RELX

Senior Architect – Developer Tooling and Integration

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudJavaSQLTypeScript

About the role

  • Architectural ownership of the applicable capabilities, systems and tooling with a strong focus on AI driven development
  • Provide consultancy, leadership, and promotion of development best practices
  • Provide architecture and design for complex systems
  • Perform technical evaluations of new technology and acquisition candidates as required
  • Present technical proposals and solutions to Senior Management stakeholders
  • Assist in the development of comprehensive information security procedures and practices
  • Respond to enterprise security issues, quickly designing and implementing solutions to respond to security requirements
  • Act as a conduit between Global Architecture (Enterprise Architects) and the Engineering or Development teams
  • Work across/with Architects from different organizations
  • Introduce/train teams with new technology and methods
  • Extract/translate findings into alternatives/solutions, identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making
  • Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews and on-floor leadership
  • Proactively monitor new development to discover subsystems or components that should be evolved into shared capabilities
  • Proactively research, monitor, learn, and assess industry/technology advancements and continually build alliances to explore ways to leverage and advance our technical opportunities

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software development, architecture, or related technical fields
  • Strong understanding of architectural design, governance, and modern AI driven development methods
  • Hands on experience with Git, GitHub, and contemporary coding practices
  • Familiarity with AI assisted development tools and their underlying architectures (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Copilot Studio, MCP Servers, API Gateway, OpenAI platforms, Large Language Models)
  • Experience with agentic development methods and AI driven workflows
  • Working knowledge across several technical areas such as cloud architectures, API design, front end development, TypeScript, Java, SQL, and CI/CD tooling
  • Understanding of DevSecOps principles, including secure toolchains and RBAC
  • Strong problem-solving skills and experience leading teams through complex technical challenges
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to adapt information for different audiences.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive Pension Plan
  • Home, office, or commuting allowance.
  • Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
  • Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Personal Choice budget
  • Internal communities and networks
  • Various employee discounts
  • Recruitment introduction reward
  • Employee Assistance Program (global)
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Hard Skills & Tools
architectural designAI driven developmentGitGitHubTypeScriptJavaSQLCI/CDAPI designcloud architectures
Soft Skills
leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationconsultancyadaptabilitytechnical evaluationtrainingrisk identificationdecision-making