Principal Software Engineer — AI/Cloud, Mentoring

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

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.