Who you are

The Forestland Portfolio, managed by Ingka Investments, represents a vital pillar within the Ingka Group. As one of the largest franchisees of the iconic IKEA brand, with nearly 400 IKEA stores across 32 countries, Ingka Group is committed to sustainability. Their purposeful investments in forestlands-currently totaling €1.1 billion across 320,000 hectares in seven countries-aim to drive positive environmental impact. Looking ahead, they aspire to expand their investment frame to €3 billion by 2030.

We are currently building a modern Azure-based data platform to address the growing reporting and data management needs of the Forestlands team. We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping our data infrastructure, integrating diverse systems, and enabling actionable insights.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will take the lead in setting up standards and defining the architecture for the platform. You'll have a significant impact in shaping the solution, influencing both the technical roadmap and the adoption of actionable insights across business teams. Looking ahead, this role offers growth opportunities, including the potential to lead and mentor a growing team in the future. In this role, you will design, build, and support robust data pipelines and data platforms to integrate and harmonize complex forestry-related datasets from multiple countries and systems. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll deliver scalable, efficient, and high-quality solutions that power critical KPIs, including land acquisitions, sustainability contributions, carbon tracking, and financial performance.

We would love to talk with you if you recognize yourself in the majority of the following:

• Formal qualifications (BSc, MSc, PhD) in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in Data Engineering
• Have developed and maintained ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and standardize data from diverse sources (APIs, databases, CSVs, etc.) into a central data warehouse
• Have implemented Implement data quality checks, governance frameworks, and compliance (e.g., GDPR)
• Have built scalable and secure data platforms that support analytics and reporting requirements
• Experience in optimizing data performance, cost, storage, and reliability for near-real-time insights.
• Experience in Developing data solutions leveraging Azure services, such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data bricks, Data Factory and other Azure Data Services.
• Excited about IKEA's core values and vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people
• A team player who takes ownership builds cross-functional relationships with peers, and loves sharing knowledge with other team members
• Most of all someone that likes to learn new things and improve their skills!

The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day-to-day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it's important for us that you share our values! You can read more about our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com.

What you'll be doing day to day

The Sr Data Engineer will be a hands-on contributor in finding solutions to questions like:
• How do we design, build, test and support data products and cloud-based services to promote data consumption?
• How should we ingest, merge, transform, and serve data to enable usage at the global scale?
• How can we implement data models, schemas, and pipelines to satisfy both user needs and non-functional requirements?
• How can we optimize the platform in terms of performance and costs?
• Perhaps you have your ideas on problems to solve? Our goal is to create a better everyday life for the many people by creating a unique partnership with each customer. To do so, we want to give customers the most beneficial offer for them, exactly when they need it, and support them throughout their journey with IKEA in the best way possible.

Our team within IKEA

We're the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.

Questions and support? 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 in life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us.

If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please reach out to Annette Björkquist-?...hstedt at annette.bjorkquist-ahstedt@ingka.ikea.com. Please apply with your application in English. Note that we can't process any applications through email.

Thank you!