Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Digital Platforms

Job Description

Interested in providing technical leadership across product domains to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions? - Then bring your huge theoretical and practical knowledge of SW engineering and IT architecture and come join the LEGO Group!

Core Responsibilities

Our new Software Principal Engineer (PE) will lead formulation, technical design, and implementation of strategic objectives as strong partner to the Head of Infrastructure Digital Platforms. Champion architecture principles and helping product teams secure consistent solution design and reuse of components and services. Apart from ensuring technical excellence, the PE work with the organization and support implementing the proposed solutions.

As a technical leader the PE will play a key role in crafting the overarching digital system architecture and collaborate with peers and colleagues in other domains to define and implement a robust and flexible digital architecture for the LEGO Group.

• Formulating technical roadmaps and system architecture in collaboration with product teams.
• Stage the management of technology scope and risks.
• Building prototypes and crafting compelling concepts by being at the forefront of proof of concepts and innovations.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The role of the Infrastructure Digital Platforms domain, part of the Digital Technology organization, is providing secure, scalable, and modern cloud and infrastructure services and IT platforms to the digital workforce in the LEGO Group.

We find inspiration in transformation and a future that is completely digital. We value self-service and automation, always focusing on providing the best user experiences.

The technology landscape is abstract. We work with a variety of technologies and cover a broad field of infrastructure and platform capabilities and services within e.g. Cloud (AWS/Azure), Edge, Container orchestration, API’s, Event broker, Network, SAP, IAM, Gen AI, and a broad suite of tools for developers and other colleagues.

The role is based in the new LEGO® Digital office in Copenhagen, and we offer an exciting, inspiring, and flexible work environment – and a little fun as well!

Do you have what it takes?

The preferred candidate has a solid background in software engineering or computer science. We wish to see experience built from 8-10 years of working in a technical role, e.g., as a staff engineer or an IT enterprise/solution architect. Preferably a few years within a similar field of responsibilities including deep technical leadership.

Achievements are based on practical and theoretical knowledge of IT solution architecture and hands-on experience with software engineering in relevant proficiency areas.

• Are an excellent problem solver who is not fixed on technology but looks at how to craft the best possible solution together with colleagues.
• Love a technical challenge and filling in the dots to ensure that all requirements are understood and fulfilled.

Communication and collaboration are part of the PE natural superpower. People look up to this role and seek to become as skilled as the PE. People listen and trust the PE's expert opinion. The right candidate loves and excel in teaching own skills and approaches to others.

We expect to see a candidate with a strategic approach and know-how to stay on strategy. And skills in organizational change and impact, open to innovative ways, and patient with people.

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.

Location can be based in either Copenhagen or Billund, Denmark but no relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.