Platform Specialist | Cloud Architecture

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

• Full-time

Job Description

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilites, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Platform Specialist, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

We’re looking for a Platform Specialist with a cloud architecture focus who wants to turn a complex technology landscape into clear, reusable and scalable foundations. You will join Range Technology Foundation, where we create horizontal capabilities, shared frameworks, automation and guidance that help product teams deliver business value with less cognitive load. Your primary focus will be shaping cloud architecture and platform patterns that connect product-team needs with enterprise cloud and infrastructure services, while enabling secure, compliant and efficient delivery.

On a typical day, you will:

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.

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role as a Platform Specialist requires you to:

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.

Additional Information

Be yourself, a Platform Specialist, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

Range Technology Foundation builds the horizontal engineering foundation used across Range. We work openly and collaboratively to reduce repeated technical work, simplify complexity and turn shared enterprise capabilities into practical patterns and services that product teams can consume.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

We welcome your application

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by 25th of October at the latest.

This is a permanent role based in Malmö; hence, you need to be based in Sweden and be able to work from the office. We believe that your presence with the team and working most of the time in the workplace are important.

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Vera Bendz, Recruiter, at [e-mail]. If you have questions about the role, please contact Daniel Svensson, [e-mail].

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organisational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA of Sweden and Inter IKEA Technology Services AB, provided competence requirements are met for the role.