Cloud Platform Architect & Platform Engineering Leader

Ikea; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Inter IKEA Group in Malmö is seeking a Platform Specialist with a cloud architecture focus to turn a complex technology landscape into clear, reusable foundations. You’ll shape platform patterns that connect product-team needs with enterprise services, enabling secure and efficient delivery.

On a typical day you’ll define reference architectures, translate needs into golden paths, guide decisions across cloud domains, collaborate with product teams and shared services, and document architecture

Qualifications

• Have strong experience designing cloud architectures and guiding implementation in complex enterprise environments.
• Understand cloud platforms and core architecture concerns such as identity, networking, security, compliance, observability, resilience, data, integration and cost.
• Be able to move between strategic architecture and hands-on technical problem solving, turning principles into patterns teams can use.
• Understand platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, containers and infrastructure as code.
• Communicate complex choices clearly and collaborate effectively with product teams, engineers, architects, operations and business stakeholders.
• Balance standardization and governance with product-team autonomy, usability and speed.
• Bring curiosity, systems thinking, sound judgement and a strong drive for continuous improvement and learning.
• It’s a plus if you also: Have experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, cloud landing zones, API management or identity and access architecture.
• Have built or evolved internal developer platforms, self-service cloud capabilities or reusable architecture patterns.
• Have experience leading architecture communities, reviews or cross-organisational adoption initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve reference architectures, cloud patterns and guardrails for scalable, resilient and secure digital solutions.
• Translate product-team needs into reusable platform capabilities and consumable golden paths.
• Guide architecture choices across cloud infrastructure, identity and access, networking, observability, data handling, APIs, containers and integration.
• Partner with product teams, Range Operations Technology and shared Tech & Platform services to align dependencies, roadmaps, upgrades and operational needs.
• Support platform lifecycle decisions, including reliability, cost awareness, compliance, maintainability and decommissioning.
• Explore emerging cloud technologies and evaluate where they can improve developer experience, delivery flow or platform outcomes.
• Create clear architecture documentation, decision records, onboarding material and support guidance, and actively share knowledge across the engineering community.
• Track platform outcomes through adoption, service health, lead time, deployment frequency, recovery time and user feedback, then use the insight to improve the platform.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Enterprise environments

Security & compliance

CI/CD & IaC

Kubernetes

Azure

Platform engineering

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Microsoft Azure

API management

Job description

Inter IKEA Group in Malmö is seeking a Platform Specialist with a cloud architecture focus to turn a complex technology landscape into clear, reusable foundations. You’ll shape platform patterns that connect product-team needs with enterprise services, enabling secure and efficient delivery.

On a typical day you’ll define reference architectures, translate needs into golden paths, guide decisions across cloud domains, collaborate with product teams and shared services, and document architecture