Lead Engineer – Privacy & Compliance

Job Description

Are you motivated by translating privacy and compliance principles into technical reality?

Do you want to help shape how The LEGO Group ensures trust, governance, and data protection at scale across our global Data Platform?

We are looking for a Lead Engineer – Privacy & Compliance to join our Data Platform team and play a key role in building and maturing the technical foundation for data protection and regulatory compliance across The LEGO Group’s data ecosystem. You will be based out of our Billund Campus or our Copenhagen Hub - Østergade and act as both a technical expert and strategic partner, ensuring our data systems remain secure, compliant, and fit for purpose in an evolving regulatory landscape.

Please note this role does not offer relocation.

Core Responsibilities

As Lead Engineer – Privacy & Compliance, you will bridge the gap between legal, compliance, and engineering, turning policies into performant and sustainable data platform solutions. You will partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Security, and Product teams to ensure our data foundations and data usage are compliant by design.

Solution Architecture & Engineering:

• Design and evolve platform capabilities that enable privacy and compliance at scale, such as data classification, lineage, retention, consent, and access controls.

• Translate regulatory and policy requirements into technical implementations across the data platform (e.g., GDPR, data localization, and retention policies).

• Ensure data handling, storage, and access patterns follow best practices for compliance, scalability, and performance.

• Collaborate with engineers on implementation details using technologies like PySpark, SQL, and Delta, ensuring performant, reliable, and secure solutions.

Collaboration & Delivery:

• Set the technical direction for the product team and ensure alignment with product strategy and overall platform strategy.

• Ensure solutions the right architecture for applications owned by the product team including feasibility, usability, security, scalability and costs.

• Partner with Product Managers to prioritize and deliver compliance capabilities that support strategic platform goals.

• Support engineering teams in implementing and validating compliance controls within their data products.

• Present solutions and principles clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, aligning stakeholders around common objectives.

Leadership & Mentoring:

• Act as a technical role model within the Privacy & Compliance domain—guiding engineers on how to build compliant-by-design systems.

• Foster an engineering culture focused on responsibility, transparency, and sustainable delivery.

• Contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and drive consistency across teams and domains.

• Mentor engineers to strengthen their understanding of compliance-related engineering principles.

Strategic Contribution

• Shape the long-term strategy for privacy and compliance engineering within the Data Platform.

• Collaborate with other Lead Engineers to ensure alignment across the platform’s architecture and shared capabilities.

• Contribute to building a cohesive, trusted, and auditable data foundation supporting The LEGO Group’s data-driven journey.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Data Office builds and runs The LEGO Group’s central Data Platform and acts as a Centre of Excellence for data intelligence, governance, and AI. By joining us, you will help ensure that trust, compliance, and privacy are built into everything we deliver. Your expertise will enable the company to scale responsibly and confidently while protecting the rights of our customers, employees, and partners.

Do you have what it takes?

You bring a background in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Data Engineering, with hands-on experience designing and building secure and compliant data systems. You are comfortable navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and translating legal or policy language into actionable technical solutions.

Additionally, you have:

• Proven experience building or governing privacy and compliance-related data capabilities.

• Strong understanding of data structures, metadata, and best practices for data governance.

• Experience with distributed data processing (e.g., PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake).

• Excellent communication skills, able to engage confidently with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

• Familiarity with modern data platform concepts (e.g., Unity Catalog, data contracts, lineage).

• Awareness of key regulatory frameworks such as GDPR and data retention obligations.

• Passion for driving best practices, collaboration, and technical excellence.

• Occasional travel to other LEGO Group offices.

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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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