The scope of the consultant services is to assist IKEA in:
The Integration Specialist enables these solutions to work together as a coherent end-to-end flow while providing technical leadership from an integration perspective. The role requires understanding Recovery & As-Is business processes alongside the technical landscape, identifying cross-product dependencies and impacts, and translating business needs into robust and scalable integration solutions.
The role also contributes to technical direction and solution design, supporting architectural decisions and guiding development towards consistent integration patterns and sound technical choices. Working closely with developers, architects, product teams and other specialists, the Integration Specialist helps ensure that technical decisions consider the overall Recovery & As-Is landscape rather than individual systems or interfaces.
Success in the role requires strong end-to-end thinking, integration expertise, technical leadership and collaboration, with the ability to balance immediate delivery needs with the long-term maintainability and evolution of the Recovery & As-Is solution landscape
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Integration Architecture & Design: Lead the end-to-end integration design across the Recovery & As-Is landscape (iRecover, D365 Commerce/POS, D365 F&O, middleware, WMS). Define cross-system patterns, API specifications and error-handling strategies to translate complex business needs into scalable solutions. Responsible for the development and approval of FDD’s and IDD’s related to Recover As-Is.
- Technical Leadership & Governance: Guide development teams toward sound, consistent technical choices, ensuring individual solutions align with the total long-term strategy rather than isolated system needs.
- Cross-Product Dependency Management: Identify, analyse, and manage technical dependencies, data flows, and impacts across boundaries and together with other product teams to guarantee an as seamless end-to-end process execution as possible.
- Data Migration & Integration Strategy: Define strategy, data mapping models, BI and ensuring data integrity across the product landscape.
- Quality & Performance Oversight: Define quality assurance for the integrations. oversee system reliability, evaluate bottleneck root causes, and govern testing criteria for overall landscape stability together with Test lead resources.
- Architecture Documentation: Create and maintain high-level system architecture diagrams, integration blueprints and technical specifications for cross-functional alignment.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Strategy Alignment: Work alongside other Product teams, Enterprise Architects and Technical Leads to align integration roadmaps with business strategies, balancing immediate delivery goals with long-term landscape maintainability.
Desired knowledge, experience, competence, skills etc:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Experience:
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in solution architecture or technical integration roles.
- Technical & Platform Knowledge: Good architectural understanding of the Azure Power Platform ecosystem and modern design/architectural patterns, with the ability to evaluate and guide implementation choices. Preferred D365 F&O experience but not mandatory.
- Quality Strategy: Good understanding of deployment strategies for complex, multi-system enterprise environments. Experience in working together with Test leads and already established Test and quality processes.
- Data & Integration Strategy: Solid experience defining data flows, mapping models, and data integration strategies.
- Domain Experience: Experience navigating complex, multi-solution enterprise landscapes. Background in Retail, Supply Chain, and/or Product circularity is a plus.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Strong problem-solving abilities, end-to-end system thinking, and attention to architectural details.
- Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to bridge business requirements and technical execution, guide engineering teams and energize a collaborative environment.
Start: ASAP
Duration: 2027-08-31 (possibility for extension)
Workload: 100%
Location: Malmö
We will present candidates on an ongoing basis, so if interested please don´t hesitate to apply!
