Architect

Ready to shape the future of enterprise architecture and help solve complex risk and data challenges at scale? Do you enjoy guiding technical strategy, mentoring engineering teams, and driving innovation across diverse technologies and platforms?

Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management.

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Our Enterprise Architecture team serves as a strategic technology partner across multiple products and business domains. The team consists of experienced product architects who provide architectural leadership, drive technology modernization, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards while enabling innovation within their respective product areas. We work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to design scalable solutions, solve complex technical challenges, and accelerate delivery of business outcomes.

Given the breadth of our portfolio, we are looking for an architect with strong technical versatility, curiosity, and a hands‑on mindset who can quickly learn new domains, collaborate across teams, build proof‑of‑concepts, and help shape the future direction of our products and platforms.

The Architect position provides effective architectural and structural design for the applicable RELX Business Unit. Additional responsibilities include ensuring ongoing development, maintenance, and delivery of technical knowledge and expertise and determining the technical feasibility of development projects.

• Act as a conduit between Global Architecture (Enterprise Architects) and the Engineering or Development teams.
• Work across/with Architects from different organizations.
• Introduce/train teams with new technology.
• Lead teams toward problem-resolution identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues.
• Evaluate new technologies and their applicability to the business.
• Extract/translate findings into alternatives/solutions, identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision‑making.
• Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews and on‑floor leadership.
• Actively monitor the Business Unit system health and design and write proposals to remedy the cause of negative trends.
• Proactively monitor new development to discover subsystems or components that should be evolved into shared infrastructure.
• Proactively research, monitor, learn, and assess industry/technology advancements and continually build alliances to explore ways to leverage and advance our technical opportunities.

10+ years of experience in software, network, or systems engineering BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred Strong understanding of programming languages, code, and database. Expert-level knowledge in programming language(s); e.g., .Net, Java, HTML, Perl, C++, C#, PHP, etc.; or expert level in engineering discipline. Expert in a plurality of the following technologies:
Parallel and Distributed Processing Systems, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Very Large Scale Databases, Declarative Languages, and High-Performance Computing. Solid…