LexisNexis is well regarded as a content and technology partner to the legal industry. With our leadership in generative AI, we have a unique opportunity to drive innovation and transform the legal-tech ecosystem.
This role reports into the CTO, Legal Markets.
As a Distinguished Engineer on the Global Technology team, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence for high-impact capabilities on the Lexis+ platform. You will partner closely with senior engineering, product, data science, and security leaders to solve the hardest technical problems—especially in areas like GenAI-enabled experiences, scalable platform services, reliability, and modernization—while setting a high bar for quality, performance, and responsible innovation.
This role requires a highly resourceful, self-driven individual who leads through influence, deep technical credibility, and pragmatic execution.
Duties and Responsibilities
Technical Vision & Architecture Leadership
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Lead architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems; establish patterns and guardrails for scalable, secure, resilient services.
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Drive modernization of critical components (cloud adoption, microservices evolution, observability, developer productivity), balancing near-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
Engineering Execution & Delivery (Hands-on Influence)
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Lead technical design reviews for major initiatives; ensure designs meet standards for availability, performance, security, privacy, and cost efficiency.
Innovation & Technology Roadmap
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Evaluate emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards to keep Lexis+ at the forefront of legal tech innovation, including GenAI and multi-model approaches where relevant.
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Drive proof-of-concept initiatives, prototyping, and pilots to validate value, feasibility, and risk; inform platform and product roadmaps.
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Establish best practices for responsible AI engineering (quality evaluation, reliability, safety, and governance) in partnership with Data Science, Legal, and Security.
Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration
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Partner with senior leaders across Product, UX, Data Science, Security, and Operations to align technical investments with business priorities and customer outcomes.
Operational Excellence & Reliability
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Define and drive standards for observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, capacity planning, and cost management across key services.
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Use metrics (e.g., DORA, reliability, performance, quality) to identify systemic bottlenecks and drive improvements across teams.
Collaboration & Technical Community Leadership
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Coach senior technical engineers and technical leaders to strengthen design quality, delivery excellence, operational readiness, and engineering craftsmanship.
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Partner across engineering, product, data science, security, and operations on major initiatives and design reviews to ensure solutions meet expectations for scalability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Requirements and Qualifications
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Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, and DevOps practices.
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Strong proficiency in modern development languages and ecosystems (e.g., Java/J2EE, JavaScript, C#, SQL and related frameworks).
Leadership (Influence without Authority)
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
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Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
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.
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