Data Engineering Leader|Data & Product|
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Job Summary
As part of this role you will:
Data Engineering Enablement
- Drive continuous improvement collaboration and knowledge sharing across the IKEA Data Engineering community.
- Establish and maintain paved roads reference architectures patterns and reusable components that enable teams to build data products efficiently and consistently.
Technical & Community Leadership (No Line Management)
- Act as a senior individual contributor and role model for data engineering excellence across the organisation.
- Provide technical guidance coaching and mentorship to data engineers across teams without formal peoplemanagement responsibility.
- Facilitate communities of practice guilds or forums to align engineers to standards tooling and ways of working.
Standards Quality Privacy and Security
- Define and promote data engineering standards and best practices covering ingestion transformation testing observability and lifecycle management.
- Ensure that data privacy and data security principles are embedded into data engineering patterns by design (e.g. access control data minimization protection of sensitive data).
- Support compliance with relevant privacy and security requirements by enabling teams with secure compliant default patterns rather than ad hoc solutions.
Data Asset & Lifecycle Enablement
- Support domain teams in establishing reusable wellgoverned data assets that maximise connected value.
- Promote responsible data handling through clear ownership documentation and lifecycle practices ensuring secure use and correct handling of sensitive data throughout its lifecycle.
Platform & Architecture Collaboration
- Work closely with platform leaders platform engineers architects and security stakeholders to ensure that privacy and security requirements are reflected in platforms tooling and paved roads.
- Translate privacy and security constraints into practical developer-friendly guidance for data engineers.
- Help ensure alignment between data engineering practices and IKEAs broader data architecture principles.
Domain & Stakeholder Enablement
- Collaborate with domain teams and stakeholders to understand needs and advise on scalable practical data engineering solutions.
- Enable teams to make informed tradeoffs through guidance patterns and architectural support without becoming a central delivery function.
Insights Access & DataDriven Culture
- Facilitate easy access to trusted data engineering insights standards and recommendations across IKEA.
- Support a culture of datadriven decision making by enabling reliable wellstructured and accessible data pipelines.
Technology Horizon & Continuous Improvement
- Stay up to date with data engineering trends tools and practices assessing their relevance at IKEA scale.
- Drive pragmatic improvements that balance innovation stability and longterm maintainability.
Qualifications :
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Demonstrable experience as a Senior Data engineer in large complex organisations.
- Strong expertise in modern data platforms and architectures.
- Proven ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor.
- Experience defining and scaling standards patterns and best practices including data privacy and data security by design.
- Strong communicator who enjoys enabling and coaching other teams.
Additional Information :
This is a permanent position based in Malmö We are actively conducting ongoing interviews so we encourage you to submit your application without hesitation. For any questions about the recruitment process you can directly connect with
Applications closing date for this role will be 2nd March 2026
At IKEA we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the welcome no matter where you come from what you believe and what you look like. We dont even care how you have furnished your home. Were interested in you simply because youre if your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply believe that peoples different perspectives backgrounds and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs. At IKEA wereall on the same project.
If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process just let us know.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
About Company
The IKEA brand is one of the most successful home furnishing brands in the world. We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. You see things a little differently. So do we. We believe that what yo ... View more
