Data Platform Manager
Job Description
Are you keen to bring your outstanding data platform experience into the LEGO Education team?
Bring your knowledge, experience and your whole self to give LEGO Education by implementing processes to transform collected data and supply into impactful information!
Core Responsibilities
- Provide the ownership and co-ordination for development & release activities
- Operate as a senior custodian of our Data Platform, with performance, security, and data integrity at the forefront of all decisions
- Drive data projects to completion in a timely manner to support key business objectives
- Be an integral part of the analytics team and implement, optimize and maintain our data pipeline
- Identify issues across data sources and ensure data quality checks are implemented
- Ensuring systems and data models meet business specific requirements and are outstanding
Play your part in our team succeeding
The key to success is to build, maintain and ensure a production-ready data environment. This involves implementing the technical processes and business logic to transform collected data into significant and valuable information. This data should meet the vital quality, governance, and compliance considerations for operational and business usage to be considered trustable.
Prepare automated data pipelines to transform and feed the data into dev, QA and production environments and continuously evaluate, compare and improve data pipelines. This includes design pattern innovation, data lifecycle design and data ontology alignment.
The role provides the opportunity to be co-driving our data agenda in close collaboration with the other team members. In addition, given that the role is solely focussed on LEGO Education (separate BU within LEGO Group), you will be exposed to the full value chain of the business and have the benefits of working in an environment with a flat organizational structure.
Do you have what it takes?
You hold a Master of Science or equivalent experience in Engineering or equivalent relevant background.
- Must be proficient in Databricks, Python, Spark, SQL
- 2 years of direct experience with developing and maintaining production data pipeline and workflows
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably at a larger corporation
- Good understanding of AWS cloud environments
- Experiences with data analysis and data modelling
- Proven communication skills
- Takes initiative, recognizes and acts on opportunities
- Great teammate
- Able to work and take decisions independently
- Master English both verbally and written at sophisticated level
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
- Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
- 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.
- Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
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.
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