Are you ready to lead high-performing engineering teams and shape the future of legal technology?
Would you enjoy driving technical strategy, innovation, and product excellence in a global organization using advanced AI and technology solutions?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our teams combine deep domain expertise with advanced technology to help legal professionals work more effectively and make better decisions.
About the Role
As Senior Director, Software Engineering, you will provide leadership for large-scale engineering teams while driving technical strategy, innovation, and delivery excellence. You will partner with stakeholders, customers, and engineering leaders to develop resilient teams, advance product strategy, and deliver impactful technology solutions that support business goals.
Responsibilities
- Leading large offshore resources to solve complex business needs
- Developing leaders to build a resilient leadership team, encouraging new ideas from staff to foster improvements through innovations
- Making long or short-term decisions on Product developments as they relate to overall strategy
- Having overall management accountability, including performance management, hiring, and coaching of staff
- Ensuring teams are knowledgeable in the critical aspects of their roles, and providing clear feedback and training opportunities
- Writing advanced complex code for computer systems, acting as a senior source of expertise, performing reviews, and leading development
- Leading Technical strategy and direction, and participating in the development and evolution of architecture
- Working directly with customers and end-users, and providing design input across a product
Requirements
- Have excellent knowledge and experience in project planning and management tools
- Have experience in staff resourcing and management, including partnering and offshoring resourcing models
- Be able to demonstrate excellent organizational skills when dealing with multiple priorities, and be able to think analytically
- Be expert in development languages, including JAVA/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX and .Net
- Be a natural problem solver and able to take a lead in collaborating to resolve issues
- Have excellent communication skills and the ability to convey information clearly to a wide audience
- Be very proficient in database technology, design and manipulation, optimization, and best practice
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $156,700 - $290,900. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of software development experience
- 7+ years of software development leadership experience
- BS in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Advanced degree
- Relevant professional certifications or formal training in digital leadership or enterprise architecture
- Experience with multi-tenant e-commerce platforms and headless storefront architectures
- Experience with cloud-native platform architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern DevSecOps practices
- Expertise in Java/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, and .NET
- Experience with e-commerce platforms (e.g., Magento/Adobe Commerce) and content management systems (traditional and headless)
- Strong proficiency in database technologies, design, manipulation, optimization, and best practices
- Demonstrable experience leveraging AI tools and platforms to build AI-powered customer-facing experiences
- Software development process expertise in agile development methodologies
- Strong budgeting and finance skills
- Experience managing vendor and partner relationships, contracts, and commercial terms
- Ownership of security posture and embedding security-first practices across platforms
- Experience leading and developing large, multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience with Windows and UNIX environments
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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