Build and lead LEGO Digital Play’s data function, setting the strategy for how data is collected, governed and used across the company. Grow a multidisciplinary team across data engineering, BI, analytics, data science and data product.

Responsibilities:

  • Define the data vision and strategy in collaboration with product, engineering, marketing and business leadership.
  • Own the end-to-end data platform, tooling, vendor strategy and budget, including ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, and the warehouse.
  • Set organisation-wide data conventions, including event taxonomy, schemas, data contracts, semantic layers and KPI definitions.
  • Establish privacy-by-design and data governance, including consent, age-appropriate data handling, retention, access controls and data subject rights.
  • Provide self-serve data access, analytics, experimentation and data science capabilities.
  • Deliver reliable, finance-grade product and revenue data, including reconciliation, multi-currency and FX handling, and audit-ready controls.
  • Build user acquisition analytics, including attribution, MMP integration, cohort, LTV and ROAS modelling.

Requirements:

  • Substantial experience leading data platform, data engineering and analytics organisations, including building one from an early stage and leading through other leaders.
  • Deep knowledge of modern data architecture, cloud warehouses, streaming and batch processing, data modelling, semantic layers and data quality.
  • Experience with data governance and privacy regulations such as GDPR and COPPA, and ownership of data infrastructure budgets and vendors.
  • Knowledge of live-game engagement, retention, monetisation and live-ops KPIs; user acquisition analytics; and finance-grade data and reconciliation.

Nice to have: Mobile games or family-audience product experience; Google Cloud data stack (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Looker); experimentation platforms and applied machine learning in production.

Working arrangement: Hybrid, based in the London office with three days per week in the office.