Job Description

Are you an experienced engineering leader who thrives on building strong teams enabling reliable delivery and creating the conditions for engineers to do their best work

Do you want to help shape how The LEGO Group builds governs and scales trusted data products across a modern global Data Platform

We are looking for Senior Engineering Managers to join our Data Platform organisation. We have open roles across multiple platform teams including:

• Data Compliance focusing on data privacy governance and trusted data usage

• Build & Publish focusing on tooling and capabilities for data ingestion transformation and publishing

In these roles you will lead engineering teams working on critical platform capabilities while creating healthy high-performing teams and ensuring predictable high-quality delivery.

*Please note that no relocation support is offered for this position*

Core Responsibilities

• Lead coach and develop a team of engineers with accountability for engagement growth and overall team health

• Create strong team environments with psychological safety sustainable workload and inclusive ways of working

• Drive core people processes such as performance management development planning and recognition

• Support career development through structured feedback coaching and growth conversations

• Own the reliability and predictability of team delivery and translate priorities into executable work

• Partner with Product Managers and Lead Engineers to turn strategy into clear execution plans and backlog outcomes

• Balance delivery with engineering fundamentals such as stability security maintainability and technical debt

• Manage team capacity and remove organisational friction to support sustainable delivery

• Use insights and metrics to support transparency and informed decisions

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Data Office builds and runs The LEGO Groups central Data Platform and acts as a Centre of Excellence for data governance and AI.

You will work in a shared leadership model where Product Managers focus on strategy and roadmap Lead Engineers provide technical leadership and Senior Engineering Managers are accountable for people leadership execution and delivery.

Do you have what it takes

• An experienced engineering leader with a strong track record of leading teams in complex technology environments and driving execution through others

• Strong delivery and execution experience in product or platform environments

• Ability to balance people leadership with operational discipline

• Experience collaborating with Product Managers and technical leaders

• Good communication and stakeholder management skills

• A collaborative leadership style and genuine interest in helping teams succeed

Advanced English both written and verbal would be ideal as we are an internationally gathered team.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

Bring your tech talent and people passion into play and become part of a big IT community and get the chance to spar with other specialists that share interest!

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 youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Whats 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 youll 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 youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team youll 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 seeksto 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 Childrens 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 Childrens Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO team today.