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About The LEGO Group
Based on the iconic LEGO® BRICK, the lego group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of play materials.
Children are our role models and the importance of play has been at the heart of our business ever since 1932 when the company was founded. Their curiosity, creativity, and imagination inspire everything we do.
Position
We are looking for an experienced software engineering leader with a commercial focus who has the skills, experience and passion to build, coach and nurture a large, autonomous engineering and architecture lead set of product teams focused on outcomes over outputs.
Responsibilities
You will be a part of, and lead, a team of 50-75 people in our Marketing and Channels Technology area responsible for the digital products that support our commercial relationships with our customers (resellers of LEGO® products). You will directly lead a team of around 9 Engineering Managers and Lead Engineers as well as the leader of the small digital product design team for the area. You will set the engineering and architecture strategy for these products in conjunction with other engineering leaders in the area and be focused on our enterprise strategies and driving commercial outcomes. Building technology is something that you do with ease while also creating a strong engineering culture where developer experience, test-driven development and empowerment for the team to be autonomous are a few of the critical concepts you need to ensure are flourishing. You will be accountable for ensuring the product engineering teams in this area and across the broader team are setup for success while also being responsible for the delivery of the product roadmaps in the area.
It is important you know how to apply, leverage and drive value from innovative technology in a solution-agnostic fashion to support the digital orchestration of our customer relationships across an ecosystem of products that also have dependencies and links to legacy systems and older technology and architecture patterns. Much of the technology in this area today is a hybrid of legacy applications that are being replaced by built capabilities and experiences.
You will inspire people around you, enabling them and encouraging to do their best work. You are a natural collaborator and see the value in working together for the greater good. People want to hear your opinions as you lead from a position of credible expertise and considered inputs. You are naturally able to give opinions and to share your thinking without dictating, or demanding but rather coaching and supporting.
Your qualification
Do you have what it takes
If you are comfortable building a team from a solid foundation to a new reality, while engaging senior stakeholders and ensuring clarity of technology vision and architecture priorities, then we want to hear from you. From a technology perspective we are iterating towards a microservices architecture with an internal API economy and loosely coupled, bounded product contexts. We are heavily invested in this area in leveraging modern JavaScript-focused front-end frameworks and technologies including Node.js, React and GraphQL as well as configuring and integrating technologies from SaaS providers and SAP enterprise capabilities. You have a deep understanding and are a passionate advocate for modern software engineering best practices and can operate both strategically and in a hands-on fashion.
The key elements we are looking for in your application include:
- Ability to operate both strategically and into the detail – while the role does not expect that you can contribute as a hands-on engineer, you are likely to be able to do so and perhaps have side projects in your spare time as a hobby
- Strong engineering experience and proven experience of building a high-performing engineering team and culture, growing talent, coaching & advising, and leading from behind and underneath the team – not directing from above. An influencer and lighthouse that people want to follow
- Experience growing and developing teams from a simple starting point and re-profiling talent in an existing organisation
- Comfortable interacting with numerous communities with ease, from engineering teams to executive level partners – able to span technical detail to necessary summary
- Strong desire to create an ecosystem of technology capability, lean into internal sourcing and sharing, deeply collaborative and focussed on outcomes, not empires
- Engineer at the core – comfortable either now or in the past in amongst the code as an advisor, coach, or practitioner – it is crucial that trust, empathy and mutual respect can be built with the engineering team and community
- Commercial and connected to why we do things, looking for the best outcomes to serve the LEGO Group and its numerous value streams and strategic ambitions. Able to create a strong vision of where we are going coupled deeply to the needs of our product and business organization
- Can form exceptional and productive relationships across silos and between political boundaries
- A game-changer, brave, curious, and pushing always the extra mile to make amazing digital products a reality
- Globally experienced and comfortable leading remote teams and distributed workforce
- Management of mixed-mode engineering workforce – internal/external – migration between the two, nearshore and partnerships. Comfortable dealing with rapid growth and change in an organizational context as we are building and morphing a lot in this area over the next 2+ years
What we offer
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.
We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
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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