Overview
In this role you will lead the engineering organization responsible for shared platform capabilities that enable trusted data services and production-grade AI-driven workflows. You will partner with Platform Product Management to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure platforms adopted across product domains, driving high-quality execution. Your work will focus on ingestion, integration, governance, AI workflow guardrails, and enterprise security, with a emphasis on measurable impact and cross-functional collaboration. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape platforms that empower innovators in a regulated space.
Pay / Benefits
- healthy work/life balance
- wellbeing initiatives
- shared parental leave
- study assistance
- sabbaticals
- flexible hours
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of shared platform services and data capabilities used by multiple product domains
- Translate product requirements into scalable designs and delivery plans
- Provide capacity forecasts, sequencing, and risk assessments for platform roadmap decisions
- Build and operate ingestion, integration, and modernization capabilities to improve data trust and reuse
- Implement canonical data contracts and APIs with versioning and backward compatibility
- Implement agent workflow platform capabilities aligned to product standards, including traceability and state management
- Establish production-grade evaluation, observability, auditability, and guardrails for safe AI workflows
- Implement security controls, access governance, encryption, and audit requirements with InfoSec and ensure SDLC and vulnerability management compliance
Key requirements
- 12+ years leading platform engineering with production operations accountability
- Proven success with platforms adopted by multiple product teams, including reliability and incident management
- Strong hands-on leadership in distributed systems and platform engineering
- Deep experience with data platform engineering at scale (ingestion, integration, data quality, metadata and lineage, secure access)
- Experience enabling AI-powered systems in production (evaluation, monitoring, observability, auditability, guardrails)
- Ability to partner with product leaders on contract-driven platforms and deliver outcomes
- Proven ability to hire and develop high-performing engineering teams including AI platform engineers
- Experience building AI workflow platforms or shared AI services; familiarity with regulated/high-trust systems advantageous
- leadership
- cross-functional collaboration
- strategic thinking
- distributed systems
- platform engineering
- data platform engineering at scale
Sr Director, Platform Engineering – Data Platform & Agentic Platform in London employer: RELX Group
At ICIS, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters curiosity and creativity. Our London-based team thrives in a fast-paced environment, providing ample opportunities for professional growth and the chance to become a recognised expert in the evolving energy market. With a commitment to employee well-being and a range of country-specific benefits, we ensure our staff are supported in their pursuit of meaningful and rewarding careers.
