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Job Description

At H&M Group, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. As part of Tech Sustainability, our mission is to build a platform for real-time sustainability data, helping us achieve ambitious environmental goals and reduce our carbon footprint. We aim to connect sustainability data across our entire value chain—from production to logistics—enabling advanced calculations, predictions, and visualizations through reports and dashboards. Our vision is to fuel a positive impact on our ecosystem by leading the way in sustainability.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our team in our mission to build a world-class sustainability platform for external reporting of ESG legislation. You will be responsible for driving end-to-end architecture solutions for sustainability with close collaboration to the business and other stakeholders within tech. As a solution architect you are responsible for translating business- and tech requirements into architecture blueprints and identifying areas in need of improvements, holistically evaluate the architecture and use deep technical expertise to understand the business impact of a technical components, recommending and implementing new solutions. Provide leadership related to the solution development by being responsible for the architecture and delivery of a solution or portfolio of solutions. The Solution Architect needs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, advancing the architecture towards the target state.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contextualize business strategy and objectives into capabilities and architectural vision and strategy
• Develop architecture roadmaps and blueprints, creating design artifacts such as Logical Information Models
• Translate business and technical requirements into architecture that guides solution development and supports efficient collaboration with data analysts and data engineers
• Evaluate technologies for strategic fit, contributing to business cases for tech shifts.
• Identify opportunities for improvement, addressing technical debt and enhancing value.
• Provide technical design reviews at various milestones to ensure alignment with architectural principles and organizational goals.
• Embed architecture thinking across the team and support less experienced individuals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience in architecting/designing solutions built on Cloud (ideally Google or Azure).
• Proficiency in BigQuery, APIs, and other data-driven technologies to support real-time analytics.
• Ability to create both high-level and low-level design documentation and technical specifications, with hands-on experience in programming or software engineering.
• A strong problem-solver who can analyze complex issues, visualize concepts not yet concrete, and develop innovative solutions aligned with H&M’s sustainability goals.
• Demonstrated adaptability and creativity to navigate a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Ability to provide architecture leadership, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth handoff from design to implementation, and conducting technical design and quality reviews throughout project milestones.
• Experience evaluating and developing governance structures, methodologies, and compliance measures to ensure security and regulatory alignment (e.g., GDPR) in data handling.
• Commitment to quality and detail-oriented execution, with the drive to identify and address both current and potential obstacles or opportunities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Additional Information

This is a full-time permanent position, starting as soon as possible according to agreement. The role is an on-site position, based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden and requires on-site presence 3-4 days a week.

We have an ongoing selection, so send in your application today! Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Benefits

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity

At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Company Description

H&M Group is a family of brands; H&M, COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET and Afound. At H&M Group, our people are the driving force behind our commitment to creating meaningful growth and more sustainable lifestyles. Help us re-imagine fashion and together we will re-shape our industry. Learn more about H&M Group here