Tech Lead: Build Secure, Scalable Software (Flexible)

RELX; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RELX is seeking a Technical Lead to balance hands-on software development with leadership through influence, shaping technical direction for a cross-functional squad.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, QE, SRE/Platform teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions while upholding standards for code quality, testing, and observability.

The role emphasizes agile practices, design reviews, and ongoing improvement of CI/CD pipelines and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience leading through influence across design, delivery and operations.
• Strong track record in distributed services or high-throughput applications.
• Proficiency in Agile/Lean practices and test automation.
• Experience with CI/CD and release readiness.
• Proficiency in multiple languages (Java, JS/TS, .NET, Python, C/C++, SQL).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first line of technical escalation for the squad’s services/components.
• Facilitate team ceremonies (refinement, technical grooming, sprint planning, design reviews).
• Translate product objectives into sound technical designs and testable acceptance criteria; decompose epics into stories.
• Design and implement complex features; complete bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Define and uphold Definition of Ready/Done including code quality, automated test coverage, security checks, and observability.
• Establish/maintain CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, and release strategies.
• Drive a pragmatic quality strategy: test pyramid balance, contract tests, data management, environments, and non-functional testing.
• Partner with TIO on SLOs, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident learning

Skills

Leadership by influence

Distributed services

Agile/Lean practices

CI/CD / test automation

Java/JVM

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

SQL

Tools

CI/CD platforms

Containers

Cloud technologies

Observability

Job description

RELX is seeking a Technical Lead to balance hands-on software development with leadership through influence, shaping technical direction for a cross-functional squad.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, QE, SRE/Platform teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions while upholding standards for code quality, testing, and observability.

The role emphasizes agile practices, design reviews, and ongoing improvement of CI/CD pipelines and release readiness.