Software Engineering Director – Marketing and Engagement

LEGO Gruppe; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join LEGO as a Software Engineering Director to lead a diverse engineering team focused on marketing activation products. You'll set strategic direction and architecture, enhancing digital transformation. This role requires a proven leader passionate about mentoring, collaboration, and innovation. Benefit from our inclusive culture and commitment to child wellbeing.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Wellbeing Resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in leading engineering teams.
• Experience in fostering an inclusive culture and mentoring others.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and provide clarity on outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering strategy and collaborate with business leaders.
• Craft architectural solutions that support marketing goals.
• Promote a positive developer experience through team collaboration.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Critical Thinking

Mentoring

Collaboration

Job description

Job Description

Join our team as Software Engineering Director! Lead Senior Engineering Managers and Lead Engineers across 5 products in the Marketing Activation domain.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Use innovative technology to support Marketing Activation goals and advance the LEGO Group's digital transformation.
• Craft architectural solutions with ease while nurturing a strong engineering culture that revolves around developer experience, development testing, and team autonomy.
• Collaborate naturally with peers, valuing teamwork for greater outcomes. Lead with credible expertise and well-considered inputs that your peers eagerly embrace.
• Encourage and enable peers, direct reports, and business colleagues to perform at their best. Communicate reasoned, logical, and additive inputs that drive incremental benefits through mentoring or support.
• Encourage team collaboration and independence, promoting a positive developer experience and following development principles.
• Lead with authority on the total cost of ownership for each product team, making strategic investment decisions that achieve portfolio success. Monitor budgets proactively and work with finance partners to articulate clear investment plans to senior leadership.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As the Engineering Director, you will set the engineering and architecture strategy for the Marketing Activation products in collaboration with other technical and product leaders. You will partner with various business leaders to implement enterprise strategies and drive commercial outcomes through robust, scalable, and performant architectural solutions.

Do you have what it takes?

We are looking for a skilled engineering leader with a track record of leading successful engineering teams. Furthermore you:

• Excel in promoting an inclusive and willing-to-take-action culture. Developing talent, mentoring, and empowering others are vital aspects of your daily responsibilities, serving as a guiding light for others.
• Successfully navigating others through ambiguity while providing clarity on architectural and business outcomes will be crucial. Weighing build vs. buy decisions with well-reasoned artifacts is within your remit.
• Outstanding communication skills, showcased through excellent collaborator management and the ability to adjust your communication style for various audiences – from engineers to executive leadership.
• Critical thinking from both tactical and long-term perspectives is essential for leading within your domain. Seeking alignment and collaboration with peers to achieve shared goals is crucial.
• Central to your methodology is a profound comprehension of engineering, enabling you to cultivate trust, empathy, and mutual respect within the engineering community.
• Are dedicated to modern technologies and standard processes in software engineering which will encourage and push architectural approaches, always pursuing the right solution for business value.

Nice to have

• Experience with supplier management that is grounded towards building trusted partnerships, while being detailed on the commercial engagement and statement of work.
• Ability to decide when to use a strategic approach or focus on details for specific goals, being self-aware of situational needs.
• Comfortable interacting with numerous communities with ease, from engineering team to executive level partners – spanning technical detail to executive summary.
• Experience in a global environment, comfortable in leading distributed workforce and remote teams.

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 seeksto 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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