Are you passionate about data and would like to help us to discover deeper insights, make better predictions, or generate relevant product recommendations sound interesting to you?

This is your chance to apply data science in a real business context to contribute to one of the world’s best-loved brands.Are you up for the challenge? Bring your data science capabilities, willingness to learn and readiness to collaborate with your peers in a multinational team!

This role can be based in London, UK or Enfield, USA.

Core Responsibilities

• Data savvy: Be comfortable in querying large datasets, with the ability to help manipulate and construct the right data structures starting with the end in mind. With an eye for data quality to ensure rigour of input data going into models.

• Maintenance: Have a good blend of Data Science with Data Engineering concepts in order to help monitoring and maintaining model production pipelines, supervise and challenge design and implementation of error handling and testing of analytics code.

• Storytelling: Ability to translate data science concepts into business language and distill a storyline out of it

• Data visualization: Work with others to design, deploy and maintain online tools and dashboards to be consumed by different parts of the business

• Data experimentation: Eager to learn and/or challenge existing forecast models and apply innovative machine learning techniques

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO Group needs data science to discover deeper insights, make predictions, or generate recommendations in a rapidly growing Big Data reality, where data science capabilities are essential.

Data Science is all about using scientific methods in a data driven fashion to solve business problems. This will help transform the clock-speed of the organization by enabling insights in near real-time, so that the lead-time to action is as short as possible.

Do you have what it takes?

A background with emphasis on one or more of the following: data science, economics, econometrics, computer science, computer engineering, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative subject area. A PhD is a strong bonus.

Applicants for this role ideally have few years of experience with experience as follows:

• Knowledge of R or Python (R preferred)

• Comfortable in using SQL/HQL (Hadoop, Hive)

• Data visualization, preferably with Tableau and/or Shiny

• Working in agile environments (e.g. SCRUM teams)

• Data science production pipelines (CI/CD experience is a plus)

• Machine Learning and time-series models

Join the global LEGO® team

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to 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.

Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based

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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.