Are you a collaborative Software Engineering Lead looking to work for a mission driven global organization?
About the role - As Engineering Lead—You will lead and manage a small team of engineers, fostering their growth and ensuring delivery excellence. You will be entrusted with making sure your team is set up for success as they deliver products. This position serves as a subject matter expert for a specific team of Software Engineers. In addition to writing code on complex systems and applications, this position provides direction on project plans, schedules, and methodologies.
About the team, This team supports CK AI Service team. The new Lead Engineer will have six direct reports and will own the technical strategy and execution for the CK AI Service, including the design and governance of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows and API expansion. This role will improve delivery velocity, reduce bottlenecks and single points of failure, drive standardization, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment as the platform matures, and establish a sustainable leadership model to support the planned division and growth of the team.
Requirements
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams, including managing performance, career development, and team health
- Established track record of creating high-performing, collaborative team environments and reducing knowledge silos
- Ability to remove blockers, manage priorities, and improve delivery velocity across a team
- Experience establishing scalable team structures and leadership models to support growth
- Deep expertise in designing and delivering distributed systems and APIs at scale
- Ability to define and execute technical strategies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability
- Experience with microservices architecture, API design, and system integration
- Proven ability to identify and eliminate single points of failure and improve system resilience
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows
- Understanding of:
- LLM integration and orchestration
- Embeddings and vector search
- Retrieval pipelines and ranking strategies
- Experience building AI-powered APIs and services for production environments
- Ability to govern and standardize AI patterns, including evaluation, observability, and performance optimization
Responsibilities
- Managing and mentoring of six direct reports.
- Driving and owning the technical strategy and execution for the CK AI Service, including the design and governance of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows and API expansion.
- Improving the delivery velocity, reducing bottlenecks and single points of failure, driving standardization, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment as the platform matures
- Establishing a sustainable leadership model to support the planned division and growth of the team.
- Collaborating with our Data Science team to help drive product road map and feature design forward.
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Skills Required
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams including performance management and career development
- Track record creating high-performing, collaborative teams and reducing knowledge silos
- Ability to remove blockers, manage priorities, and improve delivery velocity across a team
- Experience establishing scalable team structures and leadership models to support growth
- Deep expertise in designing and delivering distributed systems and APIs at scale
- Ability to define and execute technical strategies balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
- Experience with microservices architecture, API design, and system integration
- Proven ability to identify and eliminate single points of failure and improve system resilience
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows
- Understanding of LLM integration and orchestration
- Experience with embeddings and vector search
- Experience with retrieval pipelines and ranking strategies
- Experience building AI-powered APIs and services for production environments
- Ability to govern and standardize AI patterns, including evaluation, observability, and performance optimization
- Managing and mentoring of six direct reports
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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