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# Director of Engineering, Customer Data Foundation

- **Company:** LEGO System A\u002FS
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Customer Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Identity and Access Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a2a5ecc684e21ede

## About the Role

* Experience leading engineering in customer data systems or related domains
 * Strong technical depth, particularly in data architectures, data governance and identity management
 * Experience working with commercial marketing teams
 * Experience with event tracking standards across web, app, and engagement products
 * A track record of developing people and building strong engineering cultures
 * Confidence navigating complexity and balancing multiple perspectives to drive progress
 * Familiarity with regulated data environments is beneficial

## Description

You'll guide architecture, platform strategy, and delivery quality, ensuring the solutions we build are robust, scalable, and aligned to long-term needs.

 * Engineering governance and standards
You'll bring structure and clarity to how decisions are made, establishing strong practices and enabling teams to move forward with confidence.

 * Business and technology alignment
You'll partner with stakeholders to translate needs into pragmatic technical approaches, balancing speed, quality, and commercial impact.

 * Developing engineering leaders
You'll coach and support engineering managers and senior engineers, helping them grow into confident, proactive leaders and strengthening the overall capability of the organization.

 * Data platform excellence
You'll contribute to the evolution of data pipelines and platform reliability, helping ensure a strong, scalable foundation that supports continued growth and innovation.

What you'll contribute to

This role sits within a broader leadership structure for the Account, Membership and Personalization Technology group, with clear ownership across strategy and organizational direction. Your focus will be on elevating a critical technical domain, strengthening engineering quality, improving consistency, and ensuring the platform delivers meaningful business value.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys going deep on complex systems, building strong teams, and delivering tangible outcomes in a high-impact space.