Sr Director, Platform Engineering & Data Platform

RELX Group; Exeter; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is hiring a Senior Director, Platform Engineering to lead the Data Platform and Agentic Platform in Farringdon. You will drive shared platform services, set governance for data contracts, and partner with product leaders to deliver scalable, auditable AI-enabled workflows.

The role focuses on production-grade platforms, safety patterns, and building high‑caliber engineering teams.

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 in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• Deep experience in data platform engineering at scale, incl. ingestion, integration, data quality, metadata, lineage, and secure access controls.
• Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production, incl. evaluation, monitoring, observability, auditability, and guardrails.
• Strong 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, incl. AI platform engineers.
• Experience building internal AI workflow platforms or shared AI platform services, incl. orchestration and production-grade monitoring.
• Familiarity with runtime safety patterns and operating regulated/high-trust systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• We lead engineering delivery for shared platform services and data capabilities consumed by multiple product domains.
• We translate product-defined platform requirements into scalable technical designs and executable delivery plans.
• We provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and delivery risk assessments to support platform roadmap decisions and domain commitments.
• We build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities that improve consistency, trust, and reuse of IP data across domains.
• We implement canonical data contracts and APIs as defined through governance, including versioning and backward compatibility mechanisms.
• We implement and operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product-defined standards and interfaces, including traceability, state handling, and convergence patterns.
• We implement production‑grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrail mechanisms required for safe AI workflows.

Skills

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Data platform engineering

AI in production

Team hiring & development

Cross‑functional partnership

Governance & APIs

Job description

Salary: £45,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements

• We need 12+ years of experience leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services or large-scale SaaS systems with production operations accountability.
• We need demonstrated success building and operating platforms adopted by multiple product teams.
• We need strong hands‑on technical leadership in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• We need deep experience in data platform engineering at scale, including ingestion and integration patterns, data quality enforcement, metadata and lineage, and secure access controls.
• We need experience enabling AI-powered systems in production, including evaluation, monitoring, observability, auditability, and guardrails.
• We need strong ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes without creating bottlenecks.
• We need 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, is advantageous.
• Familiarity with runtime safety patterns and operating regulated or high-trust systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• We lead engineering delivery for shared platform services and data capabilities consumed by multiple product domains.
• We translate product-defined platform requirements into scalable technical designs and executable delivery plans.
• We provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and delivery risk assessments to support platform roadmap decisions and domain commitments.
• We build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities that improve consistency, trust, and reuse of IP data across domains.
• We implement canonical data contracts and APIs as defined through governance, including versioning and backward compatibility mechanisms.
• We implement and operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product-defined standards and interfaces, including traceability, state handling, and convergence patterns.
• We implement production‑grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrail mechanisms required for safe AI workflows.

Technologies

• AI
• Support

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We are LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, and our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Our team supports the development of new technologies and processes that advance humanity by helping customers make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and achieve superior results. This is a full-time Senior Director, Platform Engineering role focused on our Data Platform and Agentic Platform, based in Farringdon. We promote a healthy work/life balance with wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, sabbaticals, and flexible working hours. We also offer country‑specific benefits and are committed to a fair, accessible, and equal‑opportunity hiring process.

last updated 36 week of 2026