Platform Engineering Leader

As a Platform Engineering Leader, you’ll help shape how engineering work comes together across multiple teams by creating alignment, spotting opportunities to reuse great ideas, and championing best practices that make our platforms stronger. You’ll work closely with Architecture to ensure our technical solutions—including those leveraging cloud technologies, AI capabilities and automation—connect seamlessly across products and platforms, supporting performance, reusability and broader business goals. With your understanding of the IKEA business model and its technology landscape, you’ll guide teams to improve information flow and ensure engineering work is both effective and meaningful.  You’ll also play a key role in building a collaborative and inclusive engineering culture—driving adoption of smart design patterns, promoting shared technology platforms and modern cloud‑ and AI‑driven approaches, and avoiding duplicated effort through thoughtful automation. As an ambassador for platform engineering, you’ll onboard new engineers, explore emerging technologies, and recommend improvements that enhance performance, reliability and efficiency. As a senior voice in the wider technology community, you’ll represent IKEA both internally and externally, helping shape the future of engineering across the organisation.  We’re looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high‑quality platforms and technology within complex ecosystems, and who loves exploring new ideas and innovations.   With a solid foundation in network architecture, base infrastructure, platform engineering and service management, you navigate cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments with ease.   You treat physical and network deployments with a software engineering mindset at scale. This includes Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, etc.), network virtualization, and high levels of automation.   You easily understand and navigate with terms as ZTNA, identity-based access, micro-segmentation and SASE, to protect our global value chain. You are experienced with modern technologies like SD-WAN, wireless, and data centre networking. On top of that you understand the need of highly automated base infra such as DNS/DHCP/IPAM is highly available and automated  You thrive in a fast-changing environment and bring a growth mindset, exploring, learning, and sharing better ways forward. Above all, you lead with IKEA values and use technology to enable “a better everyday life for the many.”   You’ll thrive in an environment where agility, curiosity, and adaptability are valued—whether you’re working independently or as part of a cross‑functional team. With a mindset focused on simplicity, efficiency, and accountability, you’ll actively seek out new skills, champion fresh methods, and help shape new digital ways of working that improve performance and inspire others.  You’ll bring strong interpersonal and communication…