Director - Engineering (Identity and Access Management)

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

Are you a seasoned engineering leader looking for exciting challenges? Are you motivated by working with a product which has foundational impact to our LEGO connected ecosystem?

As an engineering leader, you will lead a highly competent and diverse backend engineering team who develop and operate an identity and access management (IAM) platform which serves millions of kids, adults and families.

Core Responsibilities

• Recruit engineering talent and support their continuous development through mentoring and coaching 
• Act as a playing coach, improve product team efficiency and delivery by continuously improvement on architecture design, code quality, development processes and operational efficiencies
• Set the technical direction in collaboration with the team and lead engineer within your capability area and ensure its adoption in your engineering team and with key partners
• Take part in shaping the overall identity vision and strategy in the LEGO group and ensure the execution of tech strategy and business requirements
• Interact with broad internal & external customers and represent LEGO Account in the engineer community 
• Improve product quality by benchmark against IAM industry standard processes

Participate in consumer platform technology leadership team to champion a collaborative engineering culture with focus on dedication and craftmanship.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Consumer Platform Technology department is responsible for delivering a broad set of platform services that powers LEGOs consumer and shopper facing digital experiences. In this role you will be working along side our product teams on our consumer facing identity management system – LEGO Account. You will collaborate with multiple business customers and product managers to support value creation, quality and flow on those teams.

In CPT, we empower autonomous team to make decisions, evolve agile ways of working and support continuous learn & experiment mentality. We create a culture for value-driven development, strong ownership and inspire each other to do the best work of one´s life.

Your qualification

• 3+ years of people management experience
• Demonstratable experience in backend engineering including web security, public cloud, high-level programming language, relational/non-relational database, system integration/migration, architecture/design patterns, platform observability etc.
• Extensive technical knowledge in identity and access management domain 
• Experience working in an agile development team as a tech lead, software architect or similar position
• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills

What we offer

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