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"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 2026-08-02 - Mobility support Domestic Candidate profile (title) Who you are Candidate profile (text) - Default language Are you passionate about compensation and how it creates a comprehensive offer for co-workers Do you enjoy understanding how systems, processes, and workflows connect end-to-end Are you someone with a genuine interest in how to improve through a smart combination of technology and processes If yes keep reading, this might be your next role! We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to join our People Platform You will play a key role in shaping and maintaining our People Platform area. We believe you bring: - Has strong experience (8-10yrs) in integration product ownership or architecture ideally within an HR technology or enterprise platform environment - Has worked across platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors, Avature, OpenText, or ServiceNow and understands how they connect and interact - Understands integration patterns and middleware familiar with APIs, event-driven architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, and tools such as Astronomer, DBT, Quick API, or similar - Has a solid grasp of API governance, integration standards, and enterprise architecture principles - Naturally connects strategy to execution able to work at both architectural and delivery levels - Is curious and forward-looking translating AI, automation, and integration trends into actionable roadmap decisions - Is curious and forward-looking turning AI, automation, and data trends into actionable roadmap decisions - Thrives in cross-functional environments managing dependencies across engineering, architecture, and business teams - Communicates complex data and integration concepts clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders Key responsibilities (title) A day in your life with us Key responsibilities (text) As a Senior Product Owner, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of our People Platform ensuring reliable, connected, and intelligent data flows across our HR technology ecosystem. This includes ownership of integrations, middleware, pipelines, and reporting that underpin our People & Culture platforms. This role is for someone who understands integrations deeply how it moves, how it's governed, and how it creates value across an organisation. This means that you will: - Define and own the multi-year data platform roadmap covering integrations, middleware, system sources, pipelines, and reporting across the HR technology landscape - Define and own the integration roadmap across the People platform ecosystem covering middleware, APIs, data pipelines, and system-to-system connections - Stay close to emerging integration technologies, tools, and market trends translating them into practical direction - Lead planning and prioritisation managing cross-platform dependencies across SuccessFactors, Avature, OpenText, ServiceNow, and adjacent systems - Define and govern integration standards, API frameworks, and middleware patterns across the People platform landscape - Translate complex business and technical needs into a clear, well-structured backlog using roadmap tools and Jira - Drive stakeholder alignment across engineering, architecture, business, and platform teams - Act as a trusted advisor on integration architecture, technical trade-offs, and platform connectivity decisions - Ensure reliability, performance, and governance across all integration flows and middleware components - Continuously improve integration quality, observability, and operational efficiency 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 Ingka's global organisation. You will be part of a team driving the future of People Platform solutions - with a clear vision to deliver seamless, human-centred HCM processes and experiences for our co-workers across IKEA. We are a team that: - Leads with data - our decisions are grounded in insights, not assumptions - Collaborates openly - we work across people and teams in a pragmatic, inclusive .
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