Context is part of LexisNexis Legal & Professional — a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.
Context allows us to develop the legal profession’s most innovative products for legal analytics and research, using the latest in visualization and text mining. Lawyers use our products to forecast how judges will rule, find critical cases, and make data-driven decisions. We're working with great technology and the challenges that get us fired up involve search relevance, building out microservices and independent modular embeddable Apps.
BASIC FUNCTIONS:
- This position serves as a subject matter expert for a specific team of Software Engineers.
- In addition to writing code on complex systems and applications, this position provides direction on project plans, schedules, and methodologies.
- The position has direct reports (mostly in RDU and others remote).
What you will be doing:
- Lead a team that builds and scales application and API infrastructure that is powered by big data processed through our data ingestion and machine learning pipelines.
- Provide visibility into the health of our App and API platform and manage the CI/CD pipelines for our assets and optimize cloud costs.
- Automate and handle the life cycle of the systems and platforms that process our data.
- Provide technical leadership and develop roadmap for the App and API infrastructure.
- Understand and implement microservices, APIs and Context powered apps to process and explore data and generate visualizations.
- Analyze budgets and provide plans for resourcing.
- Manage security compliance for our AWS assets.
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of Software Engineering experience
- BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required
What are we looking for?
- Passionate for big data and developing application that use microservices to consume data.
- Advanced knowledge of Agile software development methodology
- Extensive experience with UI technologies like Angular, NodeJS, and other JavaScript framework
- Extensive experience with server-side technologies like .NET, Java and Scala
- Experience with CI/CD processes and configuration as code.
- Excellent people manager with strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals through the direct management of others.
- Strong problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.
- Familiarity with Cloud services especially AWS.
- Understanding of reporting dashboards like Looker and Splunk for logging.
LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact accommodations@relx.com or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.
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