Lead Analytics Engineer

Job Description

Are you interested in being a people leader and key contributor in enabling our Markets & Channels organization to understand its commercial impact deeply and expand data transparency to drive data driven decisions that always put the shopper first

Bring your understanding of data platforms together with your leadership skills retail knowledge and natural curiosity into play in this role to be part of a pioneering data and analytics team bringing digital transformation to life in our commercial areas!

Core Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5 Analytics Engineers & Associate Analytics Engineers heading up the Analytics Engineering Delivery sub-team in M&C Analytics Engineering.

• Collaborate closely with the Analytics Interface Commercial Analytics and business teams to turn business requirements into a AI-enabling data product backlog.

• Partner with the Analytics Innovation & Automation and Data Office Product teams to create and deliver the roadmap for prototyping & delivering cutting edge features across the Data Platform; ensure platforms tools & processes meet business needs.

• Responsible for the overall delivery of data products across all Commercial pillars; ensuring Data Products follow CI/CD best practice adhere to data quality
  frameworks; including assertion checks and having performance & cost
  optimisation applied.

• Drive Unity Catalog governance (schemas access metadata tagging) to improve
  data accessibility in highly controlled compliant environment

• Coach team to enable Markets & Channels specific data understanding and
  champion data literacy via guidelines training drop-in sessions documentation and knowledge sharing.

• Drive the Commercial data availability agenda; collaborating with Shopper & Partner
  (D2C & B2B) digital product teams to ensure high quality data is collected and published to LEGO Data Platform (Databricks) to a standard fit for purpose for
  downstream delivery of data products.

• Consistently champion & revise best practices in data product development within the team across Markets & Channels and with the broader analytics community helping ensure data integrity -quality and -scalability of overall data products on the LEGO Data Platform.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The overall departments key focus is to enable self-service data products for Markets & Channels (Commercial) data consumers and decision makers; helping shape data-driven actions both for operational optimisation purposes and tactical and strategical decision recommendations.

Within this mandate the Analytics Engineering teams responsibility is to build an AI-enabled data foundation the entire company can rely on.

The Analytics Engineering delivery team consists of the more junior Engineers requiring more technical coaching and guidance.

The key stakeholders of this role will be focused on our A&I and broader Commercial organisation but have potential to expand to be multifunctional in areas such as Data Science Marketing Finance Operations etc.

This role is essential as we strive to build a world-class analytics organization capable of delivering scalable data products AI-driven insights and real decision intelligence.

Do you have what it takes

• Considerable Analytics Engineering Data Solutions Data Engineering and/or Data Specialist experience.

• Proven leadership experience within a technical team or project.

• Expert skills in SQL and/or Python or similar experience in manipulating large structured and unstructured datasets.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines Git and knowledge of data transformation and information architecture best practices.

• Can provide technical context and direction translating technical constraints / trade-offs to colleagues within non-technical roles including senior leadership.

• Thorough and detail-oriented strong adaptability and focus to deliver results.

• Strong collaborative personality with a #OneTeam mindset.

• Positive can-do attitude with natural curiosity and bravery to challenge constructively.

• Willing to travel 10 days a year.

• Fluent English skills both verbal and written.

Not essential nice to have!

• Cross-culture understanding of working with global colleagues and partners across multiple time zones.

• Familiarity with AGILE ways of working.

• Strong understanding of Commercial Compliance topics such as Competition Law GDPR and Confidentiality.

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.

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