Lead Data Engineer

Would you like to bring your data engineering skills into play and drive data engineering for MarTech & AdTech products?
Then we have a match! This is an excellent opportunity for a Lead Data Engineer to inspire the engineering team and to work along both an expert product manager and digital product designer to focus on our data strategy for marketing digital products.
Core Responsibilities

• Be the catalyst for Marketing data governance in collaboration with the Data Office and drive engineering decisions around legal, compliance, consent, taxonomy, ethical requirements etc.
• Ensure cross functional alignment with engineering product teams outside of the Marketing domain to drive commonalities and remove or reduce dependencies.
• Help establish the foundations of marketing data and governance for data product consumption across the marketing organisation.
• Be responsible for a data section and take on the roadmap with your product manager to make sure we get useful insights on our NPS, Consumer Group Tracking, Brand Pulse, Brand Experience, Performance Marketing data and many others.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This role will sit in the Marketing & Channels Technology domain in our LEGO Digital department, whose responsibility covers a wide variety of digital products across marketing planning, activation, and evaluation. Your products will be critical enablers for the Marketing products we activate and the foundation for the future!

You will be working closely with the rest of the marketing organisation around products, experiences, and tools to engage with new and existing users to power their love for the LEGO brand.

The role reports to the Senior Director, Engineering Delivery.

The Lead Data Engineer will play a key role in developing foundational data infrastructure for Marketing Data Strategy.

• Create a common data model around marketing data
• Define, develop, and maintain data infrastructure to gather analytics from multiple data sources within our central data platform
• Monitor and improve the quality and coverage of our marketing data
• Coordinate with other engineers to create reliable, high-quality data products for use in web applications and services
• Demonstrate data engineering standard processes, and guide others to follow them

To succeed in this role, you already have some of the following:

• Significant experience with SQL.
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Luigi, Dagster).
• Experience with ELT / ETL tools for moving and transforming data (e.g. dbt, Apache Spark).
• Experience with data quality and reliability tools (e.g. Great Expectations, Soda).
• Experience creating data products for use in web applications and services.
• Desire to learn, grow, and share knowledge across the team.

Nice to have

• Experience with some of our supporting data platform technologies: Databricks, Collibra.
• Experience with data governance concepts around data management, ownership, and quality.
• Experience deploying data infrastructure on AWS.
• Experience working with analytics data, especially in marketing contexts.

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. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency 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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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