Senior Director, AI Platform & Data Engineering

Devopsroles; Farringdon; Remote; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will partner with Platform Product Management to ensure scalable, reliable, secure platforms adopted across product domains while guiding 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.
• 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

Skills

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Data platform engineering

AI workflow platforms

SaaS

Security controls

Observability

Collaboration with product

Hiring & people development

Job description

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

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