Are you passionate about leading engineering teams while building innovative AI-powered software solutions that solve complex business challenges?
Do you enjoy combining hands-on technical expertise, strategic leadership, and team development to deliver scalable, high-quality products and data-driven solutions?
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
The Lead Software Engineer represents the development team in daily stand-ups, communicating progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines to business and product stakeholders. Responsibilities include refining requirements, managing user story updates, conducting research and analysis, generating data extracts, performing code reviews, and promoting engineering best practices. The role also drives automation and innovation using GitHub Actions, AI-powered chatbots, and intelligent agents to improve development, quality, and operational efficiency. In addition, the Lead provides people leadership through regular one-on-ones, goal setting, coaching, mentoring, development planning, and performance evaluations.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership and people management for a team of software engineers. This role combines software architecture, application development, technical problem-solving, project delivery, and team leadership. The successful candidate will drive engineering excellence, deliver scalable enterprise solutions, and foster a high-performing, collaborative Agile team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex enterprise software systems and applications.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership while mentoring engineers, delegating effectively, and managing direct reports.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, development plans, and scalable software solutions.
- Establish engineering best practices, including code reviews, test-driven development, automated testing, and coding standards.
- Lead the development and integration of AI/ML, Deep Learning, and Generative AI-based solutions.
- Design, develop, and optimize ETL processes, data pipelines, and data integration workflows.
- Manage project plans, schedules, priorities, technical risks, and delivery commitments.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, internal technology teams, and external partners to resolve complex technical challenges.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in software engineering.
- Hands on experience in enterprise Java development and architecture, with proficiency in Python and experience in polyglot environments.
- Hands-on experience with ETL development, data integration, and data pipeline design, implementation, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Strong experience with AI/ML/DL-based systems and Generative AI technologies.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms and toolchains, ideally AWS and Microsoft Azure, with the ability to learn additional platforms.
- Strong knowledge of API-first development, system integration, SQL, query optimization, and complex data modeling.
- Experience with multiple data storage technologies, data quality, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated experience leading software engineers, managing direct reports, and delivering complex technical projects.
- Deliver high-quality, secure, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
- Ensure effective implementation of engineering standards and reliable ETL and data integration solutions.
- Drive successful project execution, technical quality, and timely resolution of complex issues.
- Develop and retain engineering talent while fostering accountability, innovation, and collaboration.
- Align technical decisions and team priorities with business objectives.
- Experience in the insurance industry, particularly across Auto, Property, and Commercial lines, with exposure to Claims and Policy data, would be a plus.
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Skills Required
- Extensive experience in software engineering
- Hands-on experience with enterprise Java development and architecture
- Proficiency in Python and experience in polyglot environments
- Hands-on experience with ETL development, data integration, and data pipeline design, implementation, troubleshooting, and optimization
- Strong experience with AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI systems
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms and toolchains, ideally AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of API-first development, system integration, SQL, query optimization, and complex data modeling
- Experience with multiple data storage technologies, data quality, and performance optimization
- Experience leading software engineers, managing direct reports, and delivering complex technical projects
- Experience in the insurance industry, particularly Auto, Property, and Commercial lines, with Claims and Policy data exposure
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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