Head of Data Platform & AI Platform Engineering

Risk Solutions; East Devon; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform to lead the engineering organization delivering shared platform capabilities and trusted data services at scale.

You will guide production-grade AI workflows, partner with Platform Product Management, and drive reliability, security, and adoption across product domains.

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems with production operations accountability
• Demonstrated success building and operating platforms adopted by multiple product teams.
• Strong hands-on technical leadership background in distributed systems and platform engineering
• Deep experience with data platform engineering at scale, including ingestion and integration patterns, data quality enforcement, metadata and lineage, and secure access controls
• Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production, including evaluation, monitoring, observability, auditability, and guardrails
• Strong ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes without creating bottlenecks
• Proven capability to hire and develop high-performing engineering teams, including AI platform engineers
• Experience building Internal AI workflow platforms or shared AI platform services, including orchestration and production-grade monitoring; familiarity with runtime safety patterns and operating regulated or high-trust systems is advantageous

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery for shared platform services and data capabilities consumed by multiple product domains
• Translate product-defined platform requirements into scalable technical designs and executable delivery plans
• Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and delivery risk assessments to support platform roadmap decisions and domain commitments
• Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities that improve consistency, trust, and reuse of IP data across domains
• Implement canonical data contracts and APIs as defined through governance, including versioning and backward compatibility mechanisms
• Implement and operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product-defined standards and interfaces, including traceability, state handling, and convergence patterns
• Implement production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrail mechanisms required for safe AI workflows

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform to lead the engineering organization delivering shared platform capabilities and trusted data services at scale.

You will guide production-grade AI workflows, partner with Platform Product Management, and drive reliability, security, and adoption across product domains.