Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description
Are you technically well rounded and a competent people leader?
Then keep reading and get your application ready!

The Creator and AFOL Technology department is responsible for delivering a broad set of experiences and tools supporting both our internal product design processes as well as our consumer facing experiences for adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs). In this role you will be working with and supporting our product teams on BrickLink. Here we are on a journey of modernizing the foundation of the site to support an ambitious growth journey. You will collaborate with multiple business stakeholders, product managers, designers and leaders to support value creation, quality and flow on those teams.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the Creator and AFOL Technology leadership team and in shaping the culture of a newly formed department.
• Be the competency leader for a group of software engineers working on the BrickLink web portal.
• Participate in the leadership group supporting the digital ambitions of the BrickLink business.
• Organize and run your HR team by enacting leadership activities to foster a motivated, brave and curios engineering capability group with focus on craftmanship and strong performance.
• Recruit engineering talent and support their continued development through mentoring and coaching.
• Set the technical direction within your area and ensure its adoption in your engineering teams and among relevant stakeholders.
• Support a “product culture” mindset by matching people and their skills to product teams.
• Create a structure for and secure execution of knowledge sharing and interest groups.
• Foster a collaborative environment for our product teams enabling them to release their potential.

Requirements

• Significant production level experience from a software engineering organisation.
• Understanding of agile methodologies and experience working with or on agile development teams
• Great communication, leadership and coaching skills
• Solid stakeholder management competencies
• Understanding of security aspects of web based solutions.
• Delivery focused mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience working as people or team lead in the digital space is a plus. Alternatively, with prior experience working with software product development as a product owner, tech lead or similar.
• Value efficient and agile product implementation over process heavy project execution
• Experience with at least one modern, object-oriented programming language, like C#
• Experience working with cloud platforms

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.

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
• Job ID:
  0000022614
• Category
  Digital & IT