Data, AI & Automation Enterprise Architect

IKEA; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect – Data, AI & Automation to define and lead the strategic direction for data, AI, and automation across the enterprise. You will shape reference architectures, roadmaps, and governance while partnering with senior leaders to balance value, risk and architectural sustainability.

Based in Amsterdam, you will enable trusted data products, scalable AI capabilities and responsible automation, driving transformational outcomes

Qualifications

• Ability to connect business strategy with Data, AI and Automation architecture, defining a clear target state, transition roadmap and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and investment decisions, making enterprise-wide dependencies, risks and trade-offs visible.
• Strong expertise in modern data architecture, including data products, data models, data contracts, metadata, interoperability, governance and self-service data capabilities.
• Experience shaping AI architecture across the full lifecycle from data and model development to deployment, monitoring, evaluation, governance and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of modern AI capabilities, including generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, decision intelligence and AI-enabled experiences.
• Experience defining scalable patterns for process automation, workflow orchestration, intelligent automation, decision automation and integration across end-to-end business processes.
• Ability to establish reusable platforms, common building blocks and architecture guardrails that enable product teams to innovate quickly while reducing duplication and technical debt.
• Experience balancing innovation, business value, security, privacy, compliance, responsible AI and operational resilience in architecture decisions.
• Ability to resolve complex cross-domain architecture challenges, guide significant landscape changes and simplify legacy environments over time.
• A collaborative leadership style, with experience coaching architects, engineers and specialists and strengthening architecture practices across an organisation.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture and target roadmap for Enterprise Data, AI and Automation to support IKEA's data-centric, AI-enabled and automated landscape.
• Define strategic direction, reference architectures, principles and roadmaps for data, AI and Process Automation across the enterprise.
• Ensure governance, security, privacy, data quality, and lifecycle management for AI solutions and data products.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to align investments, priorities and architecture decisions with business outcomes.
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture team to provide reusable patterns, guardrails and scalable platforms for product teams.

Skills

Strategy alignment

Stakeholder influence

Modern data architecture

AI architecture lifecycle

Generative AI familiarity

Process automation patterns

Reusable platforms

Security and compliance

Cross-domain problem solving

Leadership coaching

Job description

IKEA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect – Data, AI & Automation to define and lead the strategic direction for data, AI, and automation across the enterprise. You will shape reference architectures, roadmaps, and governance while partnering with senior leaders to balance value, risk and architectural sustainability.

Based in Amsterdam, you will enable trusted data products, scalable AI capabilities and responsible automation, driving transformational outcomes