Senior Director, AI Data Platform & Platform Engineering

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance and sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a Senior Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform to lead the engineering organization delivering scalable shared platform capabilities for trusted data services and AI-driven workflows.

You will collaborate with Platform Product Management to ensure platforms are reliable, secure, and widely adopted, enabling innovation through high‑quality engineering execution and governance across product domains.

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services.
• Proven success operating platforms used by multiple product teams.
• Hands-on leadership in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• Deep data platform experience: ingestion, integration, quality, metadata.
• Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production and governance.
• Ability to partner with product leaders to deliver outcomes.
• Track record of hiring and developing high-performing engineers.
• Experience building AI workflow platforms with orchestration and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery for shared platform services used by multiple product domains.
• Translate platform requirements into scalable designs and delivery plans.
• Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and risk assessments to support roadmap decisions.
• Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities to improve data trust and reuse.
• Implement canonical data contracts and APIs with versioning and backward compatibility.
• Implement and operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product-defined standards.
• Ensure production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrails for safe AI workflows.
• Coordinate security controls and governance with InfoSec and SDLC compliance.

Skills

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

SaaS scale

Observability

AI in production

Data governance

Security governance

Team development

AI platform tooling

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a Senior Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform to lead the engineering organization delivering scalable shared platform capabilities for trusted data services and AI-driven workflows.

You will collaborate with Platform Product Management to ensure platforms are reliable, secure, and widely adopted, enabling innovation through high‑quality engineering execution and governance across product domains.