Senior Software Engineer - Data Migration

the LEGO Group; København; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life & Disability Insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid working

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Data Migration to drive adoption of the LEGO Data Platform and enable self-service data engineering across product teams. You will blend hands-on development with mentoring to accelerate migration from legacy systems.

In this role you’ll design pipelines with Python/SQL, work with Databricks or Snowflake, and leverage Spark or PySpark for large-scale processing. Excellent English communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with Python and SQL, including designing and maintaining data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform such as Databricks or Snowflake, and with Apache Spark or PySpark for large-scale processing.
• Solid experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure), including storage, access control and deployment.
• Strong engineering practice: version control with Github or Azure DevOps, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines you have built or improved.
• Experience designing data models and handling schema changes, data quality and error recovery.
• Mentored engineers in data and software engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration of legacy systems to the LEGO Data Platform.
• Build scalable, high-quality data solutions across business areas.
• Create reusable solutions and sustainable engineering practices.
• Enable teams to use platform capabilities with greater autonomy.
• Mentor engineers in data and software engineering practices.
• Collaborate with data engineers, leads, product managers and governance specialists.

Skills

Python

SQL

Databricks

Snowflake

Apache Spark

AWS

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Data modeling

Mentoring

English

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Apache Spark

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Description

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Just imagine helping teams move from legacy technologies to a shared LEGO® Data Platform that supports better decisions across the organisation. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Senior Software Engineer – Data Migration, you’ll drive the adoption of the LEGO Data Platform and help product teams build scalable, high-quality data solutions. You’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical enablement, bringing us closer to self-service data engineering. You’ll also use creativity and artificial intelligence to improve and accelerate migration from legacy systems.

Required Qualifications

• Solid experience with Python and SQL, including designing and maintaining data pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform such as Databricks or Snowflake, and with Apache Spark or PySpark for large-scale processing.

• Solid experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure), including storage, access control and deployment.

• Strong engineering practice: version control with Github or Azure DevOps, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines you have built or improved.

• Experience designing data models and handling schema changes, data quality and error recovery.

• Mentored engineers in data and software engineering practices.

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• Translated business requirements into technical solutions without compromising on quality and compliance of data.
• Engaged collaboratively with colleagues with different backgrounds and skills and adjusted the communication accordingly.

What you’ll build

• Help product teams migrate from legacy technologies to the LEGO Data Platform.
• Solve complex data-engineering challenges across business areas with different levels of technical maturity.
• Create reusable solutions and sustainable engineering practices that improve quality and scalability.
• Create dependable data solutions for business areas with different levels of technical experience.
• Enable teams to use platform capabilities with greater autonomy and confidence.
• Become a trusted technical specialist in the platform architecture and practices endorsed by the Data Office.
• Improve and accelerate migration work with artificial intelligence.

If you’ve worked in a role where you built data solutions with Python, SQL and Databricks or similar tooling, you’ll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to combine sound engineering with mentoring, practical problem-solving and effective work across teams.

Life on the team

You’ll join Data Office, Migration and Delivery. We’re increasing adoption of LEGO Nexus, enabling legacy platforms to be retired and supporting one reliable source of data. The team works with ownership, curiosity and critical thinking through regular stand-ups, planning and knowledge sharing. We value open communication, experimentation and collective problem-solving. Our hybrid rhythm averages three days each week collaborating in the office. You’ll bring critical thinking, curiosity and a growth mindset to a team that values trust, shared ownership and learning together. There’s no fixed mould for how you grow here.

What success looks like

You’ll become confident solving data challenges across varied business areas while helping teams grow more self-sufficient. Over the next 12 to 18 months, we’ll accelerate legacy migrations, improve the developer experience and strengthen data quality, governance and ownership. You’ll work closely with data engineers, technical leads, product managers, business data teams, platform developers and data-governance specialists.

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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.