RELX

Head of Platforms – Technology, Infrastructure and Operations

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

SDLC

About the role

  • Contribute to the definition and assert the delivery needs related to the platform strategy in line with Elsevier’s policies and standards.
  • Translate strategic objectives (reuse, DevEx, GenAI/automation) into clear plane roadmaps.
  • Establish Elsevier’s "platform as a product" operating model—integrating developer experience, governance, and self-service capabilities.
  • Build and lead a global platform organization across functional planes (Core Platform, Data & AI Services, Observability, Guardrails, etc.).
  • Partner closely with the TIO Strategy Lead, Chief Infrastructure Architect, and Change Management to align operational and cultural changes with delivery models/organizational needs.
  • Oversee delivery of the internal developer portal (Backstage) and golden path standards for onboarding, CI/CD, and observability.
  • Integrate AI assistants, code generation, and AI-augmented testing within the platform to accelerate development and reduce toil.
  • Ensure platform services and related workloads are reliable, observable, and cost-optimized (FinOps and sustainability focus).

Requirements

  • 15+ years in software/platform/operational engineering.
  • Proven success building and operating internal products, platforms or large-scale developer enablement systems.
  • Strong background in “platform as a product,” developer experience, and service ownership models.
  • Track record of growing distributed engineering teams with clear boundaries, autonomy, and accountability.
  • Familiarity with GenAI integration in SDLC and developer workflows.
  • Strong grounding in SRE, observability, FinOps, and secure-by-design engineering.
  • Able to partner across architecture, product, and business teams; comfortable operating at both executive and engineering levels.
Benefits
  • We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.
  • We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.
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Hard Skills & Tools
platform strategydeveloper experienceCI/CDobservabilityGenAI integrationSREFinOpssecure-by-design engineeringcode generationAI-augmented testing
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationaccountabilityautonomystrategic thinkingcommunicationorganizational change managementcross-functional partnershipdelivery managementteam building