Software Engineer Tech Lead

Working in technology at Elsevier means that your work really does matter – it changes lives. Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. About the Team:**The Search and AI Platform is Elsevier’s agentic data platform powering products such as Scopus, ScienceDirect, and our next-generation LLM-powered research systems. The platform uses agentic services to interrogate our rich knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our unparalleled collection of research data to deliver insights to the scientific community so they can collaborate more effectively, work smarter, and deliver quality research more quickly.We’re a truly global company with colleagues in all regions of the world, offering a stimulating environment that enables bright, passionate people to do their best work.**About the Role:**We are seeking a **Lead Software Engineer – Search & AI Platform (AI Content Team)** to drive the design, delivery, and operation of large‑scale content pipelines . You will set technical direction, mentor and grow engineers, collaborate closely with product, data, and platform teams, and ensure our services meet high standards of performance, reliability, and security. You will own key capabilities— content ingestion to centralized storage, enrichment and retrieval, and loading search indexes —that power AI‑enabled products across Elsevier.**Lead & mentor** a team of software engineers (hiring, coaching, performance, career growth); Own technical strategy & architecture** for scalable content ingestion, enrichment, retrieval, and search/index pipelines; Design, prototype, and build** robust distributed systems using **Java** **(Spring Boot)**, **Python (FastAPI)**, **Kafka**, **Spark**, **Airflow**, **Snowflake**, **Iceberg**, and **RDBMS**.* **Build and operate** cloud infrastructure on **AWS** (compute, storage, observability, security); automate infrastructure and deployments via CI/CD.* **Establish engineering excellence**: code reviews, testing strategy, performance tuning, reliability engineering (SLOs, error budgets), incident response and postmortems.* **Partner cross‑functionally** with Product, Data, Security, and Platform to define roadmaps, success metrics (OKRs), and delivery plans; Drive security, privacy, and compliance** standards across data flows and services; ensure auditability and governance for content pipelines.* **Additionally**, experience with **large‑scale content management systems** and **big data** environments is highly valued.**Requirements:*** **10+ years** of professional software engineering experience delivering server‑side applications and distributed systems.* **4+ years** of hands‑on **technical leadership** (team lead/tech lead/manager), including mentoring, architectural decision‑making, and driving delivery at scale.* Expert programming skills in **Java** and **Python**; Practical expertise with **Kafka/streaming**, **Spark/data processing**, **Airflow/orchestration**, **Snowflake/Iceberg**, and relational databases.* Advocate of **engineering best practices**: clean code, testing strategies, security‑by‑design, performance, and reliability principles.* With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals.**Private Medical/Dental Plan* Savings Fund* Life Insurance* Meal/Grocery Voucher**About Elsevier:**Elsevier is a global information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare, and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We empower professionals and institutions to realize the potential of information to improve academic, corporate, and clinical performance, expand human knowledge, and generate positive—often groundbreaking—outcomes in critical domains of human endeavor. We are 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.***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.It defines us as a company.