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Our mission is to help the innovation community make better decisions faster, with greater confidence, combining the world’s most trusted patent data with sophisticated analytics, AI-powered insights, and purpose-built workflows.\nProtégé in PatentSight is LNIP’s next-generation agentic AI assistant, purpose-built for strategic patent analysis. Protégé replaces complex filter-based workflows with natural language questions, surfacing structured, decision-ready insights grounded in trusted data and established metrics.\nAbout the role :\nAs an AI Architect, you will be the technical authority for the AI systems that power Protégé within PatentSight+. You will work across the full stack, from the agentic layer down, ensuring every layer is coherent, scalable, secure, and aligned with RELX Responsible AI standards.\nThis is a senior individual-contributor role with broad influence. You will partner closely with Engineering Leads, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and data teams within LNIP.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDefine and own the AI architecture vision for Protégé in PatentSight+, ensuring technical decisions are coherent, future-proof, and aligned with product strategy.\nEvaluate and recommend AI technologies, modelling approaches, and platform components.\nStay up to date with advances in agentic AI and domain-specific AI research. Translate emerging capabilities into practical architectural recommendations.\nAuthor and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and system design documentation, providing a clear and durable record of technical choices and their rationale.\nArchitect the agentic reasoning systems that enable Protégé to decompose complex patent questions, plan multi-step analyses, and compose insights from multiple data sources.\nDesign retrieval and search architectures that deliver accurate, low-latency patent intelligence across both structured analytics and unstructured text corpora.\nDefine patterns for AI-driven enrichment and classification of patent data at scale, ensuring results are dependable, auditable, and consistent with established IP metrics.\nEstablish prompt engineering standards, evaluation harnesses, and quality frameworks to govern LLM behaviour and maintain output accuracy in production.\nPartner with Product Management to assess technical feasibility and shape the AI roadmap, translating product goals into deliverable system designs.\nCollaborate with Security and Platform teams to ensure AI systems meet enterprise requirements for access control, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.\nEnsure all AI systems comply with RELX Responsible AI Principles.\nLead AI risk assessment activities, contributing to compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks.\nCommunicate complex architectural decisions clearly to senior leadership, engineering teams, and non-technical stakeholders.\nRequirements:\nEssential -\nStrong professional software engineering expertise, with experience in a dedicated AI/ML architecture, principal engineer, or distinguished engineer role.\nProven track record delivering production LLM-based systems, including RAG pipelines, agentic/tool-use frameworks, and multi-step reasoning workflows.\nStrong proficiency in Python for AI service development; working knowledge of C# or equivalent compiled language for enterprise microservice integration.\nHands-on experience with vector databases and semantic search pipeline design.\nExperience with Model Context Protocol (MCP).\nExperience with large-scale data platforms such as Databricks and search engines such as Elasticsearch, in an analytical or AI feature engineering context.\nDemonstrated ability to design enterprise-grade AI systems with strong non-functional requirements: security, privacy, reliability, cost governance, and observability.\nExperience communicating complex architectural decisions through written documents, diagrams, and presentations to diverse audiences.\nDesirable-\nBackground in the intellectual property, legal technology, or scientific information domain; familiarity with patent data structures and classification systems.\nKnowledge of Responsible AI Principles.\nAdvanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.\nExperience designing event-driven, cloud-native architectures using Kafka (or equivalent streaming platforms), including topic design, schema governance, and consumer patterns.\nWhy Join Us?\nJoin our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.\nWork in a way that works for you\nWe 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.\nWorking 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.\nWorking for you\nWe know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:\nGenerous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.\nHealth screening, eye care vouchers, and private medical benefits\nWellbeing programs\nLife assurance\nAccess to a competitive contributory pension scheme\nSave As You Earn share option scheme.\nTravel Season ticket loan.\nElectric Vehicle Scheme\nOptional Dental Insurance\nMaternity, paternity, and shared parental leave\nEmployee Assistance Programme\nAccess to emergency care for both the elderly and children\nRECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you.\nAccess to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.\nAccess to extensive learning and development resources\nAccess to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work\n About the Business\nAt LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), we believe that whenever a person works on a patent and understands the future trajectory of a specific technology, that person has the potential to fundamentally change how society operates. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve superior results. By harnessing the latest advances in machine learning combined with expert analysis, LexisNexis Intellectual Property is disrupting how actionable insight is extracted from patent data. Information can now be accessed with efficiency, accuracy and at a speed that is just not possible by traditional methods. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results.\n\nWe know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Clickhereto access benefits specific to your location.\nWe are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. 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