Senior Platform Director — Data & AI Platform (Flexible Hours)

RELX; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Director to lead Platform Engineering for Data Platform and Agentic Platform. You will drive shared platform services, scalable data capabilities, and trusted AI workflows across product domains, ensuring reliability, security, and adoption.

Strong leadership and collaboration with product teams are essential. You will oversee ingestions, APIs, governance, and production-grade capabilities while partnering with

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems.
• Experience building and operating platforms adopted by multiple product teams with reliability discipline.
• Hands-on technical leadership in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production with observability and guardrails.
• Ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery for shared platform services and data capabilities consumed by multiple product domains.
• Translate platform requirements into scalable designs and delivery plans.
• Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and risk assessments for platform roadmap decisions.
• Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities for IP data across domains.
• Implement data contracts and APIs with governance, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product standards and interfaces.
• Implement production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrails for safe AI workflows.
• Ensure security controls, access governance, encryption, and audits with InfoSec cooperation.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Distributed systems

SaaS platforms

AI workflow platforms

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Director to lead Platform Engineering for Data Platform and Agentic Platform. You will drive shared platform services, scalable data capabilities, and trusted AI workflows across product domains, ensuring reliability, security, and adoption.

Strong leadership and collaboration with product teams are essential. You will oversee ingestions, APIs, governance, and production-grade capabilities while partnering with