Senior Director, Data & Agentic Platform Engineering

RELX; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

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 for trusted data services and AI-driven workflows. Working with Platform Product Management, you will ensure platforms are scalable, reliable, secure, and widely adopted across product domains.

You will drive innovation through high-quality engineering execution, implement governance-driven

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems with production operations accountability.
• Strong hands-on technical leadership with 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.
• Proven ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes without 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.
• Implement security controls, access governance, encryption, and audit requirements in partnership with InfoSec while ensuring enterprise SDLC, vulnerability management, and change management compliance.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Data platform engineering

AI production

SaaS platforms

Incident management

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 for trusted data services and AI-driven workflows. Working with Platform Product Management, you will ensure platforms are scalable, reliable, secure, and widely adopted across product domains.

You will drive innovation through high-quality engineering execution, implement governance-driven