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Company Description IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust. We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities.
As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference. If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS. Job Description About IFS and the CTO Office IFS builds enterprise software for asset-intensive and service industries: ERP, Enterprise Asset Management, and Field Service Management.
The CTO Office is an independent unit within Product & Customer with a dual mandate: track what is genuinely happening at the frontier of the industry, and convert it into technology strategy and working software inside IFS. It operates close to the executive team, frontier AI labs, and strategic partners, and it moves faster than a normal product organisation is allowed to. inference workloads  Data foundations: pipelines and lakehouse patterns (Microsoft Fabric/OneLake, Databricks, or equivalents), streaming and event-driven integration where the problem demands it  Enterprise integration: API design and consumption at scale, including REST, OData, GraphQL, and webhook/event patterns into ERP-class systems  What sets candidates apart  Classical ML depth alongside GenAI: forecasting, anomaly detection, predicThe role  This is a hands-on architect role that grows into a player-coach role.
You will start as the senior technical individual contributor in the CTO Office and then hire and lead a small team of engineers built in your image.  The unit takes on whatever matters most at the time. One month that is a production-grade agentic system with a frontier model provider, the next it is an architecture review of a platform under consideration, an internal AI tool the whole company adopts, or a technical escalation from a strategic customer.
There is no standing backlog to hide behind. You go in, learn the domain fast, deliver something real in weeks, and hand it over or harden it.  We are explicit about the calibre we are hiring for. The team exists to produce output that would normally take a squad a quarter, in a fraction of the time, at production quality. If that sounds exhausting rather than energising, this is the wrong role.  What you will do  Own architecture and delivery on the CTO Office's h