Engineering Director - Shopper Technology

Job Description

Do you want to be part of our Shopper Technology team at the LEGO Group?

We are looking for an Engineering Director with a highly technical background to lead teams focused on the modernisation of our retail order management platform. 

You will also be responsible for supporting the technical and personal development of our Lead Engineers based in Copenhagen.

Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance.

Core Responsibilities

You’ll spend your time leading our teams focused on modernising the platform at the core of our shopper technology platform serving LEGO.com and our retail stores around the world. You will:

• Be responsible for the technical migration of our SAP-based retail order management platform to a modern event-driven architecture
• Actively lead engineering strategy for a critical area of Shopper Technology focused on both current requirements and long-term direction
• Proactively sponsor and mentor our most senior engineers across an area.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working closely with Product Leaders and Lead Engineers and supported by our Principal Engineers, our Engineering Directors play a key role in the team providing guidance and supporting the team to make critical technical decisions as well as taking accountability for engineering delivery.

Do you have what it takes?

• Significant experience of leading teams responsible for operating business critical, high availability platforms 
• A track record of planning and migrating capabilities from business critical applications to modern event-driven architectures without impacting business availability
• Significant experience working with retail order management systems and processes
• People leadership experience including managing performance and development of impactful software engineers at senior levels
• Experience working with and supporting other members of engineering leadership teams including Engineering Managers and Lead Engineers
• Experience working with technical and commercial partners outside of your own team including third party and offshore vendors
• Have a deep understanding and are a passionate advocate for modern software engineering best practices.
• Lead by example to create a safe and inclusive team culture

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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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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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