Director of Engineering Practices

Relx Plc; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 111,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier seeks a Director of Engineering Practices to elevate engineering standards across the SDLC in Amsterdam. You will own architecture governance, drive best practices, and embed AI-assisted development into workflows with engineering leadership and product teams.

You will translate complex technical decisions into actionable artifacts, build tooling, and surface risk early while championing scalable, cost-effective solutions across multiple product lines.

Qualifications

• Lead architectural standards and governance across multiple product lines.
• Apply modern software engineering practices and AI-assisted development.
• Translate findings into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Deliver complex projects with cross-functional teams and customers.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to inform standards and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation of practices, workflows, and tooling across SDLC.
• Translate architecture standards into actionable artifacts and workflows.
• Surface architectural and quality risks throughout the SDLC.
• Stay hands-on with AI coding capabilities and code reviews.
• Drive adoption of internal platforms and reusable components.
• Collaborate with Chief Engineer, Embedded Innovation, and Architects.
• Identify and pilot new technologies to improve product development.

Skills

Architectural design

SDLC governance

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Job description

## Director of Engineering PracticesApply: London Wall: Amsterdam: Full time: Posted Today: R119960**Are you passionate about shaping engineering excellence and embedding modern development practices across the software development lifecycle?****Would you enjoy working at the intersection of architecture, innovation, and AI-assisted software development to help engineering teams deliver high-quality solutions at scale?** **About our Team** Our global team support products education electronic health records that introduce students to digital charting and prepare them to document care in today’s modern clinical environment. We have a very stable product that we’ve worked to get to and strive to maintain. Our team values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality. **About the Role** The Director of Engineering Practices plays a key role in improving product development by transforming architecture standards, engineering best practices, and technical strategy into practical tools, workflows, and capabilities embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. Working closely with engineering leadership, architects, innovation teams, and product development teams, you will help drive engineering consistency, quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement across the organization. **Responsibilities:**- Lead the technical implementation of practices, processes, workflows, and tooling that improve product development, partnering with the Chief Engineer, Embedded Innovation team, Technology Architects, and product development teams.- Own the translation of architecture standards, engineering best practices, and guardrails into actionable artifacts, such as tools, plugins, skills, and (agentic) workflows, that can be integrated throughout the SDLC.- Build and maintain the tooling and processes that surface architectural and quality risks throughout the SDLC so issues can be identified and addressed early.- Stay hands-on with the tools, techniques, and AI coding capabilities used across product development, including reviewing code, prototyping, and contributing pull requests where appropriate.- Help product development teams work through complex technical problems to drive cost efficient solutions, escalating to the Chief Engineer or Technology Architects when needed.- Own the technical implementation of decisions and best practices established by the Architecture Board, ensuring they are incorporated throughout the SDLC.- Drive adoption of internal engineering platforms, developer tooling, and reusable components within assigned teams.- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and engineering approaches, and use relevant developments to inform engineering standards and best practices and to pilot improvements to product development workflows. **Requirements:** - Solid knowledge of architectural and software development methodologies, with the ability to apply them in day-to-day practice.- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices and AI-assisted development, including their impact on quality, delivery speed, maintainability, and developer effectiveness.- Ability to quickly comprehend new technologies and translate them into workable tools and processes.- Demonstrated ability to implement technical direction and standards across one or more product lines and cross-functional teams.- Ability to translate technical findings into clear recommendations for engineering leadership.- Strong working knowledge of architectural design and governance practices.- Experience delivering complex projects and working directly with customers or internal stakeholders.- Familiarity with modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted development tools, and their impact on quality, speed, and maintainability.- **Please note: Exceptional global applications will be considered - not for relocation, but to work as appropriate from current location.** **Work in a Way That Works for You**We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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**A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.If performed in NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg), the base pay range is €110,500 - €184,000.**We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click** **here** **to access benefits specific to your location.**We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.**Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. 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