Lead Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Design Data Hub Technology team!
Join us in revolutionizing the digital landscape of LEGO® design, where your leadership will empower creativity on a global scale!

Are you passionate about leading engineering teams to build robust, cloud-native solutions that empower creativity at scale? Do you want to help shape the digital tools used by our designers to create the models loved by kids and adults around the world? If that sounds like you, we invite you to be part of our journey!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

• Lead and design innovative technical solutions in collaboration with the engineering team, product managers, design leads, and business partners.

• Develop, operate, and maintain scalable solutions that balance feature set, security, quality, and urgency.

• Enhance the codebase and system health continuously, ensuring visibility and transparency from development to live environments.

• Uphold exceptional quality standards that reflect the values consumers expect from the LEGO brand.

• Explore and integrate new technologies to advance and optimize our solutions.

• Contribute to cross-organizational initiatives, fostering knowledge sharing and community building.

We are undergoing a major digital transformation of our PLM system, shifting from a monolithic to a distributed architecture. As a Lead Engineer, you will spearhead the development of applications that support the product design phase within this new ecosystem.

This role involves integrating data from our design portfolio, LEGO® elements, models, and building instructions into user-facing applications. These applications are essential tools for hundreds of LEGO® model designers and creative leads, enhancing their workflows and contributing to the models that delight millions.

Your leadership will have a decisive impact on one of the LEGO Group’s most critical digital transformation journeys, while improving the daily operations of our colleagues who design the LEGO® models cherished worldwide.

"To lead the technical part if this product team is to have a decisive impact on one of the LEGO Group’s most critical digital transformation journeys while improving the day-to-day of our colleagues who design the LEGO® models that inspire kids and adults around the globe."

• Extensive software engineering experience with a focus on cloud-native solutions, particularly AWS, software architecture paradigms, and methodologies like TDD and BDD.

• Proven leadership skills as a technical or team lead, with a strong emphasis on mentoring and team development as well as leading end-to-end feature development through modern agile methodologies.

• Proficiency in Python for production software development involving multiple collaborators.

• Solid understanding of web-based solution security and building synchronous/asynchronous APIs.

• Expertise in Domain Driven Design and developing loosely coupled systems.

• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.

• Strong communication skills for leading complex technical discussions and decision-making processes.

• Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical roles, ensuring alignment of solutions

• Experience with continuous delivery, DevOps, serverless architecture and Domain Driven Design

• Experience with C#/.NET Framework

• Experience with Graph databases

• Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript and the React framework

• Working with infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform or the likes)

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.