Senior Data Engineer II

RELX Group plc; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global provider of information-based analytics seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead technical initiatives in building and evolving complex data systems. This role involves mentoring data engineers and shaping architecture for mission-critical products, enabling AI-powered features and data pipelines. Strong experience with SQL Server, cloud-based Data Lakes, and tools like Databricks is essential. Benefits include health screening and various wellbeing initiatives to support a balanced work life.

Benefits

Health screening

Eye care vouchers

Private medical benefits

Optional Dental Insurance

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong experience with SQL Server and cloud-based Data Lakes (Azure and/or AWS).
• Deep knowledge of large-scale data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
• Hands-on experience with Spark and test-driven development (TDD) approaches.
• Experience building data pipelines that support AI/ML workloads.

Responsibilities

• Mentor, coach and support other data engineers.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, technical growth, and engineering excellence.
• Shape the architecture and standards for data systems.

Skills

SQL Server

Cloud-based Data Lakes (Azure and/or AWS)

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Test-driven development (TDD)

LLM or GenAI initiatives

Tools

Azure Synapse

Redshift

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

Delta Lake

Delta Share

Job description

.About the RoleAs a Senior Data Engineerat LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), you will play a key technical leadership role in designing, building, and evolving complex data systems that support both traditional analytics and emerging AI capabilities. You will help shape the architecture and standards that underpin mission-critical products, including data pipelines that enable machine learning, LLM-powered features, and AI experimentation at scale. This role is critical in ensuring the integrity, security, observability, scalability, and long-term sustainability of business-critical data platforms.Responsibilities:Mentor, coach and support other data engineers, contributing to knowledge sharing, technical growth, and engineering excellence.**Requirements:**Strong experience with SQL Server and cloud-based Data Lakes (Azure and/or AWS). Deep knowledge of large-scale data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake. Familiarity with cloud-native tools including Azure Synapse and Redshift.Experience building data pipelines that support AI/ML workloads. Hands‑on experience with Spark. Experience working with test-driven development (TDD) approaches.Having experience with LLM or GenAI initiatives—such as preparing data for embeddings, working with vector databases, or implementing retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)—would be a bonus. It would also be advantageous to have familiarity with technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Delta Share.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.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: ● Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits● Optional Dental Insurance **We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click** **to access benefits specific to your location.**RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.