Solution Architect - Assortment Planning
Workplace: Stockholm, Sverige
Expires: September 10, 2025
As a Solution Architect at H&M, you will lead the technical architecture for business-critical assortment planning capabilities, focusing on scalable, modular, and data-driven solutions. This strategic role involves working closely with multiple stakeholders to deliver transformation initiatives aligned with enterprise goals and sustainability principles.
Main requirements:
  • 8+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale systems.
  • Proven experience in solution architecture within cloud-native and microservices environments.
  • Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including Azure Container Apps and Event Grid.
  • Proficiency in architectural modelling (PlantUML, C4 Model, BPMN) and documentation tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance-by-design principles.
  • Experience in scaled agile federated team environments.
  • Ability to drive cost-conscious design decisions across infrastructure, data, and integration layers.
  • Strong judgment balancing technical ambition and delivery velocity.
Responsibilities:
  • Translate strategic business needs into scalable, modular, and service-based architectures.
  • Lead architecture for domains such as Planning Article, ASQ Quantify, and AI/ML orchestration.
  • Align with enterprise architecture principles, target states, and capability roadmaps.
  • Define and maintain architectural principles, guardrails, and decision-making frameworks.
  • Manage and evolve version-controlled Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
  • Ensure conformance to integration standards like event-driven, API-first, and asynchronous messaging.
  • Drive structured architectural documentation using PlantUML, C4 Model, and BPMN.
  • Support continuous capability modelling and architectural governance.
  • Reduce technical debt and enhance system resilience and scalability.
  • Ensure ESG compliance and sustainable design in architectures.
  • Mentor tech leads to promote architectural maturity.
  • Facilitate architectural clarity across cross-functional teams and initiatives.
  • Balance architectural elegance with pragmatic, value-driven decisions.
Required hard skills:
  • Solution architecture in cloud-native and microservices environments
  • Microsoft Azure expertise (Azure Container Apps, Event Grid)
  • Architectural modelling tools (PlantUML, C4 Model, BPMN)
  • CI/CD tools and infrastructure as code
  • Security, privacy, and compliance principles
  • Scaled agile framework
  • Cost-conscious design
  • Technical communication skills
Recommended hard skills:
  • Enterprise-level planning and quantification systems experience
  • Retail, Supply Chain, or Assortment Planning domain knowledge
  • Backstage, Git submodules, ADR tooling
  • Capability modelling and domain-driven design (DDD)
  • Integration technologies like Kafka, Solace, Azure API Management
  • Graph and document databases (Neo4j, MongoDB)
  • Integration testing frameworks like Testcontainers
  • ESG-aligned architecture practices
  • Data platform, AI/ML system integration, decision intelligence
  • Cost transparency, observability, system telemetry
  • Defining transition architectures and long-term target states
Soft skills:
  • Strategic thinking
  • Leadership and mentorship
  • Strong judgment and decision making
  • Clear and precise communication
  • Ability to handle complex concepts
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Feedback receptiveness
Natural languages:
  • English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
  • Inclusive and collaborative work culture
  • Sustainability-focused mindset
  • Customer-centric approach
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