Data Discovery and Enrichment Expert – SEP Intelligence Lead

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Shared parental leave

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a Senior Data Discovery and Enrichment (DDE) Expert III to independently lead complex data discovery and enrichment projects and guide methodologies, governance, and AI-driven capabilities across IPlytics and Protégé platforms.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science to ensure quality, develop landscape classification, and deliver high-value SEP insights for customers.

Qualifications

• Recognized expertise in Data Discovery and Enrichment with independent project leadership.
• Direct practitioner experience in FRAND licensing, SEP essentiality analysis, or SEP portfolio management.
• Experience with standards bodies and patent ecosystems (e.g., 3GPP/ETSI, IEEE, MPEG).

Responsibilities

• Lead Data Discovery and Enrichment projects for SEP content expansion.
• Define and maintain quality evaluation standards for SEP question classes and AI outputs.
• Publish acceptance criteria for new AI capabilities and participate in sprint planning.
• Create and maintain the evaluation question set used across testing and release governance.
• Calibrate AI outputs against expert judgment and document overrides with traceable reasoning.
• Hold release gate authority for SEP questions to ensure production quality.

Skills

Data Discovery & Enrichment

Taxonomy & classification

Content enrichment

AI governance

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, law, or related field

Job description

About our 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.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Discovery and Enrichment (DDE) Expert III, you will independently lead complex data discovery and enrichment projects and are recognized as a leader in your domain. You will define and implement the methodologies, best practices, and governance that underpin LexisNexis IP Solutions' SEP content expansion, and apply your proven AI experience to guide the development of agentic capabilities across our IPlytics and Protégé platforms.

Responsibilities

• Acts as primary driver of Data Discovery and Enrichment projects and results for SEP and standards-related content, in direct support of LNIP's SEP content expansion
• Define and maintain the quality evaluation standard for SEP question classes — essentiality assessment, royalty range analysis, FRAND exposure, and SEP portfolio intelligence — against which all AI model outputs are measured
• Author acceptance criteria for new AI capabilities before engineering begins; participate in sprint planning as a named quality authority
• Build and maintain the curated evaluation question set used across all automated testing and release governance regimes
• Calibrate automated evaluation systems by reviewing AI outputs against expert judgment and documenting overrides with traceable reasoning
• Hold release gate authority for SEP question classes — AI updates that degrade quality below the defined bar do not proceed to production
• Define and maintain the methodology for SEP landscape construction — including technology scoping, classification logic, and completeness criteria — and deliver bespoke landscape engagements for high-value customer projects; own the quality benchmark against which automated landscape generation will be measured as classification technology matures
• Lead quarterly structured sessions with FRAND practitioners, licensing executives, and patent pool representatives to surface new failure modes and keep evaluation criteria aligned with practitioner expectations
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science teams as a quality authority throughout the product development lifecycle

Requirements

• Recognized expertise in Data Discovery and Enrichment, with a track record of leading taxonomy, classification, or content enrichment projects independently
• Direct practitioner experience in one or more of the following: FRAND licensing or negotiation, technical SEP essentiality analysis, or SEP portfolio management at a patent holder, implementer, law firm, or patent pool
• Working knowledge of one or more major standards bodies and their associated patent ecosystems: 3GPP/ETSI (4G/5G), IEEE (Wi-Fi, Ethernet), MPEG or AOM video codecs, JEDEC, or ITU
• Experience analyzing patent portfolios at scale, not only individual patents
• Ability to articulate technical quality judgments in precise written form suitable for evaluation calibration and governance documentation
• Comfortable working across engineering, product, and legal functions without relying on formal authority
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, law, or a related technical field; or equivalent professional experience

Work in a Way That Works for You

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.

About the Business

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. If performed in any of the following locations: DEU – Home Based – Berlin; DEU Home Based – Merseburg; DEU Home Based – Bad Soden; Germany – Berlin (Leipziger Platz); Germany – Düsseldorf (LexisNexis); Germany – Karlsruhe; Germany – Merseburg; Germany – Bonn; Germany – Kusterdingen; Germany – DUS – Johannstrasse; Home Based – Baden‑Württemberg; Home Based – Bremen; Home Based – Lower Saxony; Home Based – North Rhine‑Westphalia; or Home Based – Rhineland‑Palatinate, the base pay range is €71,600 - €119,400. We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world. Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.