Senior Data Engineer
Job Description
Would you like to focus on building efficient and understandable data products for consumers?
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team based in Billund to help our teams building the next generation Data Platform.
Core Responsibilities
- Design, build and/or configure end-to-end applications through close collaboration with other product team members
- Engineer products to the highest standards of security and data privacy by implementing and following LEGO Group security and data privacy principles from ideation to production release and beyond.
- Engineer products that implement business logic, modern design patterns, architectural principles and follow highest coding standards e.g., documentation and efficiency
- Ensure product robustness and reliability by writing and driving unit and integration tests
- Improve operational efficiency by developing automation tools for daily tasks
- Build efficient and optimal solutions by challenging ideas/opinions
- Suggest and define future stories to support the Product Owner
Play your part in our team succeeding
The overall expectation for a Senior Engineer is to be making consistent meaningful improvements to the product team, championing standard methodologies in their chosen area and taking ownership for the things they do. You should have a Tactical Implementation focus.
Working as a Senior Engineer at The LEGO Group means engineering the backbone of creativity through technology. It's about architecting scalable, robust data pipelines that drive insights, power personalization, and optimize every interaction. By using innovative tools and methodologies, we ensure that data becomes a catalyst for innovation, enabling the seamless collaboration and strategic decision-making that push the boundaries of what's possible. Team works 3 days per week from our Billund Campus.
Do you have what it takes?
- Proficient in modern object-oriented programming languages such as Python and GO
- Knowledge of cloud and the corresponding services and architecture design patterns, like event driven architectures and microservices
- Strive in building high quality REST APIs.
- Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases
- Comfortable working with Scrum
- Knowledge of Software Engineer standard methodologies, e.g. DevOps, CI/CD, unit-testing, security
- Team-player who can also work independently
Nice to have experience with:
- IaC, preferably Terraform
- Databricks or similar data processing platforms.
- Used to mentoring and guiding less experienced engineers
- Writing technical documentation and ADRs
- React and micro-frontends
- Queuing and streaming data with Apache Pulsar
- AWS implementations
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 minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. 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.
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