Consulting/Principal Software Engineer

LexisNexis; London Borough of Islington; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a senior technology leader to drive design, development, and optimization of scalable software and data solutions. You will mentor engineers, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with customers to deliver high-quality products.

You will lead multiple engineering teams, translate architectural direction into practical standards, and contribute to data model design while guiding best practices and innovation in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in C# software development.
• Experience designing and developing API-based solutions.
• Solid cloud experience, particularly AWS, with Azure or other cloud platforms also relevant.
• Experience contributing to software architecture and technical design.
• Ability to translate high-level architectural direction into practical technical standards and solutions.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience.
• Strong adaptability and ability to learn evolving engineering practices.
• Demonstrable AI fluency and use of AI tools in day-to-day software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for 2 teams.
• Provide design input across a product.
• Work directly with customers and end users.
• Serve as go-to person on coding and technical issues.
• Interface with other technical personnel to finalize requirements.
• Write and review detailed specifications for components.
• Complete complex bug fixes.
• Design and work with complex data models.
• Mentor lead developers on consultancy methods and optimization techniques.
• All other duties as assigned.

Skills

C# development

API design

Cloud - AWS

Cloud - Azure

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Adaptability

AI tooling

Job description

Are you passionate about building scalable data platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you enjoy shaping technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering innovative solutions that help customers achieve better outcomes?

About the Team

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each and every day, the work our team does supports the development of new technologies and processes that ultimately advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations and ultimately achieve superior results. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind., As a senior technology leader, you will serve as a key technical authority across multiple engineering teams, driving the design, development, and optimization of complex software and data solutions. You will collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-quality products while providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for 2 teams.
• Provide design input across a product.
• Work directly with customers and end users.
• Serve as acknowledged "go to" person on coding and technical issues.
• Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.
• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.
• Complete complex bug fixes.
• Design and work with complex data models.
• Mentor lead software developers interested in consultancy on development methodologies and optimization techniques.
• All other duties as assigned.

Technical requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in C# software development.
• Strong experience designing and developing API-based solutions.
• Solid cloud technology experience, particularly AWS, with Azure or other cloud platforms also relevant.
• Experience contributing to software architecture and technical design.
• Ability to translate high-level architectural direction into practical technical standards and solutions.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience, with the ability to guide and develop engineering teams.
• Strong adaptability and ability to learn and apply evolving engineering and architectural practices.
• Demonstrable AI fluency, with experience using AI tools as part of day-to-day software engineering work.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.