Software Engineering Lead

RELX; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Country-specific benefits

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Reed Tech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the development and operation of modern SaaS solutions, fostering an AI-first engineering culture. You will combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, helping teams deliver high-quality software, adopt AI-enabled engineering practices, and continuously improve development processes and outcomes.

You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, implement rigorous design reviews, and drive improvements to CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Hands-on delivery of complex production software systems.
• Experience managing direct reports in software engineering.
• Experience using Claude Code or comparable AI coding agents.
• Strong web app experience with C#, .NET, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs and data models.
• Familiarity with Azure, DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and operation of modern SaaS solutions.
• Mentor engineers and manage direct reports; develop talent.
• Set guardrails for AI-generated code and ensure secure coding practices.
• Design and implement web-based SaaS capabilities using C#, .NET, Angular, SQL.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes delivery, and release practices.

Skills

AI-first culture

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cloud-based SaaS

C#, .NET, Angular

Azure

Tools

Claude Code

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Job description

Are you passionate about leading AI-first engineering teams and building modern cloud-based software that creates meaningful impact for customers? Do you enjoy mentoring engineers, shaping technical direction, and delivering secure, scalable solutions while embracing the power of AI-assisted development?

About Our Team

LexisNexis Reed Tech brings clarity to innovation for businesses worldwide. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve a competitive advantage for their business. Our Reed Tech suite of SingleSource™ for Medical Devices, SingleSource™ for Drug Products, and Navigator™ for Drug Labels enables life sciences companies to create product data management strategies and meet compliance deadlines on time. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind. For more information, please visit https://www.reedtech.com/

About The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the development and operation of modern SaaS solutions while fostering an AI-first engineering culture. You will combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, helping teams deliver high-quality software, adopt AI-enabled engineering practices, and continuously improve development processes and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Use Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or other approved AI coding tools to plan, build, refactor, test, debug, review, and document production software.
• Establish practical guardrails for AI-generated code, including repo-level instructions, review standards, secure coding expectations, automated checks, and clear human accountability.
• Guide ideas from discovery and proof of concept through technical design, implementation, validation, release, and continuous improvement.
• Design and implement web-based SaaS capabilities using C#, .NET, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, and modern web architecture patterns.
• Build automated unit, integration, API, contract, and end-to-end tests where appropriate.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, branching and merging strategies, release practices, developer workflows, and containerized delivery with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build secure, resilient, observable Azure services using capabilities such as Key Vault, Application Insights, Service Bus, Application Gateway, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage.
• Manage direct reports through coaching, feedback, development planning, goal setting, performance management, and talent development while raising engineering standards through mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, reusable patterns, and documentation.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience including hands-on delivery of complex, production software systems.
• Experience managing direct reports in a software engineering organization, including hiring, coaching, development planning, performance reviews, retention, and performance management.
• Deep practical experience using Claude Code or comparable AI coding agents, with the ability to use AI across planning, implementation, testing, debugging, review, documentation, and refactoring.
• Strong hands-on experience building production web applications with C#, .NET, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs, data models, services, user interfaces, and background processing.
• Strong familiarity with Azure, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, Docker, Kubernetes, observability, and production operations.
• A track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction, improving engineering practices, and communicating trade-offs clearly across product, engineering, architecture, security, and operations stakeholders.

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

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.

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