Senior Data Engineer
LexisNexis South Africa|Posted 1 month ago
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About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.
About the Role
As a Senior Data Engineer at LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, scalable data solutions that power our Strategic Data Platform — the backbone for products like PatentSight+ and other analytics offerings.
In this role, you will design data pipelines, mentor team members, promote engineering best practices, and help deliver customer datasets using Databricks, APIs, and event-driven systems. You will manage complex tasks, influence architecture decisions, and work closely with stakeholders. This position suits those who thrive on large-scale data challenges, team development, and platform growth.
Responsibilities:
• Designing, implementing, and optimising scalable data pipelines using Python, PySpark, and Databricks.
• Driving the delivery of customer-facing data products through APIs, Databricks-based sharing, and event-driven mechanisms (e.g., Kafka or similar).
• Taking ownership of end-to-end features — from scoping and development to deployment and monitoring.
• Leading and participating in technical design discussions, contributing to architectural improvements and long-term data strategy.
• Mentoring and coaching junior engineers actively while supporting their technical and professional development.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Conducting peer code reviews, upholding code quality standards, and championing continuous improvement practices.
• Contributing to the team’s agile delivery process and provide input during planning and retrospectives.
Requirements:
• Have extensive experience in data engineering or backend software engineering with a data focus.
• Be proficient in Python, PySpark, and working within Databricks environments.
• Have hands-on experience designing and delivering data products via REST APIs, event-driven systems, or data sharing platforms like Databricks Delta Sharing.
• Have a solid understanding of distributed data processing, ETL/ELT workflows, and data lake/lakehouse architectures.
• Have experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data tooling.
• Have a proven track record of mentoring or coaching other engineers.
• Have effective communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Be familiar with agile development practices.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
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:
• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
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About LexisNexis South Africa
LexisNexis South Africa is a leading provider of content and technology solutions, and part of RELX, a major publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 175 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to advance the rule of law around the world. Publishing laws and enabling access to justice is at our core.
In November 2015 LexisNexis® South Africa established itself as a leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market with its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korbitec (Pty) Ltd, a provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals. Korbitec’s offering includes two industry leaders, GhostConvey and Windeed.
The most important part of our business is its people, who are diverse in culture and possess unique skills that help drive our projects from one success to another.
At the core of our information technology operation is a team of software engineers, who constitute a third of our total staff complement. They carry out software research and development that keeps LexisNexis at the cutting edge of IT innovation, building the products that support our operations in South Africa as well as internationally.
Perks at LexisNexis South Africa
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application and data
utilities
dev ops
business tool
