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About the Role
The Director of Engineering provides technology and development leadership for CounselLink, guiding multiple engineering teams responsible for product delivery, platform modernization, architecture, operational quality, and engineering execution. This role partners closely with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative solutions while fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple internal and external engineering teams supporting CounselLink.
- Manage, coach, hire, develop, and retain engineering managers, technical leads, and software engineers.
- Recommend and guide technical strategy across CounselLink product capabilities.
- Partner with Product Management, Architecture, UX, QA, Security, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver product roadmap commitments.
- Ensure enterprise architecture standards, security standards, software development processes, and engineering best practices are followed.
- Guide modernization efforts across AWS, Java services, Solr search, LLM-enabled workflows, MCP integrations, and MCP Apps.
- Use engineering, operational, and delivery metrics to identify risks, improve execution, and support business decisions.
- Lead planning across project scope, budget, resources, timelines, risks, and dependencies.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams building and operating software on AWS.
- Strong background with Java/J2EE or modern Java-based enterprise application development.
- Experience with Apache Solr or similar enterprise search technologies.
- Practical understanding of LLM-based application development, including retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and production readiness.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol, MCP servers, MCP clients, and MCP Apps.
- Strong knowledge of large, complex systems and architectural principles.
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies and modern engineering practices.
- Strong budgeting, planning, communication, change management, and stakeholder management skills.
Salary/Compensations
- $136,100 - $252,800
Benefits
- Appealing working prospect for our people.
- Numerous wellbeing initiatives.
- Shared parental leave.
- Study assistance.
- Sabbaticals.
- Country specific benefits.
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.