Staff Engineer - Identity

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Life & disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

LEGO Group seeks a Staff Engineer - Identity to own cross-domain identity engineering across the LEGO digital ecosystem. You will bridge Principal Engineering and product teams to deliver secure identity outcomes, shaping end-to-end approaches for colleagues and partners.

You will influence technical direction across multiple teams, ensuring identity capabilities align with security and business priorities in a flexible hybrid setup at our Billund campuses.

Qualifications

• Led cross-domain engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams, products, or technology domains.
• Delivered large-scale identity platforms, programs, or transformation initiatives.
• Engineered secure identity solutions with governance and compliance at the core.

Responsibilities

• Own the cross-domain engineering of identity across LEGO's digital ecosystem.
• Guide technical direction and align teams to deliver secure identity outcomes.
• Shape end-to-end approach to colleague and partner identities across platforms.

Skills

Cross-domain leadership

Identity platforms

Governance & compliance

Multi-team alignment

Job description

Job Description Just imagine a connected identity experience that works seamlessly for colleagues, partners, and future digital agents. The strategic drive for this is clear, but can you be part of shaping the details and making it real?

About the role

As our Staff Engineer - Identity, you'll own the cross-domain engineering of identity across the LEGO® digital ecosystem at the LEGO Group. You'll act as a bridge between the Principal Engineering community and the product teams delivering secure, compliant identity outcomes. This role gives you the opportunity to shape the end‑to‑end approach to colleague and partner identities, influence technical direction across multiple teams, and help ensure identity capabilities are ready for future challenges. You'll bring people together around a shared technology vision and help translate strategy into practical engineering outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Led cross‑domain engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams, products, or technology domains.
• Delivered large‑scale identity platforms, programs, or transformation initiatives.
• Engineered secure identity solutions with a strong focus on governance and compliance.
• Directed technical deliveries that required alignment across multiple engineering teams or domains.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied data‑driven approaches to support engineering decisions and prioritization.
• Worked across identity, platform, and architecture domains to shape broader technology outcomes.

What you’ll build

• A clear and connected identity roadmap aligned across multiple product teams and security objectives.
• Strong relationships between engineering teams, stakeholders, and technical leaders.
• Future‑ready approaches to colleague, partner, and emerging agent identities.
• Greater integration between identity services and improved alignment with organizational priorities.

If you’ve worked in a role where you guided technical direction across teams while delivering secure identity outcome at scale, you’ll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to influence technical leaders, connect complex initiatives, and turn strategy into meaningful engineering results.

Life on the team

You’ll join Colleague Enablement within Digital Technology’s Digital Platforms & Infrastructure organization. The team provides foundational platforms used by colleagues every day, creating opportunities to make a broad impact across the business. We work closely together through agile ways of working, regular stand‑ups, and a flexible hybrid rhythm. Strategic thinking, critical thinking, design thinking, problem solving, change agility, storytelling, and constructive collaboration are all part of how we approach our work and support one another’s growth. We are an international team based at the vibrant LEGO® Campus in Billund. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, and flexible – and we have some fun along the road!

What success looks like

Success means creating alignment across identity teams, establishing a clear direction for future identity capabilities, and helping build a thriving community of identity professionals. You’ll work closely with the Colleague Enablement Leadership Team, Principal Engineers, and identity teams across Digital Technology. Over the next 12 to 18 months, you’ll help refine the integration of colleague and partner identities while supporting the organization’s broader technology and security ambitions.

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. #LI-JT1 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.

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. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. Join the LEGO® team today.

We are aware of reports of fraudulent emails and social media messages from individuals falsely claiming to represent the LEGO Group recruitment teams. Please check that recruitment communications are from an official LEGO® email address before responding.

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”.