Strategic Enterprise Architect - Data, AI & Automation

IKEA; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, seeks an Enterprise Architect for Enterprise Data, AI & Automation to shape a data-centric, AI-enabled architecture portfolio across the group. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, define strategic targets, and drive reusable patterns and governance for scalable digital capabilities.

Based in Amsterdam, this role focuses on responsible AI adoption, model lifecycle management and end-to-end automation across markets, ensuring architecture coherence

Qualifications

• Experience in modern data architecture, data products and data contracts.
• Experience shaping AI architecture across lifecycle including governance and continuous improvement.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and balance risks, value and architectural sustainability.
• Strong leadership, collaboration and coaching across architects, engineers and specialists.

Responsibilities

• Define target architecture and roadmap for Enterprise Data, AI and Automation.
• Shape shared data, AI and automation foundations for scalable capabilities.
• Establish enterprise reference architectures, standards and guardrails for data and AI.
• Drive evolution of Enterprise AI Architecture with responsible adoption of generative AI and ML.
• Ensure governance, transparency, security, privacy and lifecycle management of AI solutions.
• Partner with senior leaders to align priorities and investments.
• Create reusable data products, models, contracts and interfaces across the enterprise.
• Define patterns for process automation and orchestration at scale.

Skills

Data architecture

AI & automation

Stakeholder influence

Leadership & coaching

Generative AI

Governance & guardrails

Job description

IKEA in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, seeks an Enterprise Architect for Enterprise Data, AI & Automation to shape a data-centric, AI-enabled architecture portfolio across the group. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, define strategic targets, and drive reusable patterns and governance for scalable digital capabilities.

Based in Amsterdam, this role focuses on responsible AI adoption, model lifecycle management and end-to-end automation across markets, ensuring architecture coherence