Are you passionate about leading technical excellence while remaining hands-on in building high-quality software?
Do you enjoy influencing teams, shaping engineering practices, and delivering reliable, secure, and observable solutions in a collaborative environment?
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
As a Technical Lead, you will act as the technical facilitator and engineering leader for a cross-functional squad, balancing hands-on software development with leadership through influence. You will help shape technical direction, guide delivery planning, drive quality strategy, and collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, QE, SRE/Platform teams, and partner squads to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions.
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) with a focus on flow and outcomes
- Translate product objectives into sound technical designs and testable acceptance criteria; decompose epics into implementable stories
- Design and implement complex features; complete complex 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 sensible branching/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
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading through influence (tech lead, feature lead, guild lead, or similar) across design, delivery, and operations
- Strong track record in at least one domain: distributed services, data platforms, or high-throughput web/mobile applications
- Advanced knowledge of Agile/Lean practices including backlog refinement, technical grooming, and risk-based planning
- Experience with test strategy, test automation, CI/CD quality gates, and release readiness
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Java/JVM, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET/C#, Python, C/C++, SQL, Linux, or Windows
- Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, performance tuning, and data modelling
- Knowledge of CI/CD platforms, containers, cloud technologies, observability, and monitoring practices
- Understanding of secure coding, performance optimisation, reliability engineering, and incident response
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.
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Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience leading through influence across design, delivery, and operations
- Strong experience in at least one domain: distributed services, data platforms, or high-throughput web/mobile applications
- Advanced knowledge of Agile and Lean practices, including backlog refinement, technical grooming, and risk-based planning
- Experience with test strategy, test automation, CI/CD quality gates, and release readiness
- Proficiency in one or more of Java/JVM, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET/C#, Python, C/C++, SQL, Linux, or Windows
- Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, performance tuning, and data modeling
- Knowledge of CI/CD platforms, containers, cloud technologies, observability, and monitoring practices
- Understanding of secure coding, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and incident response
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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