organized in three core businesses - Range, Supply and Retail Concept - and five enabling functions. Together we contribute to the success of IKEA and share responsibility for the franchise offer. 

The enabling functions lead key common activities in networks across Inter IKEA Group, as well as cover specific needs for the core businesses. The five Enabling functions are Operations Management, Business Performance & Support, Communication, Sustainability and People & Culture.  

Operations Management leads and holds together the development and maintenance of a common foundation for how we work together across the value chain, our operating model. We enable strategic movements towards the IKEA goals through the strategic landscape and work closely with all parts of the value chain to achieve them. It includes teams for business insights, capability and process development, strategy and roadmap, data and product, and technology. 

IKEA Insights is a global team and has the assignment to contribute to IKEA people, making well-founded decisions based on actionable and timely insight. This means creating Insight solutions fuelled by data and tailored to different business needs. These solutions are currently divided into Customer Experience Insight, Strategy & Market Insight, and Brand & Range Insight. Each of these three areas develops and operates Insight products used by IKEA people across our value chain.   

Are you someone who likes to do things differently and wants to be part of a force for positive change for people and the environment?  
  
We’re looking for a curious DevOps Lead to join our journey in creating solutions for a better tomorrow. You’ll be part of the product focused Insights Data & Technology Team that contributes to Insight products that help shape IKEA’s experiences, strategy and plans. These products cover: 

How People Live  
Insights Platform 
Brand and Range Performance 
Customer Experience 
Strategic Market Insight  
Competitor Insight  

As the DevOps Lead, you will leave your mark in many ways!  The DevOps Lead is a critical role within the digital transformation that IKEA is currently undergoing, so there is no more exciting time to join us than now. As a hands-on DevOps Lead you will:  

• Introduce and ensure correct tooling and process in our build pipelines. 
• Optimize our time to delivery for requested changes in our digital products and systems 
• Remove tooling barriers and complexity in order to maximize efficiency in our software development 
• Develop and maintain our build pipelines 
• Coach and develop our digital product teams in DevOps practice 
• Work close with our product teams, making sure our systems and solutions are testable and easy to deploy 
• Work towards a digital landscape where our systems and solutions are flexible and enabled for a/b testing and continuous deploy and delivery 
• Ensure that the digital product teams have the tools and processes in order to monitor our production environments. 
• Ensure reusability of product components and contribute to relevant tech communities across IKEA. 
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.  
• Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build and deploy Azure / AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modelling and advanced analytics. 

• If you want to be part of a curious, creative environment that’s open to taking risks, this may be your new home. 
• As DevOps Lead, you will have solid software engineering skills across full stack development, with a track record of developing, maintaining and operating digital (analytics) products. Experience around data processing, integration, modelling and visualization will be highly regarded.  
• You’ll bring a minimum of 3+ years of experience in a similar role as well as a demonstrated breadth of knowledge across digital technology, digital infrastructure, IT services and product operations.  
• You will apply your expertise in a Microservices and DevOps-focused environment, leveraging tools like GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS. You will support the development and deployment of business products using cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as MS Azure and Terraform. Experience with agile methodologies and cloud-native solutions is highly valued.

This position is full-time (32-40 hours per week) and is located in Delft (NL) and Malmo Sweden. Some travel may be required and in this role and you will be reporting to the Insights Data & Technology Manager. 

Please send your application (CV) in English to us by 14th May 2025.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. 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. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs. At IKEA, we’re all on the same project.  
  
If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.  For questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected].