Are you passionate about shaping technology strategy and guiding the design of scalable, secure software solutions?
Do you enjoy collaborating with senior engineering leaders and influencing architectural direction to deliver long-term business value?
About our Team
RX Global aims to create unforgettable experiences for attendees and exhibitors through organizing events. Innovation, creativity, and collaboration drive the company to offer exceptional services to clients.
About the Role
As a Software Architect, you will provide architectural leadership across the product portfolio, ensuring the delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions. Working closely with Principal Engineers, delivery teams, and enterprise stakeholders, you will guide architectural decisions, promote engineering excellence, and ensure solutions align with business objectives and long-term technology strategy.
Responsibilities
- Deliver scalable, secure and maintainable software architectures aligned to business objectives and technology strategy.
- Define architectural direction and governance to ensure consistency, quality and compliance across products and platforms.
- Ensure solutions meet security, resilience, scalability, performance and operational supportability requirements.
- Reduce technical debt, complexity and technology sprawl through architectural leadership and sound decision-making.
- Enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions through guidance, mentoring and architectural oversight.
- Drive platform simplification, reuse and continuous improvement to improve maintainability and delivery effectiveness.
- Establish architectural health measures and use them to guide optimisation and investment decisions.
- Influence technology strategy, roadmap planning and adoption of emerging technologies to support long-term business success.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering and software architecture roles within complex enterprise environments.
- Proven experience designing and governing large-scale distributed software systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles, patterns and modern architectural practices including microservices, event-driven architecture and domain-driven design.
- Experience defining solution architectures, integration patterns and non-functional requirements for business-critical systems.
- Strong knowledge of API design, systems integration, messaging technologies and distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and modern engineering practices including containerisation, infrastructure-as-code and observability.
- Ability to assess architectural trade-offs and make balanced decisions across business value, technical risk, delivery timelines and operational considerations.
- Strong understanding of security, resilience, identity management, disaster recovery and business continuity.
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
RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organisations. With a presence in 25 countries across 41 industry sectors, RX hosts approximately 350 events annually. RX is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, visit http://www.rxglobal.com.
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Skills Required
- Solid background in software engineering and architecture, with experience on large-scale platforms and global teams
- Strong grasp of architecture principles and patterns (microservices, event-driven) and system design/modelling (UML, C4)
- Proficient in one or more languages such as C#, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with AWS (and/or Azure, GCP) focusing on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Familiarity with DevOps & CI/CD tools like GitHub, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and automated testing and monitoring
- Skilled in data modelling, APIs, messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), and ETL pipelines
- Knowledge of secure design, identity management, and regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR)
- Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate)
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.
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