Software Engineering Lead

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, risk.lexisnexis.com

About the Role – Investigations Team

We are seeking a Software Engineering Lead for one of our development teams in our Cardiff office. This is a hybrid role, based in our Cardiff office in the UK.
The Investigations team looks after a collection of products, including one of our flagships – TraceIQ, which is widely used in the Investigation and Data Management business, – enabling us to fight fraud, reduce risk and create a fairer and more inclusive society.
The team use a PHP tech stack on a API first based architecture to develop capabilities, which are delivered into solutions.

This role will support the team by enabling delivery of changes and directly managing around 3 to 6 talented Engineers.

About the Team

Our development teams are cross-functional and agile, with a high degree of autonomy. They align their work (and backlog) to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) set for the whole group; they set their own OKRs on a quarterly basis.

A team typically consists of Software Engineers, Quality Test Engineers, a Product Owner and a Project Manager – and of course, a Software Engineering Lead! Each team member has their own diverse skillset and are usually at different points in their career – ensuring that there is always room to learn and grow.

All teams are supported by a network of peers along with other disciplines, such as Systems Architects and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).

Responsibilities

Being accountable for delivery of changes, enabling team members to set out what is required and then build it
Collaborating closely with the Product Owner and Project Manager to align the work of the team to solving problems for customers and business priorities, and then refining it into deliverable iterations
Supporting the growth of your team members, allowing them to do their best work and achieve their career goals
Continually striving towards engineering excellence – getting hand’s on with code where needed and maintaining excellent service for our customers
Contributing to wider group initiatives, from championing information security to continuing to support diversity and inclusion within our teams

Requirements

Have hand’s-on technical experience building and delivering software as part of a development team (either as a Software Engineer or Quality Test Engineer) – Languages currently used by the team are PHP, Laravel, MySQL, AWS.
Guide refinement of technical work into deliverable pieces and validate the team’s approach to solving problems (collaborating on achieving this is OK, and expected)
Advocate and demonstrate commitment to a safe and inclusive environment, where everyone can be successful
Communicate quickly and clearly within the team and with stakeholders
Mentor others and help them reach their full potential
Be comfortable making mistakes and learning from them

Women in Technology

LexisNexis Risk is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

Mentoring scheme for women in technology
Women’s network forum
Women in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG)
LexisNexis Risk Solutions proudly support the tech talent charter.