Head of Data Platform
Added 16 Oct · still live
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Salary
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£86,000
Going rate
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This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 1137 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 58% sure that is the right code. LEGO Digital Play is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Likely 1137 (Information technology directors) · 58% match
- Likely 2132 (IT managers) · 23% match
- Likely 2133 (IT business analysts, architects and systems designers) · 11% match
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New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1137 Information technology directors Most likely code | £60,200 | £68,800 | £77,400 | £86,000 |
2132 IT managers Also possible | £38,500 | £44,000 | £49,500 | £55,000 |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Also possible | £38,400 | £43,900 | £49,400 | £54,900 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Position Overview
LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO® brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways. Our mission is to ensure the LEGO brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been. We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans - and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
We are at an early phase of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand. Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
We are looking for a Head of Data Platform to build and lead the data function at LEGO Digital Play. You will be the executive leader of how data is collected, governed and deployed across the company: from the infrastructure and conventions game teams build on, to the reporting, analytics and insight that product, marketing, finance and leadership rely on to make decisions.
You will grow a multidisciplinary team across data engineering, BI, analytics, data science and data product, and develop the leaders within it. You will set the standards that keep data consistent, trustworthy and compliant from source to dashboard, with privacy as a non-negotiable, and designed in from the start. You have built a data organisation from an early stage before, and you are equally at home in an architecture review and in an executive discussion about priorities.
Key Responsibilities
LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO® brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways. Our mission is to ensure the LEGO brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been. We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans - and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
We are at an early phase of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand. Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
We are looking for a Head of Data Platform to build and lead the data function at LEGO Digital Play. You will be the executive leader of how data is collected, governed and deployed across the company: from the infrastructure and conventions game teams build on, to the reporting, analytics and insight that product, marketing, finance and leadership rely on to make decisions.
You will grow a multidisciplinary team across data engineering, BI, analytics, data science and data product, and develop the leaders within it. You will set the standards that keep data consistent, trustworthy and compliant from source to dashboard, with privacy as a non-negotiable, and designed in from the start. You have built a data organisation from an early stage before, and you are equally at home in an architecture review and in an executive discussion about priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the long-term vision and strategy for data across the organisation, collaborating with executive product, engineering, marketing, and business leadership on how data informs product, business and compliance decisions
- Build and lead a multidisciplinary organisation spanning data engineering, BI, data science and data product, hiring and developing its leaders
- Own the data platform end to end, including its tooling and vendor strategy and budget: ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, warehouse, held to clear reliability, freshness and cost targets
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Must Have
- Substantial experience leading data platform, data engineering and analytics organisations, including building one from an early stage
- A track record of leading through other leaders across engineering, BI/analytics and data science disciplines
- Deep technical fluency in modern data architecture (cloud warehouses, streaming and batch processing, data modelling, semantic layers, data quality) and the judgment to evaluate and challenge technical designs
- Experience running data governance and privacy programmes under data protection regulation such as GDPR and COPPA
- Credibility with a data-fluent executive team: able to go deep on player, product, and business performance, and to turn shared priorities into platform and team investments
- Experience in mobile games and platforms specifically
- Experience with products for children or family audiences
- Experience with the Google Cloud data stack (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Looker)
- Experience with experimentation platforms and applied machine learning in production
- Time in a licensed or brand-owned portfolio
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Where this offer sits in the market
Information technology directors (SOC 1137) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~63k in sampleSOC 1137
- Middle half £71,656–119,860
- Median £93,236
- Going rate £86,000
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £60,200–77,400
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. LEGO Digital Play holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 1137 going rate of £86,000. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.