Principal Engineer, Infrastructure

Job Description
Are you interested in providing technical leadership across product domains to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions?

Bring your huge theoretical and practical knowledge of SW engineering and IT architecture and come join the LEGO Group!

Core Responsibilities

• Leading formulation, technical design and implementation of strategic objectives.
• Providing technical leadership across product domains to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions
• Formulating technical roadmaps and system architecture in collaboration with product teams
• Championing architecture principles and helping product teams secure consistent solution design and reuse of components and services. Apart from ensuring technical excellence, you work with the organization and support implementing the proposed solutions.
• Orchestrating the management of technology scope and risks.
• Building prototypes and creating compelling concepts by being at the front of proof of concepts and innovations.

Play your part in our team succeeding
You will be part of the Infrastructure team in our Digital Technology organization.

The role of the Infrastructure team is providing secure, scalable and modern cloud and Infrastructure services and IT platforms to the digital workforce in the LEGO Group.

We are energized by transformation and a fully digitized future; we believe in self-service and embrace automation; always with the end user in mind striving for “the best” user experiences.

The technology landscape is abstract. We work with variety of technologies and cover a broad field of Infrastructure and platform capabilities and services within e.g. Network, Cloud (AWS/Azure), Edge, Container orchestration, API’s, Event broker, SAP, IAM, AI and a broad suite of tools for developers and other colleagues.

As a technical leader and Principal Engineer, you will be part of shaping the overarching digital system architecture. You will be working with peers and colleagues in other domains to define and implement a robust and flexible digital architecture for the LEGO Group.

Do you have what it takes?
We envision you have a Software Engineering or Computer Scientist background but if you are self-taught and have a lot of cool experience, then show us what you can accomplish with your superpowers.

• Your experience is built from 8-10 years of working in a technical role, e.g., as a staff engineer or an IT solution architect. Min 3 years within similar field of responsibilities including technical leadership.
• Your achievements are based on theoretical and practical knowledge of SW engineering and IT architecture and hands-on experience within relevant competency area. You are passionate about learning and staying on top of new technology insights.
• You have a strategic approach and know how to stay on strategy. You are skilled in organisational change and impact, open to innovative approaches, patient with people and you have superb interpersonal skills.
• You are an excellent problem solver who is not fixed on technology but looks at how to craft the best possible solution together with colleagues. You love a technical challenge and filling in the dots to ensure that all requirements are understood and fulfilled.
• Communication and collaboration are part of your natural superpowers. People look up to you and seek to become as skilled as you are and when you speak, people listen and trust your expert opinion. You love and excel in teaching your skills and approach to others.

Please Note: Location can be based in either Copenhagen or Billund, Denmark but no relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

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.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

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 minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. 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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  • Billund, Denmark
  • København K, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000018549
• Category
  IT, Telecom & Internet