Principal Engineer, Data Office

Job Description
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Are you passionate about data proficiency and architecture, data strategy and communication? Then be the one to set direction towards the continued development and deployment of our data strategy - Come join us and have fun along!

Core Responsibilities
This role is passionate about helping the LEGO Group to unlock the value from data. By elevating the Data Proficiency across the organization and delivering a self-service data platform for all data practitioners. This covers a variety of areas from building our analytics data platform and our data visualization and reporting tools, to navigating and guide on data ethics and spearheading innovation through ML and AI. Deep technical and business interpersonal skills are indispensable for this role.

Key areas of responsibility for the Principal Engineer include:

• Leading formulation, technical design, and implementation of high-priority strategic objectives in the Data Office. Current priorities include roll out of our self-service Data Platform, integration with enterprise ERP systems and strengthening of identity governance and authorization model based on Entra ID.
• Formulating the technical roadmap and technology solution design in collaboration with product teams.
• Providing technical leadership across product domains to ensure delivery of outstanding technical solutions.
• Defining a strong, coherent, and long living systems architecture at the LEGO Group as a member of the Principal Engineer community.

Play your part in our team succeeding
The role of the Data Office is to help unlock the value from data, across the LEGO Group. The Data Strategy is about enabling high quality data to flow seamlessly between data producers and data consumers in a Data Marketplace, to drive better and faster data-driven decisions and processes. We are also a Centre of Excellence for data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

We build and deploy self-serve solutions to publish data, analyze data and generate insights - with distributed data ownership and clear roles & responsibilities.

Do you have what it takes?
The preferred Candidate is an outstanding technical leader with experience in data and software engineering, communicator, and collaborator who easily connects and builds trusting relations with people inside and outside the organization. This solid experience may have been gained over some years in a technical role, e.g. as a staff/principal engineer or solution architect.

To succeed in this role, the right Candidates preferably have competence within the following:

• Excellent problem solver who is not fixed on technology but looks at how to craft the best possible solution to the challenge.
• Apart from ensuring technical excellence, also work with the organization to practically implement proposed solutions.
• Love a technical challenge and filling in the dots to ensure that all requirements are specified.
• Being a technical champion - have worked with many different technologies and are passionate about learning and staying on top of new technology insights.

Advanced English both written and verbally are needed since we are working closely with the rest of the LEGO Group.

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

What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• 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.
• Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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
  • Copenhagen, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000015050
• Category
  IT, Telecom & Internet