Senior Data Engineer - 1 year fixed term contract

About the Team

TheLexisNexis Intellectual Property (IP)division (https://www.lexisnexisip.com) provides international patent content and a suite of online and analytic tools that meet the evolving needs of the intellectual property market. We deliver data to support LexisNexis IP search and analytics applications, empowering our customers with actionable insights and metrics for critical business decisions.

Our corporate culture thrives onexcellence, innovation,and a strong dedication to our customers, employees, and communities. Working here means joining avibrant, diverse, and collaborative teamwhere you are free to grow and contribute actively.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Engineer at LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), you will be designing, building, and maintaining complex data systems to support business needs. Utilizing your expertise, you’ll contribute to maintaining a Data Platform that serves our crucial and critical product. Your role will be critical in ensuring the integrity, security, and accessibility of business-critical data..

At RELX, we are committed to advancing gender diversity within the technology sector and supporting greater representation of women in tech. To further this commitment, RELX has implemented the following initiatives:

Women in Technology (WiT) Mentoring Program: This program is tailored to enhance career development for female talent in tech roles across all our businesses.

Women’s Network Forum: We offer dedicated forums that foster community, mentorship, and professional growth for women.

Inspiring Future Talent: We actively engage with schools, hosting events to inspire young females to consider and pursue careers in technology.

Responsibilities

• Work across our ecosystem of products and Data Platforms.
• Collaborate with technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.
• Develop and maintain data infrastructure supporting real-time data processing.
• Implement scalable data ingestion and pipelines for unified data management.
• Apply development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Design APIs for diverse business units, ensuring efficient data lineage tracking.
• Utilize DataOps principles to enhance system performance and reliability.
• Automate system lifecycle management for robustness and scalability.
• Integrate advanced data engineering techniques and tools to streamline processes.
• Resolve technical issues as necessary.
• Stay updated with new technology developments.

Requirements

• Experience in SQL Server, Data Lake (Azure/AWS).
• Proficiency in Python and Node.js preferred.
• Extensive modern Data Engineering experience.
• Knowledge of large-scale data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) and cloud-native tools (Azure Synapse, RedShift).
• Familiarity with software development methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, and Agile.
• Experience with analytics technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka).
• Test-driven development experience.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of Clickhouse, Druid, PostgreSQL, Databricks, Delta Share & Delta Lake.
• Ability to work with complex Patent and Litigation data models.
• Experience with Pandas & PySpark

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• 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

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.