Ready to shape the future of enterprise architecture and help solve complex risk and data challenges at scale?
Do you enjoy guiding technical strategy, mentoring engineering teams, and driving innovation across diverse technologies and platforms?
About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
About our Team
Our Enterprise Architecture team serves as a strategic technology partner across multiple products and business domains. The team consists of experienced product architects who provide architectural leadership, drive technology modernization, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards while enabling innovation within their respective product areas. We work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to design scalable solutions, solve complex technical challenges, and accelerate delivery of business outcomes. Given the breadth of our portfolio, we are looking for an architect with strong technical versatility, curiosity, and a hands-on mindset who can quickly learn new domains, collaborate across teams, build proof-of-concepts, and help shape the future direction of our products and platforms.
About the Role
The Architect position provides effective architectural and structural design for the applicable RELX Business Unit. Additional responsibilities include ensuring ongoing development, maintenance, and delivery of technical knowledge and expertise and determining the technical feasibility of development projects.
Responsibilities
- Act as a conduit between Global Architecture (Enterprise Architects) and the Engineering or Development teams.
- Work across/with Architects from different organizations.
- Introduce/train teams with new technology.
- Lead teams toward problem-resolution identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues.
- Evaluate new technologies and their applicability to the business.
- Extract/translate findings into alternatives/solutions, identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.
- Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews and on-floor leadership.
- Actively monitor the Business Unit system health and design and write proposals to remedy the cause of negative trends.
- Proactively monitor new development to discover subsystems or components that should be evolved into shared infrastructure.
- Proactively research, monitor, learn, and assess industry/technology advancements and continually build alliances to explore ways to leverage and advance our technical opportunities.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software, network, or systems engineering
- BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred
- Strong understanding of programming languages, code, and database.
- Expert-level knowledge in programming language(s); e.g., .Net, Java, HTML, Perl, C++, C#, PHP, etc.; or expert level in engineering discipline.
- Expert in a plurality of the following technologies: Parallel and Distributed Processing Systems, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Very Large Scale Databases, Declarative Languages, and High-Performance Computing.
- Solid working knowledge in a plurality of the following areas: Network Design (LAN and WAN), Storage System Architectures, Service-Oriented Architecture technologies, XML and XSLT, and Parallel Processing Architectures (such as SMP and NUMA).
- Experience with a plurality of the following operating systems: Windows Server, UNIX (Linux), and z/OS.
- Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.
- Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.
- Advanced communication (verbal and written), customer service and research skills.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in Chicago, IL, the base pay range is $130,200 - $241,800. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in software, network, or systems engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Advanced degree
- Strong understanding of programming languages, code, and databases
- Expert-level knowledge in one or more programming languages or an engineering discipline
- Expertise in multiple areas including parallel and distributed processing, information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, very large-scale databases, declarative languages, or high-performance computing
- Working knowledge of multiple areas including network design, storage system architectures, service-oriented architecture, XML and XSLT, or parallel processing architectures
- Experience with multiple operating systems, including Windows Server, UNIX or Linux, and z/OS
- Strong organization, project planning, time management, change management, and delegation skills
- Advanced problem-solving experience leading teams through complex technical troubleshooting and solution development
- Advanced verbal and written communication, customer service, and research skills
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills for technical, customer, senior management, and executive audiences
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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What We Do
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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