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RELX

Principal – Consulting Engineer

RELX

Principal Engineer shaping technical direction and modernizing systems for the global research community. Leading engineering practices and supporting the use of AI to enhance value.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeOxford • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesPythonReactSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Set clear technical direction across teams and support the delivery of shared goals
  • Guide the design of secure, scalable, and resilient services, APIs, and data flows
  • Contribute directly to high-impact work, including system modernisation and risk reduction
  • Coach engineers and strengthen engineering practices such as observability, automation, and incident learning
  • Support teams in using AI-assisted development and production AI patterns where they add real value

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience working at senior, staff, or principal engineer level across multiple teams or domains
  • A track record of influencing technical decisions and supporting change at scale
  • Experience designing and evolving distributed systems, services, and APIs in cloud environments
  • Strong backend engineering experience (for example with Java and Spring Boot), and comfort working in modern product development teams
  • A collaborative approach, with clear communication and thoughtful decision-making around quality, risk, and delivery
  • Event-driven systems and messaging technologies (for example Kafka or SNS/SQS)
  • Frontend development experience, such as React
  • Working in polyglot environments (such as TypeScript or Python)
  • Containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Applying AI or GenAI techniques in production, such as prompting, retrieval workflows, or large language model integrations

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
  • Access to learning platforms and encouragement to book up to 10 days focused learning/development time per year
  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Life assurance
  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Long service awards
  • Save As You Earn share option scheme
  • Travel Season ticket loan
  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
  • RELX Cares 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 via Perks at Work

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaSpring BootReactTypeScriptPythondistributed systemsAPIsevent-driven systemsKafkaKubernetes
Soft Skills
collaborative approachclear communicationthoughtful decision-makinginfluencing technical decisionscoachingsupporting changeengineering practicesrisk managementquality assurancedelivery