Solution Architect- BR&C and Legal

"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

Bengaluru

• Employment type

Full Time Permanent

• Department

IT \& Digital Solutions

• Deadline

2026\-11\-10

Candidate profile (title) Who you are

Candidate profile (text) \- Default language At IKEA, we are on a journey to simplify, standardize, and modernize our digital landscape to enable business growth while ensuring compliance, governance, and sustainable business practices.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join the Business Risk \& Compliance and Legal Product Area within Group Digital. In this role, you will safeguard and evolve solution design across a portfolio of products supporting enterprise risk management, internal controls, compliance, audit management, health, safety \& security, legal operations, and reporting capabilities.

You are a strategic thinker and have a strong understanding of business processes and governance frameworks and can translate complex business requirements into simple, scalable, and integrated solutions. You thrive in collaborating with business stakeholders, product teams, engineers, and external partners to drive business value through technology. Your holistic mindset enables you to connect business needs, process design, data, and technology capabilities to deliver sustainable outcomes.

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.

Key responsibilities (title) A day in your life with us

Key responsibilities (text) As a Solution Architect within BR\&C and Legal, you will shape and govern solution architecture across a diverse portfolio of products and capabilities supporting risk, compliance, audit, legal, and health \& safety functions.

You will

• Analyze business processes and technology landscapes to identify opportunities for simplification, optimization, and digital transformation.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, compliance requirements, regulatory needs, and operational challenges.
• Design holistic and scalable functional solutions that support current and future business needs.
• Define and maintain the architecture vision and roadmap for the BR\&C and Legal solution landscape.
• Develop and maintain solution roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture principles.
• Drive architecture discussions across product teams and digital domains to ensure integrated and consistent solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and implementation partners to translate business and functional requirements into effective technology solutions.
• Ensure solutions support data integrity, auditability, governance, compliance, and reporting requirements.
• Influence stakeholders through insights, analysis, and a deep understanding of business processes and technology capabilities.
• Support implementation initiatives through architectural guidance, solution reviews, and design governance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and best practices to continuously improve the BR\&C digital landscape.
• Promote standardization, reuse, and simplification across platforms and processes.
• Enable reporting, analytics, and insight generation through modern data and reporting architectures.
• Ensure architecture alignment with enterprise standards, governance frameworks, and digital strategy.
• Support technology evaluations, proof\-of\-concepts, and architectural decision\-making.

Your area of responsibility

You will support and evolve solutions across

• Risk \& Control Management
• Compliance \& Audit Management
• Health, Safety \& Security Management
• Legal Product Management
• Reporting \& Insights

Team vision ( title) Together as a team

Team vision (text) You will work in Group Function Digital Area. The Digital Area – Group Functions is a new area built to strengthen digital partnership and delivery across all Group Functions and Global Business Operations (GBO). We develop and deliver digital capabilities across key areas like Finance, People \& Culture, Procurement, Legal, Business Risk \& Compliance, Communications, Real Estate, Business Steering in Ingkas global organization.

You will also be part of the Platform Subdomain Domain leadership team that is working in a dynamic retail environment.

You will be part of our team and work closely with Business Risk \& Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, Health \& Safety, Enterprise Architecture, and Digital Engineering teams. Together, we create secure, compliant, and innovative digital capabilities that support the organization's governance and compliance objectives.

You will play a key role in shaping the future architecture of the BR\&C technology landscape, ensuring the organization leverages modern SAP technologies and industry best practices to deliver scalable and value\-driven digital solutions.

Architecture Leadership

• Define architecture principles and technology standards.
• Review solution designs.
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
• Govern integrations.
• Drive platform modernization.
• Manage technical debt.
• Promote reusable architecture patterns.

Technology Landscape

• SAP GRC
• SAP BTP
• RDBMS
• Enterprise APIs
• Home\-grown applications

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 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.

We can offer you

• Opportunity to shape enterprise\-wide solutions supporting critical governance and compliance processes.
• A strategic architecture role with high business impact.
• Exposure to modern SAP technologies including SAP GRC and SAP BTP.
• A collaborative and global work environment.
• Opportunities for continuous learning, innovation, and professional growth.
• The ability to influence technology strategy and architecture at enterprise scale.

Let´s connect Ashish Kumar

### **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!