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LexisNexis Legal and Professional is the legal information division of the RELX group, descended from the pioneering Lexis full-text legal search service launched in 1973. It sells case law and statutory research, practical guidance, drafting and analytics tools to law firms, corporate legal departments, courts and government bodies, and it has embedded generative assistants across those products under the Lexis+ AI name. Headquartered in New York with major operations in Ohio and North Carolina, it competes principally with Thomson Reuters and holds one of the two large English-language legal content archives.

Are you passionate about leading high-performing software engineering teams and delivering scalable, high-quality technology solutions?

Do you enjoy developing talent, shaping technical direction, and collaborating across global teams to drive impactful outcomes?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles.

About the Role

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will provide leadership, direction, and support to software engineers and development teams responsible for delivering high-quality software solutions. You will work closely with development peers, product leaders, project managers, and technical teams to ensure successful delivery across the software development lifecycle while helping to build an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture.

Responsibilities

- Provide leadership, management, direction, and vision to software engineers and development employees, including offshore contractors, consultants, and interns.

- Support, run, and drive change activities across the software development lifecycle.

- Collaborate closely with development peers, product leaders, project managers, and other software development teams.

- Direct the successful completion and delivery of software components and related deliverables.

- Report project and team progress to senior management.

- Support talent identification, development, and succession planning activities.

- Define resource requirements and support resource allocation planning.

- Contribute to department budget oversight and operational planning.

Requirements

- Software development experience with demonstrated technical expertise including experience managing software engineering teams.

- Expertise and proven experience in various staffing and resource models.

- Strong proficiency in database technology, design and manipulation, optimization, and best practices.

- Knowledge of normalized and dimensional data modeling principles and their application to complex business needs.

- Expertise in techniques for design and code reviews of offshore technical proposals.

- Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

- Experience guiding technical teams through delivery and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Understand how AI is transforming software engineering and how AI tools can improve engineering productivity across activities such as coding, testing, requirements generation and prototyping.

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

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.

We 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.

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