IT & Software

Manager Software Engineering

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

London · England · United Kingdom

Are you passionate about leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality data services that create meaningful business impact? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where you can coach people, drive continuous improvement, and help teams achieve ambitious goals? About the Business LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at

About the Role

As a Development Manager, Data Services, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for delivering sprint and release commitments aligned to the agreed roadmap. You will combine people leadership with delivery excellence, ensuring your team is supported, engaged, and focused on achieving high-quality outcomes. Working closely with Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering leaders, you will help translate strategic priorities into achievable plans while driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and reliable service delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own delivery of the team's sprint and release commitments against the agreed roadmap.
  • Translate priorities set by senior leadership into sprint plans, tickets and achievable milestones.
  • Coordinate day-to-day delivery across the team, managing blockers, dependencies and capacity.
  • Ensure work is delivered to agreed quality, coding and testing standards.
  • Identify and flag delivery risks early, escalating where they exceed the team's control.
  • Track and report on sprint progress, velocity and delivery health to the wider DS leadership.
  • Line-manage, coach and develop a team of engineers.
  • Act as the delivery point of contact for the team's area of work.

Requirements

  • Experience leading engineering teams and supporting their performance, wellbeing and development.
  • Ability to translate strategic priorities into clear delivery plans and executable milestones.
  • Experience managing sprint delivery, release commitments, dependencies and team capacity.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Ability to identify, assess and escalating delivery risks appropriately.
  • Understanding of engineering quality standards, testing practices and operational excellence.
  • Experience supporting recruitment, onboarding and team development activities.
  • Commitment to fostering collaboration, ownership and continuous improvement.

Risk benefit statement

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here. We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact .

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. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, our businesses span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that provide market-specific solutions. Approximately 11,100 employees in offices throughout the world support our brands by serving customers in more than 190 countries and territories. LexisNexis Risk Solutions is part of RELX, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information, please visit and

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