Sr Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance and sabbaticals

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with Platform Product Management to ensure platforms are reliable, secure, and widely adopted, enabling innovation through high‑quality engineering execution and governance across product domains.

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading platform engineering teams delivering shared services.
• Proven success operating platforms used by multiple product teams.
• Hands-on leadership in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• Deep data platform experience: ingestion, integration, quality, metadata.
• Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production and governance.
• Ability to partner with product leaders to deliver outcomes.
• Track record of hiring and developing high-performing engineers.
• Experience building AI workflow platforms with orchestration and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery for shared platform services used by multiple product domains.
• Translate platform requirements into scalable designs and delivery plans.
• Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing options, and risk assessments to support roadmap decisions.
• Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities to improve data trust and reuse.
• Implement canonical data contracts and APIs with versioning and backward compatibility.
• Implement and operate agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product-defined standards.
• Ensure production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrails for safe AI workflows.
• Coordinate security controls and governance with InfoSec and SDLC compliance.

Skills

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

SaaS scale

Observability

AI in production

Data governance

Security governance

Team development

AI platform tooling

Job description

About our Team

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each and every day, the work our team does supports the development of new technologies and processes that ultimately advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations and ultimately achieve superior results. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.

About the Role

As Senior Director, Platform Engineering –Data Platform & Agentic Platform, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for delivering and operating shared platform capabilities that enable trusted data services and production‑grade AI‑driven workflows. Working closely with Platform Product Management, you will help ensure platforms are scalable, reliable, secure, and widely adopted across product domains while supporting innovation through high‑quality engineering execution.

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

Requirements

• 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, including reliability discipline (SLOs), observability, and incident management
• 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 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

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. We know your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights. RELX is a global provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.