Senior Director – Digital Platforms:

Are you passionate about technology, engineering and building a team that can elevate the LEGO Group’s digital platforms and services to the next level?

Bring engineering and leadership expertise to the table. And help craft the way LEGO® workforce uses core digital platforms in their everyday – Join the LEGO® Digital team and have a blast bringing groundbreaking technology to life!

Core Responsibilities

The Digital Platforms teams plays a meaningful role in the everyday life of LEGO® software engineers. Providing a variety of platforms as products with the goal of improving developer happiness and efficiency.

The competence areas in scope are: API Management and its ecosystem, Mobile Development, Design Systems and SAP.

• This delivery responsible role will drive a “product culture” approach. By matching people and their skills to engineering product teams.
• Being a co-leader on technology, architecture and engineering/functional practices as well as supporting product teams.
• Assumes people leadership responsibilities for more technical proficiency areas, including mentor, driving personal development, and staffing.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Digital Technology is a broad engineering and architecture led organization with a shared purpose of using the shared capabilities of our engineers to build outstanding digital products. Based on a decoupled, domain driven architecture. Inside the total organization there are ‘clusters’ passionate about common audiences, architectures, or outcomes. - In this context, Infrastructure is centered around providing infrastructure and digital platform capabilities, experiences, and tools. That enables our engineers and digital product teams to work efficient.

We are energized by transformation a fully digitized future, we believe in self-service, embrace automation, and focus on how to collectively become more efficient; always with the end user in mind striving for “the best” user experience.

The position is based at our brand-new Billund Campus office. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, flexible, and we like to have fun along the way!

Do you have what it takes?

To be successful in this position, you will need to have deep technical knowledge and strong leadership within the competency areas and broad knowledge of all engineering disciplines – while the role does not expect that you can contribute as a hands-on engineer, you are likely to do so or even do it in your spare time.

Strong engineering experience and demonstrable knowledge of building a hard-working engineering team and culture, growing talents, coaching & advising, and leading from behind and underneath the team. An influencer and lighthouse that people want to follow.

Preference for working in and with teams, build strong relationships. Role model in a collaborative environment for teams and individuals enabling them to grow and release their potential.

Ability to operate both strategically and into the details - set the strategic and technical direction within your capability areas and ensure execution and adoption in close collaboration with main partners and technical interest groups and communities.

Natural drive supporting others to benefit from using modern practices and solutions, via the ability to communicate and influence on all levels from senior leadership levels/executive leadership to individual engineers.

Strong passion and commit to developing professional capabilities in the responsibility areas by defining and mastering professional engineering standards and work methodologies and training competency resources.

To succeed in this role, you preferably have competence within the following:

• 5-8 years of experience within similar competence areas and min. 3 years’ experience with a leadership role delivering digital platforms.
• Experience in leading leaders.
• Transformative, bias to action, takes initiative, recognizes, and acts on opportunities.
• Thrives and contributes best to a team setting.

Advanced English (C1) both written and verbally are needed since we are an international gathered organization.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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