Staff Engineer - Enterprise Integration & APIs

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 1,000,000 - 1,300,000; 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

The LEGO Group in Billund is seeking a Staff Engineer - Enterprise Integration & APIs to drive SAP integration and API strategy, translating technical direction for multiple product teams. As the first Staff Engineer in the Digital Platforms subdomain, you will shape how the role works with engineering leaders and guide cross-team execution, aligning integration with data and AI initiatives.

This senior role balances architectural leadership with hands-on delivery and is based at our Billund

Qualifications

• Delivered technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Built API management capabilities and standards in complex technology environments.
• Led event streaming and event mesh implementations at scale.
• Shaped enterprise integration strategies, including SAP ecosystems.
• Applied Domain-Driven Design principles across product or platform landscapes.
• Translated technology strategy into practical execution through roadmaps, structured problem-solving and stakeholder collaboration.
• AI-literate and curious about applying AI at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical direction for SAP integration and API strategy across product teams.
• Connect engineering strategy with day-to-day delivery and execution.
• Shape the role of Staff Engineering within Digital Platforms and the wider engineering community.
• Establish and evolve SAP integration and API strategies to support AI and agentic capabilities.
• Align integration approaches with the data platform strategy.
• Define how enterprise data models and APIs work together across the landscape.

Skills

Tech leadership

API management

Event streaming

Enterprise integration

Domain-Driven Design

Roadmaps

AI at scale

Tools

SAP

API gateways

Event mesh platforms

Job description

About the role

As our Staff Engineer - Enterprise Integration & APIs, you'll drive technical direction across SAP integration and API strategy while working with multiple product teams. You'll act as a bridge between Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, and product teams, translating technical strategy in both directions and connecting strategy with execution. As the first Staff Engineer in the Digital Platforms subdomain, you'll play a key role in shaping how the role works alongside engineering leaders and helping define ways of working across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Built API management capabilities and standards in complex technology environments.
• Led event streaming and event mesh implementations at scale.
• Shaped enterprise integration strategies, including SAP ecosystems.
• Applied Domain-Driven Design principles across product or platform landscapes.
• Translated technology strategy into practical execution through roadmaps, structured problem-solving and stakeholder collaboration.
• AI-literate and curious about applying AI at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expanded SAP capabilities beyond integration-focused domains.
• Experience modeling enterprise data models including ontology-based approaches.
• Developed developer experience or platform engineering capabilities.
• Expertise with policy engines or authorization management in general.

What you'll build

• Drive the technical direction for SAP integration and API strategy across product teams.
• Connect engineering strategy with day-to-day delivery and execution.
• Shape the role of Staff Engineering within Digital Platforms and the wider engineering community.
• Establish and evolve SAP integration and API strategies to support AI and agentic capabilities.
• Align integration approaches with the data platform strategy.
• Define how enterprise data models and APIs work together across the landscape.

If you've worked in a role where you've guided technical direction across multiple teams while influencing standards and engineering practices, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to connect long-term strategy with practical delivery and create clarity across complex technical landscapes.

Life on the team

You'll join the Digital Platforms subdomain, where we solve common problems once and build platforms around how digital technology engineers work so teams can move faster with less friction. We work closely together through agile team practices and regular leadership syncs. Our hybrid rhythm helps us stay connected while giving people flexibility in how they work and collaborate. The role is based on our Billund Campus office offering an exciting, inspiring, and flexible work environment.

What success looks like

Success means creating and communicating clearly defined and governed technical guidance across SAP integration and API management. Guidance should be aligned with our strategies for Data, Enterprise Data Model, and AI / Agentic. Over the next 12 to 18 months, you'll help navigate the impact of ERP transformation to S/4HANA while shaping the future integration landscape. You'll work closely with Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, Product Teams, Product Managers, and Engineering Directors to translate technical direction and principals into clear guidance, coordinated roadmaps and aligned deliveries.

Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

This position is Senior Manager Specialist level. Relocation support is not offered.

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.

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.

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".