Solution Architect

Company Description
H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organization delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We are accelerating digitalization and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group.
Job Description
In this role as Solution Architect, you will be responsible for translating business and tech requirements into architecture blueprints while identifying areas in need of improvements. To deliver in this role you will holistically have to evaluate the architecture and use deep technical expertise to understand the business impact of a technical components and recommending and implementing new solutions. You will be able to provide needed leadership related to the solution development by being responsible for the architecture and delivery of a solution or portfolio of solutions.


Responsibilities:
Define a shared technical and architectural vision focused on creating technical alignment for the full solution rather than concerns for specific components
Analyze, design, develop and maintain roadmaps and implementation plans
Review, analyze and facilitate stakeholder understanding of business and technology implication of future direction; influence decisions
Provide necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards
Evaluate and drive continuous improvement, reducing technical dept, and enhancing end-to-end business value
Work continuously with incorporation broader aspects such as overall product costs, revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security, integration with other systems
Facilitate best practice sharing and teach architecture thinking to engineering and delivery community


You have deep understanding and knowledge in:
Architecture and solution arch development
Enterprise architecture
Integration management
Broad technology experience in areas such as cloud architecture, cloud computing, applications development, relational databases, machine learning, storage, DevOps containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations and IT transformation

Qualifications
Ability to provide architecture leadership and collaborate with the implementation team and other cross-functional teams for effective hand off of work to streamline the transition from design to project
Provide technical design and quality reviews at various milestones through project lifecycles
Understand and visualize concepts that are not yet concrete, identify patterns and use your problem-solving skills, strong analytic ability, creativity and customer and business drive to find a solution and win support for your ideas
Able to create both high-level and low-level design documentation and technical specification
Able to evaluate and develop governance structures, methodologies and compliance measures
Experience in architecting/designing solutions built on cloud, ideally but not limited to Google cloud platform & Azure
Experience in migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud

Additional Information
If your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please apply with CV in English at the latest by 17th of May.


Please do not send applications to individual email address, due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our career page.
We look forward to receiving your application!
H&M Group is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.