Director of Research and Software Engineering for Life Sciences

Are you ready for a leading role? Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products?

About Us

At LexisNexis Reed Tech, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each and every day, the work our team does supports the development of new technologies and processes that ultimately advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations and ultimately achieve superior results. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.

About the Team

We’re launching a small, high-impact innovation team tasked with rapidly exploring new product ideas, technologies, and experiences. We’re looking for a Technical Leader who is both a top-tier engineer and an inspiring hands-on leader. You’ll guide a small team of engineers and work side-by-side with a senior product manager to define, build, and iterate on early-stage concepts. 

About the Role

The Director of Research & Software Engineering will lead the development of our regulated Life Sciences SaaS platform, defining the technical vision, architecture, and strategy. This role ensures compliance with industry regulations (such as GxP and FDA 21 CFR Part 11), oversees daily operations, drives software development best practices, and manages global teams. You will be responsible for planning and executing product delivery while fostering innovation in cloud architecture, security, and software development.

Conditions of Employment:

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Hybrid Position required to report to one of the following Horsham, PA, Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA) or Raleigh, NC

Requirements

• Proven experience (7+ years) as a software engineer. 

• Proven experience (7+ years) of software engineering leadership, managing diverse cross-functional teams. 

• Strong architecture and coding skills across the stack (e.g., backend, frontend, cloud). 

• Demonstrated ability to build and iterate on products quickly, ideally in a startup or innovation lab environment. 

• Experience leading small, cross-functional teams. 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 

• Comfort with ambiguity, experimentation, and shifting priorities. 

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with rapid prototyping and user testing. 

• Familiarity with lean product development or design thinking. 

• Prior work in greenfield or 0→1 product environments. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner of MVPs and experimental products from concept through delivery. 

• Design and implement scalable prototypes with a focus on velocity, quality, and flexibility. 

• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers; establish best practices that encourage autonomy, innovation, and rapid iteration. 

• Collaborate with the product manager to shape roadmaps, scope experiments, and make build-vs-buy decisions. 

• Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical thinking. 

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns appropriate for early-stage development. 

• Create an engineering culture that celebrates experimentation, fast learning, and user feedback. 

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.

Working with Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Together, we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Working for you

We believe in a healthy work/life balance. We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Comprehensive, multi-carrier health plan benefits
- Disability insurance
- Dependent care and commuter spending accounts
- Life and accident insurance
- Retirement benefits (salary investment plan/employer stock purchase plan)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is a division of LexisNexis Legal and Professional. LexisNexis is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We're a part of the stock listed RELX Group, serving customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide.