{"data":{"id":230775,"slug":"platform-manager-private-cloud-data-centre-technology-platform","type":"job","title":"Platform Manager (Private Cloud & Data Centre) | Technology & Platform","description":"Company Description\n\n\nHey Platform Manager! Ready to help shape the future with smart, innovative solutions?\nAt IKEA, you can feel at home while making a difference for millions. We're a place where everyone is welcome, encouraged to explore new tech, try new things, and grow from mistakes. As our Platform Manager, you'll have the chance to stretch your skills, experiment and work in new ways.\nWe are transforming the Technology and Platform organisation to build a modern and scalable technology foundation for Inter IKEA. To make this shift possible, we need an organisation that is fully aligned with our Operating Model: one that works with a strong product- and platform-thinking mindset and is ready to take full accountability from strategy to operations.\nJob Description\n\n\nWe're looking for a Platform Manager who wants to solve meaningful, real-world challenges that help make life at home better for the many. Join us on our journey as we strengthen and evolve our technology platforms and digital services to enable safe, reliable, and sustainable experiences across IKEA.\nAs Platform Manager for Private Cloud & Data Center, you lead the team responsible for a core part of IKEA's digital foundation. You don't just manage infrastructure; you lead the evolution of our data centers into a modern, Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) model. You take full end-to-end accountability for the vision, strategy, and roadmap of our private cloud, ensuring it acts as a high-performing and seamless \"as-a-service\" enabler for the entire organization.\nA big part of the role is leading the full lifecycle of the platforms you own. This includes making technology decisions, managing financial governance, and driving continuous improvement. You will lead modernisation initiatives across our private cloud and data center landscape. Including cloud-native approaches and integrated solutions that strengthen scalability and resilience. Staying close to market trends keeps your strategy future-ready and relevant.\nCollaboration is essential. You will work closely across technology and platform networks, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet real business needs. Bringing people together around shared roadmaps, common tools and aligned ways of working is key. You will also manage supplier relationships, ensuring contracts, governance and delivery follow IKEA's ways of working, while coordinating dependencies across units to build consistency and understanding of our platform landscape.\nAs a leader, you will grow high-performing teams and nurture an innovative, learning-oriented mindset. Competence development, succession planning, and strong technical stewardship are central to the role. You will foster good practices in DevOps and automation and support an excellent developer experience so teams can deliver faster and with greater confidence. Through your leadership, our private cloud and data center platforms will remain reliable, modern, and ready for the many people we serve.\nQualifications\n\n\nTo be successful in this role, the following knowledge, skills and experiences would be valuable:\nKnowledge of DevOps, automation, and software engineering at scale\nExperience with Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Hybrid-cloud burst architectures\nExperience working with agile frameworks, scaled delivery models and IT service operations, with the ability to use metrics and OKRs to track value and drive continuous improvement.\nAbility to lead and develop high-performing technical teams, coaching talent and driving organisational change across mixed sourcing models.\nExperience with budget ownership and cost management within a defined domain or organisational area.\nDeep knowledge of technology trends, emerging solutions and best practices for platform lifecycle management, modernisation, and portfolio governance.\nAbility to apply security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles, taking ownership for risk prevention and remediation.\nAwareness of regulatory developments, compliance requirements, and digital risk management in platform delivery.\nStrong problem-solving and decision-making skills, combining analytical thinking with hands-on operational experience to manage and optimise complex technology landscapes.\n\nAbove all, to thrive at IKEA, you should lead with our values and enjoy working in a culture built on togetherness, simplicity, cost-consciousness, and a drive to always find better ways.\nAdditional Information\n\n\nAt IKEA, we think and work differently. We challenge old patterns and create new solutions, whether that's a music-playing lamp or plant-based food that's better for the planet. Our vision is simple: to create a better everyday life for the many people.\nIn Technology and Platform, we support the whole organisation by providing reliable technology and digital platforms that are easy to use and built for the future. By working closely with others across IKEA, we turn technology into real value and support ongoing transformation.\nThis is a full-time position located in Malm\u00f6. The role reports into the Platform Area Manager \u2013 Core Infra and Compute Platforms and belongs to the Technology and Platform area within Operations Management. It is an enabling function with the core assignment to lead, develop, and maintain the common foundation for how Inter IKEA works across the value chain. If you would like to know more about the role, please connect with hiring manager Susanne Bengtsson (susanne.bengtsson@inter.ikea.com), or if you have questions about the recruitment process, please connect with recruiter Calvin Blyth (calvin.blyth2@inter.ikea.com)\nOpen to Everyone\nWe focus on your competence, not your other circumstances. We are open to adapting the role or workplace to suit your needs.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Platform Manager (Private Cloud & Data Centre) | Technology & Platform","description_original":"Company Description\n\n\nHej Platform Manager! Ready to help shape the future with smart, innovative solutions?   \nAt IKEA, you can feel at home while making a difference for millions. We\u2019re a place where everyone is welcome, encouraged to explore new tech, try new things, and grow from mistakes. As our Platform Manager, you\u2019ll have the chance to stretch your skills, experiment and work in new ways.  \nWe are transforming the Technology and Platform organisation to build a modern and scalable technology foundation for Inter IKEA. To make this shift possible, we need an organisation that is fully aligned with our Operating Model: one that works with a strong product\u2011 and platform\u2011thinking mindset and is ready to take full accountability from strategy to operations. \nJob Description\n\n\nWe\u2019re looking for a Platform Manager who wants to solve meaningful, real\u2011world challenges that help make life at home better for the many. Join us on our journey as we strengthen and evolve our technology platforms and digital services to enable safe, reliable, and sustainable experiences across IKEA.  \nAs Platform Manager for Private Cloud & Data Center, you lead the team responsible for a core part of IKEA\u2019s digital foundation. You don't just manage infrastructure; you lead the evolution of our data centers into a modern, Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) model. You take full end-to-end accountability for the vision, strategy, and roadmap of our private cloud, ensuring it acts as a high-performing and seamless \"as-a-service\" enabler for the entire organization.  \nA big part of the role is leading the full lifecycle of the platforms you own. This includes making technology decisions, managing financial governance, and driving continuous improvement. You will lead modernisation initiatives across our private cloud and data center landscape. Including cloud\u2011native approaches and integrated solutions that strengthen scalability and resilience. Staying close to market trends keeps your strategy future\u2011ready and relevant.  \nCollaboration is essential. You will work closely across technology and platform networks, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet real business needs. Bringing people together around shared roadmaps, common tools and aligned ways of working is key. You will also manage supplier relationships, ensuring contracts, governance and delivery follow IKEA\u2019s ways of working, while coordinating dependencies across units to build consistency and understanding of our platform landscape.  \nAs a leader, you will grow high\u2011performing teams and nurture an innovative, learning\u2011oriented mindset. Competence development, succession planning, and strong technical stewardship are central to the role. You will foster good practices in DevOps and automation and support an excellent developer experience so teams can deliver faster and with greater confidence. Through your leadership, our private cloud and data center platforms will remain reliable, modern, and ready for the many people we serve.  \nQualifications\n\n\nTo be successful in this role, the following knowledge, skills and experiences would be valuable:  \nKnowledge of DevOps, automation, and software engineering at scale  \nExperience with Software\u2011Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Hybrid\u2011cloud burst architectures  \nExperience working with agile frameworks, scaled delivery models and IT service operations, with the ability to use metrics and OKRs to track value and drive continuous improvement.  \nAbility to lead and develop high\u2011performing technical teams, coaching talent and driving organisational change across mixed sourcing models.  \nExperience with budget ownership and cost management within a defined domain or organisational area.  \nDeep knowledge of technology trends, emerging solutions and best practices for platform lifecycle management, modernisation, and portfolio governance.  \nAbility to apply security\u2011by\u2011design and privacy\u2011by\u2011design principles, taking ownership for risk prevention and remediation.  \nAwareness of regulatory developments, compliance requirements, and digital risk management in platform delivery.  \nStrong problem\u2011solving and decision\u2011making skills, combining analytical thinking with hands\u2011on operational experience to manage and optimise complex technology landscapes.  \n\nAbove all, to thrive at IKEA, you should lead with our values and enjoy working in a culture built on togetherness, simplicity, cost-consciousness, and a drive to always find better ways.  \nAdditional information\n\n\nAt IKEA, we think and work differently. We challenge old patterns and create new solutions, whether that\u2019s a music-playing lamp or plant-based food that\u2019s better for the planet. Our vision is simple: to create a better everyday life for the many people.   \nIn Technology and Platform, we support the whole organisation by providing reliable technology and digital platforms that are easy to use and built for the future. By working closely with others across IKEA, we turn technology into real value and support ongoing transformation.   \nThis is a full-time position\u202flocated Malm\u00f6. The role reports into the Platform Area Manager \u2013 Core Infra and Compute Platforms and belongs to the Technology and Platform area within Operations Management. It is an enabling function with the core assignment to lead, develop, and\u202fmaintain\u202fthe common foundation for how Inter IKEA works across the value chain.\u202fif you would like to know more about the role, please connect with\u202fhiring\u202fmanager Susanne Bengtsson (susanne.bengtsson@inter.ikea.com), or if you have questions about the recruitment process, please connect with\u202frecruiter Calvin Blyth (calvin.blyth2@inter.ikea.com)\n\u00d6ppen f\u00f6r alla\nVi fokuserar p\u00e5 din kompetens, inte dina \u00f6vriga f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningar. 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