Senior Data Platform Engineer: Lead Data & Privacy

LEGO Digital Play; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LEGO Digital Play is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale data infrastructure, turning high-volume event data into reliable, compliant insights for product decisions, analytics, and governance.

You will lead a data engineering team, own the data platform roadmap, and collaborate with security and compliance to meet GDPR/COPPA requirements while balancing reliability and cost.

Qualifications

• Extensive production-grade pipelines experience at scale.
• Led data or software engineering teams.
• Strong SQL and dimensional data modelling.
• Privacy by design and data protection knowledge.
• Python or TypeScript for pipelines.
• Experience with dbt, Dataform, Airflow, Dagster.
• Clear written communication for schemas and docs.
• Ability to set direction in evolving systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a data engineering team: hire, develop, and set technical direction for the engineers working on the data platform.
• Own the roadmap for data infrastructure, including evaluating and integrating third-party data sources, balancing reliability, privacy, and cost as needs grow.
• Design and oversee batch and streaming pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows that handle high-volume event and telemetry data reliably, idempotently, and cost-effectively, with privacy built in.
• Own data modelling for analytics and reporting, enabling self-serve access for product, compliance, and leadership stakeholders.
• Define event schemas and data contracts with backend engineers, keeping data consistent from source to warehouse.
• Establish data quality monitoring, testing, observability, and documentation practices across the platform.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to meet privacy and data protection requirements such as GDPR and COPPA, including retention and access controls.
• Work with infrastructure engineers on cloud deployment, infrastructure-as-code, and cost management for data workloads.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

SQL

Python/TypeScript

Data modelling

Privacy by design

Communication

Tools

dbt

Dataform

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

LEGO Digital Play is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale data infrastructure, turning high-volume event data into reliable, compliant insights for product decisions, analytics, and governance.

You will lead a data engineering team, own the data platform roadmap, and collaborate with security and compliance to meet GDPR/COPPA requirements while balancing reliability and cost.