Distinguished Engineer

LexisNexis is well regarded as a content and technology partner to the legal industry. With our leadership in generative AI, we have a unique opportunity to drive innovation and transform the legal-tech ecosystem.  

This role reports into the CTO, Legal Markets.  

As a Distinguished Engineer on the Global Technology team, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence for high-impact capabilities on the Lexis+ platform. You will partner closely with senior engineering, product, data science, and security leaders to solve the hardest technical problems—especially in areas like GenAI-enabled experiences, scalable platform services, reliability, and modernization—while setting a high bar for quality, performance, and responsible innovation.  

This role requires a highly resourceful, self-driven individual who leads through influence, deep technical credibility, and pragmatic execution.  

Duties and Responsibilities  

Technical Vision & Architecture Leadership  

• Define and communicate an end-to-end technical vision for platform and product capabilities aligned to strategic business goals on Lexis+.  

• Lead architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems; establish patterns and guardrails for scalable, secure, resilient services.  

• Drive modernization of critical components (cloud adoption, microservices evolution, observability, developer productivity), balancing near-term delivery with long-term sustainability.  

• Provide technical leadership on build-vs-buy decisions and integration of third-party systems and services.  

Engineering Execution & Delivery (Hands-on Influence)  

• Partner with engineering teams to translate architecture into delivery plans; remove technical blockers and reduce cycle time.  

• Lead technical design reviews for major initiatives; ensure designs meet standards for availability, performance, security, privacy, and cost efficiency.  

• Contribute to critical code paths and reference implementations as needed; raise the quality bar through exemplars.  

• Champion engineering rigor: testing strategy, code quality, API design, and operational readiness.  

Innovation & Technology Roadmap  

• Evaluate emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards to keep Lexis+ at the forefront of legal tech innovation, including GenAI and multi-model approaches where relevant.  

• Drive proof-of-concept initiatives, prototyping, and pilots to validate value, feasibility, and risk; inform platform and product roadmaps.  

• Establish best practices for responsible AI engineering (quality evaluation, reliability, safety, and governance) in partnership with Data Science, Legal, and Security.  

Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration  

• Partner with senior leaders across Product, UX, Data Science, Security, and Operations to align technical investments with business priorities and customer outcomes.  

• Influence organization-wide decisions through clear technical narratives, tradeoff analysis, and measurable outcomes.  

• Act as a trusted technical advisor for complex initiatives and strategic planning.  

Operational Excellence & Reliability  

• Define and drive standards for observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, capacity planning,