Senior Data Engineer

Lego; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the LEGO Group as a Senior Data Engineer and help shape marketing analytics through innovative data solutions. You will develop robust data pipelines and collaborate closely with teams to translate marketing insights into data-driven products. This role offers a chance to work in a dynamic environment with a strong focus on teamwork and problem-solving.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources and benefits

Generous colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Experience with data modeling and transformation workflows.
• Ability to translate marketing needs into structured data products.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable data pipelines for marketing data sources.
• Collaborate with data scientists and marketers to define data requirements.
• Contribute to data architecture and ensure data quality across datasets.

Skills

Data engineering

Data modeling

Collaboration skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Git

Job description

Job Description

Help us build the future of retail at the LEGO Group! We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Marketing Effectiveness Product Team, with a focus on building data solutions that support marketing analytics and measurement.

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure that enables machine learning and analytics use cases such as Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), as well as the deployment of applications that surface insights to marketing end users. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of engineering, data, and marketing intelligence.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines for marketing and media data sources.
• Design and develop data marts to support reporting, modeling and analytics use cases.
• Lead the collaboration with data scientists and marketers to define and implement data requirements.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for the deployment of simple applications.
• Contribute to and drive data quality, documentation and consistency across datasets and sources.
• Contribute to and drive best practices for data architecture, modeling and governance.

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will have the opportunity to work on impactful data initiatives that shape how marketing decisions are made. This role offers a strong mix of technical work, stakeholder collaboration, and problem-solving in a domain where data plays a central role in business outcomes. We are organised in autonomous agile product teams with end-to-end responsibility for our solutions, and we collaborate closely with other teams that drive retail and e-commerce partner strategy and execution for the LEGO Group.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering or a related field
• Extensive experience working with data modeling and transformation workflows
• Experience developing on AWS and Databricks and experience with leveraging infrastructure as code to deploy data infrastructure
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience working with Git, practicing code reviews and branching strategies, CI/CD and testing in software solutions
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark
• Ability to translate marketing needs into well-structured data products
• Deep understanding of data modeling concepts and building scalable data marts
• Basic experience with frontend technologies is a plus and may be needed to help build or support simple frontendcomponents.

Nice to have

• Experience with MMM, attribution modeling or marketing measurement practice.
• Experience working closely with data scientists.
• Understanding of digital ad platforms (Google Ads, CM and DV 360 etc.).

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.

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.

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