Senior Data Scientist (10 months)

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund seeks a Senior Data Scientist to shape product decisions in the LEGO Builder app by validating behavioural data and supporting the development of data models.

You will translate insights into actionable recommendations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help measure success with dependable data foundations during a 10-month contract.

Qualifications

• Applied statistical analysis to solve product or business challenges.
• Developed solutions using Python and SQL in a professional environment.
• Built or improved data pipelines or data models that enabled analytical outcomes.
• Translated stakeholder questions into analytical approaches and recommendations.
• Communicated findings through clear data storytelling that informed decisions.
• Worked within agile, multifunctional teams to deliver measurable results.
• Used Databricks or a comparable data platform in a data science environment.
• Developed applications that supported product or business objectives.
• Applied modern development practices such as version control, CI/CD and testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of behavioural data and turn findings into actionable recommendations.
• Support the development of data models and algorithms.
• Help shape the direction of the LEGO Builder app through evidence-based decisions.
• Improve how product success is measured.
• Strengthen the reliability and quality of data foundations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers.

Skills

Applied statistical analysis

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data storytelling

Agile teamwork

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytical reasoning

Decision support

Job description

About the role

Just imagine your insights shaping product decisions in the LEGO® Builder app, strengthening its data foundations, and improving how success is measured.

As our Senior Data Scientist, you'll analyze and validate behavioural data in the LEGO® Builder app, translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations, and support the development of data models and algorithms.

This is a 10-month contract role.

You'll take open questions from stakeholders and product management and turn them into ideas and proposed actions that influence the future direction of the app.

It's an opportunity to use data to drive decisions that improve the experience for millions of builders.

Relocation support is not available for this role.

Required Qualifications

• Applied statistical analysis to solve product or business challenges
• Developed solutions using Python and SQL in a professional environment
• Built or improved data pipelines or data models that enabled analytical outcomes
• Translated stakeholder questions into analytical approaches and recommendations
• Communicated findings through clear data storytelling that informed decisions
• Worked within agile, multifunctional teams to deliver measurable results

Preferred Qualifications

• Used Databricks or a comparable data platform in a data science environment
• Developed applications that supported product or business objectives
• Applied modern development practices such as version control, CI/CD and testing

What you'll build

• Lead analysis of behavioural data and turn findings into actionable recommendations
• Support the development of data models and algorithms
• Help shape the direction of the LEGO Builder app through evidence-based decisions
• Improve how product success is measured
• Strengthen the reliability and quality of data foundations

Life on the team

You'll join a team of Data Scientists, AI Engineers and MLOps Engineers, who work on data science and AI solutions across Innovation Enablement and Consumer areas. You'll primarily be embedded in a cross-functional product team focused on the LEGO Builder app, while remaining connected to a wider competency community.

We spend time together learning, sharing ideas, and helping each other solve challenges. You'll thrive if you enjoy working closely with stakeholders, communicating clearly, and collaborating with others to solve meaningful problems.

What success looks like

Success means becoming a trusted partner who can take open-ended product questions and turn them into insights that shape decisions. Over the coming months, you'll work closely with the Product Manager and the wider product team to improve how data informs the evolution of the LEGO Builder app.

By the end of your assignment, you'll have helped sharpen how success is measured, increased confidence in key data sources, and contributed to product improvements grounded in dependable evidence.

What's in it for you?

• 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.

Additional Information

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.

Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.