Are you a technology leader who enjoys building high-performing engineering teams and driving technical strategy at scale?
Do you thrive on solving complex business challenges through innovation, collaboration, and the development of modern software solutions?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).
About the Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead software development teams, guide technical strategy, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions that address complex business needs. You will combine people leadership, technical expertise, and operational excellence to support innovation, drive delivery, and foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Successfully partner and lead large offshore resources in solving complex business needs.
- Complete management responsibilities to include performance management, hiring and coaching of staff, and resource planning.
- Manage system and user acceptance testing cycles to ensure accurate and quality business solutions.
- Lead the development of technical standards, and perform reviews to ensure enterprise and architectural standards and processes are followed.
- Recommend technical strategy and direction across functional area.
- Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.
- Seek diverse ideas and perspectives from a variety of sources to create better solutions, products, and services.
- Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies, procedures, and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Requirements
- Expertise and proven experience in various staffing and resource models.
- Strong proficiency in database technology, design and manipulation, optimization, and best practices.
- Proven knowledge and experience in project planning and management tools to manage project progress, budget, and scope.
- Expertise in industry best practices in offshore partnership development.
- Industrywide or broad companywide technical knowledge.
- Knowledge of large complex systems.
- Proven ability to adapt to new roles and responsibilities.
- Expertise in industry technology language development trends.
- Proven expertise and experience applying industry best practices in all aspects of development.
Expert knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems.
- Strong budgeting and finance skills.
- Proven expertise in the use and development of applicable desktop tool sets.
- Proven expert in partnering and leading internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.
- Strong experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.
- Strong proficiency with data manipulation language including optimization techniques.
- Ability to design and work with complex data models.
- Expertise in development languages including but not limited to: Java/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX, and .Net.
- Knowledge in using and developing applicable tool sets.
- Ability to write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of advanced complexity.
- Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals through the direct management of others.
- 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.
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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Skills Required
- Proven experience leading and partnering with large offshore resources
- Performance management, hiring, coaching of staff, and resource planning
- Manage system and user acceptance testing cycles
- Develop technical standards and perform architecture/standards reviews
- Recommend technical strategy and direction across functional area
- Write and review detailed specifications for system components of moderate/advanced complexity
- Expertise in staffing and resource models (including Managed Services/Staff Augmentation)
- Strong proficiency in database technology, design, manipulation, optimization, and best practices
- Proven knowledge and experience with project planning and management tools
- Expertise in offshore partnership development best practices
- Knowledge of large complex systems and ability to adapt to new roles/responsibilities
- Expert knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems and ability to design complex data models
- Strong budgeting and finance skills
- Proven experience using and developing applicable desktop/tool sets
- Expertise in development languages including Java/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX, and .Net
- Strong organization, project planning, time management, change management, and delegation skills across multiple groups
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.
RELX Insights
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.
