Job Description
Passionate about streamlining processes, automating tasks, and empowering others through self-service solutions? Eager to eliminate bottlenecks and reinvent workflows for quick, effective outcomes? If putting users at the center of every solution is exciting, the Lead Engineer role in the Network Engineering Platforms team could be the perfect next adventure.
Join a space where innovation crafts the digital backbone of the LEGO Group and helps build something extraordinary—one brilliant idea at a time!
Core Responsibilities
The Lead Engineer will develop and coordinate Objectives and Key Results for the team, ensuring alignment with interpersonal goals and strategic objectives. Being close to our partners, we will inject their needs into our roadmap translating single requests into enterprise-wide services that will contribute to the entire organization.
Sharing and bringing new insights into improvements is an integral part of the role in ensuring that we constantly strive to produce the best possible quality in our products. With the increase in digitization, the Network Engineering Platforms team deliver backend APIs for provisioning new offices, stores or manufacturing lines to allow our user base to make firewall changes or perform mass scaled software maintenance.
- Drive and maintain our core tools that store structures and build configuration for 20.000+ network devices.
- Connect with user groups, understand their need and value cases for new capabilities.
- Drive software architecture that can successfully scale and safely implement thousands of daily changes to an always-on infrastructure.
- Enable our partnering teams to support life-cycle management of network equipment and ease of growing the network.
- Drive speed of delivery through standardization.
Play your part in our team succeeding.
Working in LEGO® Digital Platform & Infrastructure domain is a hugely exciting experience and a superb opportunity to work with groundbreaking front-end technology in a diverse and upbeat engineering team.
The internal network of the LEGO Group is expected to grow 25% by the end of 2026 without growing the engineering teams while maintaining an average change time of less than 1 hour for user generated changes.
The Network & Connectivity sub-domain provides detailed network connectivity to our stores, offices, datacenters, and colleagues around the world. We are responsible for delivering the scale automation engine which keeps 20,000+ devices up to date with the accurate configuration. With an average of 600 daily and automated network changes ranging for port reconfigurations, software maintenance, life-cycle management and deployment of new stores or offices network automation enables key innovation and agility within the LEGO Group.
We are an international team based at the new LEGO Campus in Billund. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, and flexible - and we like to have fun along the way!
Do you have what it takes?
The preferred candidate has some leadership experience leading the technical direction for teams and software engineering development. Strong experience with ITIL process implementations for Change, Problem and Incident management. Together with prioritizing between long-term value and short-term gains and facilitating technical discussions and supporting agency within the team.
To succeed in this role, you ideally already have experience with some of the following:
- Balancing partner concerns with users' requests
- Resolving and building key platform capabilities
- Leading delivery schedules
- Being agile in spirit, having a true passion for technology, using creativity and bravery to solve sophisticated tasks would be a great combination.
- Able to play with LEGO® Bricks during meetings.
Advanced English both written and verbally is a need since we are an international gathered team.
Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodations or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.
Relocation support is not offered for this role.
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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.
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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