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Software Engineering Specialist - Digital Automation
About this role
As a Software Engineering Specialist in Digital Automation, you will combine deep technical expertise with hands-on software engineering to enable the successful delivery of automation capabilities across the IKEA value chain. You will act as a recognised specialist within your area of expertise while remaining actively involved in the design, development, deployment and operation of digital solutions. The Software Engineering Specialist role builds upon the Software Engineer role by providing deeper expertise within a specialised discipline and supporting engineering excellence across teams, products and technology domains.
You will contribute both vertically within your assigned product area and horizontally through collaboration, coaching and knowledge sharing across the broader engineering community. Within Digital Automation, your specialisation may include areas such as DevOps engineering, cloud engineering, data and integration engineering, API development, Requirement solicitation, security engineering, knowledge engineering, intelligent automation or other specialised technical domains.
You will apply your expertise to solve complex technical challenges, improve engineering practices and help shape the evolution of our automation capabilities. More specifically, in this role you will (be): Act as a recognised technical specialist within a defined software engineering discipline, driving best practices and providing expert guidance. Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software solutions that enable business outcomes and deliver value to users.
Apply and promote modern software engineering practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation and quality engineering. Take ownership of complex technical challenges and provide specialist expertise to support delivery teams. Contribute to architecture discussions and provide specialist input to solution designs and technical decision making. Explore and evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends and engineering practices that may benefit Digital Automation products and platforms.
Create prototypes, proofs of concept, data models, integrations, configurations or other technical artefacts needed to validate new ideas and technologies. Support and coach engineers within your area of expertise through mentoring, knowledge sharing and technical guidance. We are on the journey to transform our digital capabilities, bringing core business processes, people, data & technology together - an enabler for IKEA to become an even better home furnishing company in the future.