RELX

Technology Director – Innovation Squads

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Amsterdam • Netherlands

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

SDLC

About the role

  • Lead and support four cross functional Innovation Squads from discovery through adoption
  • Establish and evolve a practical, enterprise ready approach to innovation in ways of working
  • Identify, test, and scale solutions that address real business needs
  • Partner with Product, UX, Technology, STMJ, and Sales teams to ensure alignment and impact
  • Make pragmatic build, buy, or partner decisions to deliver value efficiently
  • Translate experiments into repeatable practices that can be embedded into the enterprise SDLC
  • Ensure innovation activity aligns with architecture, governance, and risk standards
  • Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior leaders and delivery teams
  • Define and track success measures focused on adoption and business outcomes
  • Provide clear, accessible updates and insights to executive stakeholders

Requirements

  • Experience leading or influencing technology delivery in complex, multi team environments
  • Working knowledge of modern software delivery approaches (e.g. Spec driven development, end to end SDLC processes, platforms or similar)
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders
  • Practical understanding of how GenAI and emerging technologies can support people and workflows
  • Ability to assess value, risk, and impact beyond the technology itself
  • Systems thinking, with an understanding of how people, process, technology, and risk connect
  • Evidence led decision making skills, using data, learning, and experimentation
  • Comfort working with ambiguity, change, and evolving priorities
  • Ability to influence and lead change without relying on formal authority
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly and accessibly.
Benefits
  • Work/life balance
  • Well-being initiatives
  • Shared parental leave
  • Study assistance
  • Sabbaticals
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
collaborationinfluencecommunicationleadershipadaptabilityproblem solvingrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingdecision making