Lead Engineer

Job Description

Are you a skilled data-savvy engineer who's ready to take technical ownership of a powerful data centric product being on the front of carbon and sustainability analytics to make a difference in the LEGO Group Planet Promise?

As Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for nurturing the engineering culture, defining the technical direction, and ensuring alignment to the overall domain architecture for your digital product. Furthermore, you take ownership for achieving technical objectives and strategies.

• Lead by example for all engineers on the team with a hands-on approach, providing technical coaching, leadership, and mentoring to foster growth and excellence.

• Serve as the technical representative for the product, building strong relationships and actively engaging with partners both within and outside the Digital Technology department.

• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to define priorities, align development goals with business objectives, and ensure successful product delivery.

• Stay proactive in the technology landscape by researching, evaluating, and introducing relevant tools, techniques, and methodologies to enhance the team's capabilities.

• Lead user/customer collaboration throughout all stages of work, and support backlog prioritization by offering an engineering perspective.

• Ensure the data integrity, quality, and scalability of the team's data products on the LEGO Data Platform, focusing on data contracts, CI/CD practices, and efficient data processing techniques.

• Superb communication skills for explaining technical solutions to non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

• Extensive experience in solution architecture, particularly for SaaS solutions, with a solid focus on integrating with other products via APIs.

• Proven expertise in data engineering, including proficiency in Python, SQL, and ETL/ELT processes.

• Hands-on experience in data modeling and data architecture.

• Expertise in Cloud Architecture and platforms, particularly AWS and Azure, with the ability to set technical direction.

• Ability to formulate and drive technical roadmaps in collaboration with engineering teams and business collaborators, ensuring delivery of optimal engineering solutions.

• Strong collaborative skills to foster a positive engineering culture in agile and DevOps environments, coupled with attention to detail and excellent problem-solving abilities.

• Previous experience with Databricks and knowledge of Power BI or other analytics tools.

Advanced English both written and verbal would be ideal as we are an internationally gathered team.

Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Join the LEGO team today.