Senior Systems Engineer - Digital Workplace, Group Digital, Sweden

"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."

• Location Helsingborg, Malmö
• Employment type Full Time Permanent
• Department IT & Digital Solutions
• Deadline 2026-10-29

Candidate profile (title) Who you are Candidate profile (text) - Default language We are looking for a senior system engineer to join us in developing ways for IKEA to stay relevant for our 170 000 coworkers. We believe you are passionate about solving complex problems and turning them into simple, scalable solutions. You take ownership, think long-term, and enjoy working cross-functional and technical boundaries. You are confident leading technical discussions, influencing decisions, and balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

Our diverse team is growing, and we would love to talk to you if you recognize yourself in some of the following:

• Passionate about understanding complex problems and turning them into simple solutions
• Have a strong background in creating data driven solutions
• Take ownership and independently drive toward desired outcomes while visualizing value
• Work toward established architectural patterns and engineering standards. This position is in the meeting zone between standard enterprise solutions (SAP, Microsoft, Service Now) and new AI development to stitch the experience together.
• You are a team player who takes ownership, builds cross-functional relationships with peers and loves sharing knowledge with others.
• Proactively manages relevant stakeholders
• Are curious, self-directed, and want to keep learning

This is our wish list! If you don’t recognize yourself in all these points, you might still be an excellent candidate for the role.

The must-haves we see for this role are:

• Extensive experience working with experience management in large, global enterprise environments
• Deep technical knowledge in minimum 2 of the 3 following fields: device management platforms, agent orchestration with user interfaces (for instance MoveWorks or MS Coworking stack) and/or data collection and storing on scale (for instance in BigQuery or DataBricks) for experience management.
• Strong collaboration skills with various stakeholders across time zones

IKEA culture and values are a big part of our day-to-day work, and we’re looking for someone who shares them and wants to grow with us. Key responsibilities (title) A day in your life with us Key responsibilities (text) You’ll be a vital part of the transformation of IKEA into a more front-line-obsessed company by ensuring that we provide offerings that are both cost-efficient and fit for purpose for our co-workers globally.

This means that you will:

• Be our technical mentor and role model, supporting knowledge sharing and engineering excellence within the team
• Lead and promote good engineering practices and architectural strategies. Also act as a connector between different tech disciplines to provide stakeholders with a point of view to technical solutions and possibilities.
• Encourage experimentation and engage into building early prototypes for business problems we want to innovate on.
• Collaborate with product owners to translate business and co-worker needs into technical outcomes and a clear value narrative.
• Partner with service integrators to ensure high-quality delivery and continuous improvement. Team vision ( title) Together as a team Team vision (text) You will work in Group Function Digital Area. This organisation is a new area built to strengthen digital partnerships and delivery across all Ingkas Group Functions. We develop and deliver digital capabilities across key areas like Retail, Finance, People & Culture, Procurement, Legal, Business Risk & Compliance, Communications, Real Estate and Business Steering.

In the Co-Worker Engagement and Experience team, we collaborate across roles and disciplines to create seamless, reliable co-worker experience at scale. We combine deep technical expertise with strong user perspective, working closely with product owners, engineers, service partners and stakeholders across the organisation. By sharing knowledge openly and supporting one another, we turn complexity into simple,

impactful solutions for our co-workers. Together, we make technology an enabler for great everyday work for co-workers at IKEA.

We see so many opportunities for what we can accomplish and have the ambition to be a world-class team. At the same time, we believe that our work is not just about building models, but also about learning and having fun together.

IKEA has long been a global leader in home furnishing. We are proud of our vision to improve the everyday life of the many people. But our industry is quickly changing, and we need to adapt to stay competitive.

We can offer you:

• The possibility to enhance Ingka’s coworker experience offer to the next level! We are exploring what it means to be truly data driven and we want you to join us on the journey.
• Opportunities to have a global impact with your work.
• A team of great colleagues to learn with and from (with world-class experience across all aspects of Technology).
• Flexible and friendly working environment. Let's connect Questions and support? Let's connect! Let´s connect Does this sound like your next challenge? IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global workplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us.

The position is based in Helsingborg, Sweden. At IKEA, we believe we are at our best when we are physically together, collaborating, sharing ideas, and building connections through everyday interactions. We therefore spend the majority of our time in the workplace, while offering flexibility to work from home when relevant.

We review applications on an ongoing basis and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Please submit your application in English. Note that we can’t process any applications through email.

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please feel free to contact the recruiter, Ashurina Aorahim, ashurina.aorahim@ingka.com.

We look forward to learning more about you!

Why you will love us

From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.

At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.

Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

What we all have in common

• Living our values
• Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
• A passion for home furnishing
• Performing & delivering while learning & developing
• Having fun!