Analytics Engineer

Role overview

This position sits within the Markets & Channels commercial analytics space and focuses on strengthening the company’s ability to see and understand commercial performance. The goal is to improve data transparency, support better decision-making, and keep the shopper perspective central to every outcome.

You will combine practical experience with data platforms, retail awareness, and curiosity to help shape a forward-looking data and analytics function that supports digital transformation across commercial teams.

What you will do

• Design, build, orchestrate, and monitor data pipelines that produce reliable data products for one of the three commercial domain pillars.
• Apply CI/CD good practices, data quality controls, validation checks, and performance/cost optimisation to data products.
• Develop and support semantic-layer components such as metric-view pipelines, materialisation, and optimisation.
• Use Unity Catalog governance practices, including schemas, access controls, and metadata tagging, to improve discoverability and compliance.
• Work with the Analytics Interface, Commercial Analytics, and business partners to convert business needs into production-ready AI-enabled data products.
• Promote data literacy across Markets & Channels through guidance, training sessions, drop-ins, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Team up with Analytics Innovation & Automation and Data Office Product colleagues to test and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Work with Shopper & Partner digital product teams to ensure data is captured correctly and published to the LEGO Data Platform (Databricks) in a form suitable for downstream use.
• Advocate for strong data product practices across the team, the wider Markets & Channels organisation, and the broader analytics community.

Team context

The wider department is focused on enabling self-service data products for commercial data consumers and decision-makers. The Analytics Engineering team is responsible for building an AI-ready data foundation that can be trusted by the whole company.

Stakeholders will primarily come from A&I and the commercial organisation, with possible collaboration extending into Data Science, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.

This role is important to the ambition of creating a world-class analytics organisation that can deliver scalable data products, AI-led insights, and decision intelligence.

What you should bring

• Background in analytics engineering, data solutions, data engineering, or a similar data specialist role.
• Strong command of SQL and/or Python, with experience handling large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern data transformation methods.
• Ability to explain technical limits and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• A careful, detail-focused working style with strong adaptability and a results-driven mindset.
• Comfort working independently on major initiatives as part of a cross-functional squad.
• A collaborative approach and a strong team-first mindset.
• A positive, proactive attitude, plus curiosity and confidence to challenge constructively.
• Willingness to travel up to 10 days per year.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written.

Additional information

Applications are assessed on a rolling basis. The employer may change or remove the vacancy at any time, including before any advertised closing date, so early application is encouraged.

What’s offered

• Enhanced family care leave for important life moments.
• Life and disability insurance coverage for all colleagues.
• Wellbeing resources and benefits that support physical and mental health, community, and creativity.
• A generous colleague discount from day one.
• Access to a bonus scheme when goals are met and eligibility requirements are satisfied.
• A hybrid workplace setup with an average of 3 days per week in the office, with the primary workplace assigned at an office, store, or factory location.

Culture and inclusion

The organisation aims to create a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive culture where people feel safe, valued, and included. Equal employment opportunity and equal pay are strongly supported, and applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Child safeguarding

The company is fully committed to children’s rights and child wellbeing worldwide. Where a role involves significant contact with children, shortlisted candidates must complete child safeguarding background screening as a condition of the offer.