Senior Engineer, Recommender Service

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer based in our London or Billund office and be part of our Recommender Services product team. You will be responsible for designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines and harden and scale machine learning models and algorithms in a Data Science / Engineering product team, responsible for delivering product and content recommendation services to our LEGO.com e-commerce and experience channels.

Come join us!

Core Responsibilities

You will lead the design, integration architecture, and implementation of recommender models and pipelines. Furthermore you will build and automate robust and scalable data ETL and ML model management pipelines as well as data APIs to integrate with downstream consumers. And you will serve as the main point of contact for Data Scientists and Data Analysts and assist to adopt a modern, CI/CD driven software development process. As our Senior Engineer, you are an inspiration for junior colleagues and actively help them to grow as software engineers e.g., through workshops and code reviews and you enjoy actively contribute to data (science) engineering principles on competency team level together with other Senior and Lead Engineers.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Our Data Science Products (DSP) organisation is the home of 50+ data science and engineering colleagues, distributed across our Denmark and UK offices. This team focuses on incubating, developing, and rolling out a broad portfolio of data science, AI and ML products across many different business areas and drive data engineering and architecture excellence.

Do you have what it takes?

Our ideal candidate comes from computer science or other relevant industry experience in software engineering. You might have few years of experience in building data pipelines using modern data processing tools and frameworks and you have a background in building and deploying solutions on AWS or other cloud computing platforms! In addition, you are:

• Proficient in data integration techniques, ETL processes and data pipeline architectures.
• Excellent analytical and problem solver with the ability to identify and resolve complex data-related issues.
• Skilled in software development such as Python and Java/Scala.
• Experienced in designing and deploying complex application architectures using AWS cloud-native components.
• Familiar with data security practices.
• Willing to travel about two weeks per year (3-4 trips).

Nice to have:

• Prior experience working with recommender models.
• Experience / interest in working with the Rust programming language.

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.

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