Senior Engineering Manager, API Discoverability & Enablement

Job Description

Seeking a technical leader passionate about APIs and event-driven architecture. To serve as Competency Lead for a product team and help drive the development and execution of our API strategy.

Working in LEGO® Digital Platforms & Infrastructure is a hugely exciting experience. A superb opportunity to work with groundbreaking technology in a diverse and great engineering area. We're thrilled to bring our vision of an outstanding Digital Organization to life, and we believe in having fun while doing it!

Core Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineering Manager (SEM) in Digital Platforms, be the line manager to a group of software engineers with a focus on platform engineering of our API Discoverability & Enablement team. Apart from guiding and mentoring these, the SEM will be involved in architecting, designing, building, and operating our products, too. Coach the engineers and work closely with multi-functional teams to identify and prioritize platform features together with our Product Manager and Lead Engineers. Being part in drive the Digital Transformation anchor in our API First strategy.

• Lead engineering practices.
• Drive technical excellence and DevSecOps culture and attitude.
• Ability to lead hands-on as equal team member and Engineer if needed.
• Support Agile Methodologies and Continuous Improvement.
• Recruit and attract diversity and talent and support the growth of the people and teams.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and ensure team members are supported and engaged.

Play Your Part In Our Team Succeeding

The API Discoverability & Enablement team is one of the pillars of our Digital Platforms department. The goal is to build and maintain tools and libraries that can be reused and shared across all our product domains as well as enable engineers across the LEGO Group to adopt our platforms and standard methodologies.

The team is part of our API first strategy; we believe that APIs and Async APIs are the key for enabling business agility and provide the way for truly empowered product teams that can access the data they need when they need it. For this we strive to provide consistent, scalable, and self-service platforms that help the LEGO Group achieve a common API surface and standardized consumption. Our API Management platform is built around open standards and best of breed cloud-native technologies.

We apply platform engineering and product management practices to ensure we build what brings the most value to our customers (the other software engineers) and ensure a close feedback loop.

The team is split between our Billund Campus office and the new LEGO Digital Hub in Copenhagen, offering an exciting, inspiring, and flexible work environment.

Do You Have What It Takes?

The preferred candidate will need to have some leadership experience either as engineering manager, team/tech lead capacity or from mentoring software engineers. A solid technical background (5+ years hands-on software development engineering experience with at least one modern programming language, like Python, Java, C#), with good experience in APIs and Event Driven Architectures.

Come with a good understanding of API management tools and platforms and be comfortable working with a variety of technologies. Strong interest in developing and inspiring others, as they will be responsible for building and leading a team of API engineers. They need to collaborate with multiple partners across organizations and get along with the senior leadership on strategic topics around API adoption.

To succeed in this role, you preferably have competence within the following:

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Preferably experience with Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Proficient in modern technology stacks and architectural patterns like event driven architectures and microservices.
• Hands-on experience in cloud native development and corresponding services as well as architecture build patterns.
• Experienced with CI/CD pipelines and git-based source control as well as container technologies and domain driven design.

Advanced English both written and verbally are needed since we are an international gathered team.

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.

Relocation support is not offered for this role.

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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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