Software Engineering Lead / Applied AI Engineering

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Wall, NJ, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team building AI-powered services for identity, fraud, and behavioral intelligence. Drive architecture, model deployment pipelines, inference APIs, data/feature systems, DevOps/SecOps standards, and partner with Product and ML Research. Hire, mentor, and ensure high-quality delivery, observability, and modern MLOps/LLM practices.
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Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products?

Are you ready for a lead Engineer role?

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk solutions at the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

About the role:
You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering AI-powered services and tools for digital identity, fraud detection, and behavioural intelligence. The role spans technical leadership, delivery management, hands-on architecture, and coaching of engineers in a rapidly evolving AI platform environment.

Responsibilities:

•       Lead and grow a team of full-stack ML engineers, QA engineers, and a UI developer.

•       Define technical direction for AI-enhanced services, internal tools, and platform components.

•       Drive architecture for model deployment pipelines, inference APIs, and data and feature systems.

•       Ensure high-quality delivery across code quality, testing, documentation, and observability.

•       Partner with Product, Architecture, and ML Research teams to prioritise and scope work.

•       Foster a culture of modern AI development practices — LLM tooling, MLOps, automation.

•       Set and enforce DevOps and SecOps standards across the team's services and pipelines.

•       Coordinate cross-team dependencies and contribute to roadmap planning.

•       Support hiring, onboarding, and performance development within the team.

Requirements:

•       7+ years in backend, full-stack, ML engineering, or distributed systems.

•       2+ years in technical leadership, team leadership, or senior mentoring roles.

•       Hands-on experience deploying ML-powered services into production.

•       Strong Python and Java — both are in active use across the team's production services.

•       Experience with Snowflake/Spark/Databricks or others , CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps tooling.

•       Solid understanding of SecOps practices and security-conscious system design.

•       Demonstrable track record of taking initiative and driving work independently.

•       Working knowledge of DevOps and SecOps practices deployment patterns, and security-aware engineering.

•       Broad full-stack curiosity: comfortable picking up work outside your primary discipline when the problem demands it.

PREFERRED

•       Experience building fraud, identity, risk, or security systems.

•       Experience running teams using AI and LLM development tooling and automation.

•       Knowledge of feature stores, model monitoring, or real-time scoring systems.

Working for you:

We offer a range of benefits to support your wellbeing and life outside work, including:

  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

  • Wellbeing programs

  • Life assurance                                  

  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

  • Save As You Earn share option scheme

  • Travel Season ticket loan

  • Electric Vehicle Scheme

  • Optional Dental Insurance

  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

  • Employee Assistance Programme

  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

  • RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

  • Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

  • Access to extensive learning and development resources

  • Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

  • Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here

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Skills Required

  • 7+ years in backend, full-stack, ML engineering, or distributed systems
  • 2+ years in technical leadership, team leadership, or senior mentoring roles
  • Hands-on experience deploying ML-powered services into production
  • Strong Python and Java experience (both actively used in production)
  • Experience with Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, or similar data platforms
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling
  • Solid understanding of SecOps practices and security-conscious system design
  • Demonstrable track record of taking initiative and driving work independently
  • Broad full-stack curiosity; comfortable working outside primary discipline when needed
  • Experience building fraud, identity, risk, or security systems
  • Experience running teams using AI and LLM development tooling and automation
  • Knowledge of feature stores, model monitoring, or real-time scoring systems

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: London
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1880

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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