Enterprise Architect - Security, Digital Technology, Group Digital, Malmö - Sweden

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

IKEA Malmö is seeking an Enterprise Architect, Security to lead security architecture across Ingka’s digital landscape. You will partner with Cyber Security, Privacy, Digital Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Data & AI, and Product teams to enable secure innovation at scale.

You bring a strategic, holistic mindset, translating business priorities into pragmatic architecture direction and guardrails. This role is based in Malmö with relocation support if needed, and a commitment to inclusive

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cyber security, enterprise architecture, and technology architecture.
• Led or significantly contributed to enterprise-wide security architecture transformations in large-scale, global organizations.
• Experience translating business priorities, tech strategy, regulatory expectations, and cyber risk into architecture direction.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Ingka’s Security Architecture, target state and roadmap.
• Establish reusable security principles, standards and reference architectures.
• Translate security requirements into practical guardrails and automated controls for teams.
• Develop and evolve Cyber Defence Architecture for prevention, detection, response, and observability.
• Shape the AI Security Architecture for secure AI adoption.
• Advise stakeholders on AI-related risks, governance and threat patterns.
• Identify and drive security capabilities, products and services for secure AI and scalable digital innovation.
• Lead cross-domain security architecture resolution and alignment with business priorities.
• Represent the CISO organization in governance and investment decisions.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, digital infra, data & AI, product and engineering leaders.

Skills

Stakeholder alignment

Security architecture

Zero Trust

Identity management

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Threat detection

Security automation

Governance

Architectural leadership

Cross-domain collaboration

Job description

You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.

A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself.

You are passionate about technology, security and innovation, and motivated by turning architectural direction into meaningful business outcomes. You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands‑on approach and can make complex security topics understandable and actionable for a broad range of stakeholders.

You have a product‑and customer‑centric mindset and understand that security architecture must enable, rather than slow down, digital innovation. You are comfortable working in an environment of continuous change, balancing long‑term architectural direction with the needs of product teams and modern engineering practices. You enjoy working independently while building strong partnerships across technology, business, risk and security functions. Above all, you share and live the IKEA culture and values.

To be successful in this role, you have extensive experience in cyber security, enterprise architecture, technology architecture, computer science or a related field. You have led or significantly contributed to enterprise‑wide security architecture transformation in a complex, global organisation ideally within retail, digital commerce or another large‑scale omnichannel environment.

We believe you have significant experience in security, architecture, engineering or technology leadership roles, including experience designing secure, resilient and scalable distributed systems. You have worked with senior leaders to translate business priorities, technology strategy, regulatory expectations and cyber risk into clear architecture direction, investment priorities and practical guardrails.

You bring a strategic, holistic and outcome‑led mindset, with the ability to influence change across a diverse organisation.

Your responsibilities

As an Enterprise Architect, Security, you are part of the Enterprise Architecture leadership team and play a key role in shaping the security, privacy and trust for the Ingka’s digital landscape. You provide strategic direction, principles, standards and architecture guardrails that enable secure, resilient and trusted digital products, platforms and services.

You will lead and evolve enterprise‑wide Security Architecture, connecting business ambitions, cyber risk, technology strategy and modern engineering practices. You will help ensure security is embedded by design across Ingka’s digital ecosystem from cloud platforms and identity services to data, AI, applications and cyber defence capabilities.

You will work closely with Cyber Security, Privacy, Digital Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Data & AI, Product and Engineering leaders to enable secure innovation at scale. Your decisions will serve the needs of Ingka as a whole, rather than optimising for individual domains or technologies.

• Define and evolve Ingka’s Security Architecture, target state and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities, technology strategy and cyber risk appetite.
• Establish reusable security principles, standards and reference architectures across Zero Trust, identity and access management, cloud and SaaS security, data protection, application and platform security, and cyber defence.
• Drive secure‑by‑design and secure‑by‑default practices by translating security, privacy and compliance requirements into practical guardrails, patterns and automated controls for product, platform and engineering teams.
• Guide the development of Ingka’s modern Cyber Defence Architecture, strengthening capabilities for prevention, detection, response, recovery, security observability and automation.
• Shape and evolve the AI Security Architecture together with Security, Enterprise Architecture, Data & AI, Privacy and Risk teams, enabling the secure and responsible adoption of AI across Ingka.
• Act as a subject matter expert on AI security, advising stakeholders on AI‑related risks, governance, controls, data protection, secure architecture patterns and emerging threats.
• Identify and drive the security capabilities, products and services needed to enable secure AI adoption, modern engineering practices and scalable digital innovation.
• Lead resolution of complex cross‑domain security architecture challenges, including identity boundaries, privileged access, cloud and workload protection, network segmentation and shared security services.
• Represent the CISO organisation and broader security interests in architecture governance, strategic initiatives and investment decisions.
• Partner with Cyber Security & Privacy, Digital Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Data & AI, Product and Engineering leaders to ensure security architecture enables resilient, compliant and trusted digital products and services.

You bring the following capabilities and experience

• Ability to align senior stakeholders, including executive and board‑level audiences, around a common security vision, architecture direction and prioritised outcomes.
• Ability to define and evolve strategic security architecture direction, manage complex trade‑offs, and balance cyber risk reduction with business value, speed, usability, resilience and cost.
• Strong knowledge of modern security architecture across cloud, hybrid and SaaS environments, including identity and access management, data security, application security, platform security, network security and cyber defence.
• Experience designing and evolving security capabilities for cloud‑native, API‑led, distributed and event‑driven technology landscapes.
• Deep understanding of Zero Trust principles and the ability to translate these into scalable architecture patterns, guardrails and engineering practices.
• Extensive experience in identity and access management, including authentication, authorisation, privileged access, machine identities, secrets management and certificate lifecycle management.
• Experience with security observability, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, security automation and continuous control monitoring.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, software delivery, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated security testing, policy‑as‑code and platform engineering.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture principles, target architectures, reference architectures, standards and roadmaps that can be adopted across multiple domains and product teams.
• Knowledge of data and AI security, including the secure adoption of AI services, model and data protection, access controls, third‑party AI risk, AI governance and emerging AI‑related threats.
• Ability to solve complex, cross‑domain architecture challenges and guide technology transformation that enables new digital opportunities and business models.
• A strong understanding of enterprise architecture and the ability to connect security architecture decisions with business strategy, digital products, platforms and the wider technology landscape.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing architecture or engineering teams, while influencing stakeholders beyond direct reporting lines.

You are a collaborative and trusted leader who can engage a diverse set of stakeholders and create clarity in complex situations. You are attentive to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture, actively develop your own knowledge and capabilities, and champion ways of working that improve speed, quality and security. You are curious about emerging technologies and can adapt your approach as business priorities, threats and technology evolve.

About this work area

We set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast‑moving environment. We develop, provide and operate digital products and services using new and existing technologies and agile delivery methods. We provide a home for digital skills, helping co‑workers develop the technical, people and business capabilities needed for continuous growth. We enjoy solving complex problems and finding ways to make things smarter, safer and more user‑friendly.

We bring different backgrounds and perspectives to enable efficient product development and delivery through innovative engineering.

This role is based in Malmö, Sweden, and you will report to the Chief Architect for INGKA.

In this recruitment, IKEA is providing international relocation support if needed.

At IKEA we are convinced that an equal everyday is a better everyday. We put equality, inclusion and humanism at the heart of everything we do, including recruitment. We are committed to creating a workplace as diverse as the world is, and as inclusive as the world should be. We actively work for IKEA to be a place where people of all genders, ethnicities, races, nationalities, abilities, and sexual orientations feel welcome and able to be themselves.

We look forward to receiving your application!