Senior Director - Engineering

Job Description

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Are you interested in taking leadership of an area within Creator and AFOL Technology and contributing to our growing ambitions for digital experiences?

Bring your solid leadership experience within software engineering and join a foundational area of the LEGO Group!

• Take on direct responsibility of your department, including people, product teams, technology, budgets and output
• Drive prioritized critical initiatives forward with high attention to continuous value creation
• Participate in a multi-functional leadership team to drive delivery and execution in your area. Work closely with Product and Design to ensure success through your product teams.
• Ensure the design and implementation of coherent and robust architecture that aligns to company direction and principles
• Build a talent pipeline across the area, including individual development, sparring & coaching and performance assessment ensuring motivation and satisfaction
• Facilitate a learning approach in the team by maintaining, developing and sharing insights into key methodologies, approaches and market trends in the industry
• Set your teams up for success, based on investment priorities set in our yearly portfolio process and quarterly value reviews for the relevant product audience(s)
• Achieve cost efficiencies and time savings by developing process improvements

In Creator and AFOL Technology, we are building and operating systems and applications that empower our LEGO design colleagues to create novelty elements and products. As part of our PELM program journey and in response to our growing ambitions for digital consumer experiences, we are reshaping our approach by establishing new systems of record for design master data, elements, and models. This transformation will enable us to provide more efficient tools and insights for our designers. It will also bring our data to downstream applications in marketing, gaming, and digital experiences.

In this role, you will take leadership of teams that support the creation of, managing and exposing core data entities like elements, models and LEGO Sets, including their digital/3D manifestations. You will drive the continued development and expansion of these foundational systems, balancing the immediate need of our business with the long-term strategic direction of the company, ensuring that sound architectural and engineering principles are applied in the process.

• 10+ years of documented experience from a digital software engineering position
• 5+ years of documented experience working as people or team leader in the digital space
• Understanding of agile methodologies and experience working with or on agile development teams
• Experience driving cross team solution architecture from creation to implementation
• Excellent communication, leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution skills

We will also be looking for:

• Delivery focused perspective that value efficient and agile product implementation over process heavy project execution
• Knowledge of -or hands on experience with cloud services and cloud native architecture
• Not foreign to concepts like continuous delivery, DevOps, serverless architecture and domain driven design
• Prior documented experience working with software product development as a product owner, tech lead or similar

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.

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