Senior Director, AI Data Platform & Shared Services

LexisNexis Legal & Professional group; East Devon; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with Platform Product Management to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure platforms adopted across product domains while driving high-quality engineering execution and governance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems with production operations accountability.
• Proven 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.

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.
• 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

Skills

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Data platform engineering

AI in production

Team hiring & development

SaaS scale

Job description

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

You will collaborate with Platform Product Management to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure platforms adopted across product domains while driving high-quality engineering execution and governance.