RELX

VP Engineering – Academic Leaders & Funders Solutions

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Define and execute an engineering strategy aligned to portfolio and product priorities
  • Evolve the organisation toward an AI-first operating model, improving developer effectiveness and delivery speed
  • Deliver data-centric solutions with embedded intelligence that enhance workflows and decision-making
  • Improve scalability, reliability, and integration across the portfolio
  • Build a high-performing, globally distributed engineering organisation
  • Set and deliver the multi-year engineering roadmap in partnership with product and technology leadership
  • Lead the development of cloud-native SaaS platforms supporting complex, workflow-driven use cases
  • Introduce AI-assisted development practices and tooling to improve speed, quality, and efficiency
  • Drive integration of products, platforms, and data, including post-acquisition alignment and simplification
  • Establish scalable data and platform foundations to support analytics, automation, and future AI use cases
  • Standardize engineering practices, architecture, and tooling across teams to reduce fragmentation
  • Ensure strong governance, security, and regulatory compliance across global markets
  • Partner with product, UX, and commercial teams to deliver end-to-end customer outcomes
  • Build and develop a global engineering organisation, strengthening leadership capability and technical depth
  • Operate effectively in a matrixed environment, influencing senior stakeholders and driving execution

Requirements

  • 15+ years’ experience in software engineering, including senior leadership roles
  • Proven track record delivering complex SaaS platforms at scale
  • Experience embedding AI, data, or automation capabilities into products or engineering workflows
  • Strong background in cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices
  • Demonstrated success leading large, global engineering teams (100+)
  • Ability to translate technical strategy into measurable business and customer outcomes
  • Strong stakeholder leadership across product, data, and commercial functions
  • Experience integrating products, platforms, and data, including through acquisition is desirable
Benefits
  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Life assurance
  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Save As You Earn share option scheme
  • Travel Season ticket loan
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme
  • Optional Dental Insurance
  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
  • RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
  • Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
  • Access to extensive learning and development resources
  • Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringcloud-native architecturesSaaS platformsAI-assisted developmentdata-centric solutionsautomation capabilitiesengineering practicesintegration of productsscalabilityreliability
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementinfluencingcollaborationstrategic thinkingcommunicationteam buildingexecutionorganizational developmentmatrixed environment