Senior Director, Data & AI Platform Engineering

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Sr Director of Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform to lead the engineering organization delivering shared platform capabilities for trusted data services and AI-driven workflows. You will partner with Platform Product Management to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and broad adoption across product domains.

You will drive production-grade observability, governance, and AI safeguards while aligning with

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems with production operations accountability.
• Reliability discipline (SLOs), observability, and incident management.
• 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.
• Partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes without bottlenecks.
• Proven ability to hire and develop engineering teams, including AI platform engineers.
• Experience building 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.
• 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.
• Implement production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrail mechanisms required for safe AI workflows.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Data platform engineering

AI platform experience

Observability and SRE

Incident management

Leadership of large teams

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Sr Director of Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform to lead the engineering organization delivering shared platform capabilities for trusted data services and AI-driven workflows. You will partner with Platform Product Management to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and broad adoption across product domains.

You will drive production-grade observability, governance, and AI safeguards while aligning with