Solution Architect

In this role as Solution Architect, you will be responsible for translating business and tech requirements into architecture blueprints. You will also conduct thorough analysis of existing solutions, identify gaps, and recommend improvements. To deliver in this role you will have to evaluate the architecture holistically, use deep technical expertise to understand the business impact of technical components, and give recommendations and guidelines for teams implementing solutions.

This is a unique opportunity to join (open for both Bangalore & Stockholm employees) team of Solution Architects working on cutting edge retail solutions within our company within several different areas from product creation, through logistics, to sales in store or online. You will also be contributing to strength the Architecture Community by developing standards and guidelines.

In this specific role, you will be assigned to work with our Warehouse Value Stream that focuses on realizing business outcomes through tech, achieving valuable and viable services and solutions for our warehouses globally. The Warehouse Value Stream leads the tech agenda and is responsible for identifying, defining, developing and operating technical solutions to ensure stable and efficient operations.

You will be responsible for the solution landscape supporting our Warehouse Management and Automation processes – both H&M own warehouses and 3PL.

Responsibilities:

• Contextualize strategic vision and direction; conduct analysis, identify opportunities, constraints, and support strategic activities throughout the solution life cycle.
• Support and bridge stakeholders understanding of business and technology implication of future direction.
• Provide guidance and coaching to advise on options, risks, costs vs. benefits, impact, priorities, etc.
• Translate business needs and technical requirements into architectural blueprints; documenting all solution architecture analysis and design.
• Identify interdependencies and use ‘holistic thinking’ to ensure the cross-team and cross-initiative perspective – also incorporate broader aspects such as overall product costs/revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security etc.
• Analyse, design, develop, maintain, and communicate solution roadmaps and transition architectures.
• Create architectural designs to contextualize solution(s) development, provide leadership and collaborate with teams to ensure the products/solutions are aligned with business and IT goals including the overall enterprise architecture – e.g. relevant technology strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied.
• Evaluate and drive continuous improvement, reducing technical debt and enhancing end-to-end business value.
• Participate in internal and external activities related to technology matching and selection to ensure technology choice aligns with overall tech architecture, standards and business strategy etc.
• Facilitate best practice sharing and teach architecture thinking to engineering and delivery community.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in building complex solutions
• Good understanding of Warehouse Operational processes
• Well-Versed WMS and/or Warehouse Automation (e.g Shuttle systems, GTP, robotics) including Implementations, Support, Testing, Customization, Integration and Application Support
• You can see the big picture, identify patterns, and instinctively know how to win support for your ideas.
• You can understand and visualize concepts that are not yet concrete, and use your problem-solving skills, strong analytic ability, creativity and customer and business drive to find a solution.
• You take the initiative and are not afraid to take the first steps to identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues, and opportunities.
• You show commitment and ownership and demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy, architectural governance, and standards.
• You are open to change and humble about not always knowing everything, so you ask.
• You are an effective team player that can express technical concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and conclusions to peers and people with an only limited technical background and contribute positively to your team environment.
• While being a specialist in a particular area of our architecture, you also have a width across a specific set of disciplines within the domain.

Nice to have:

• Experience from working in a product organization in a large-scale agile set-up
• Experience from integrating 3PL WMS
• Experience from SAP EWM
• Experience from Azure/GCP solutions
• Experience from AI and Data architecture/solutions