Are you someone who thrives on solving hard problems, learning fast, and pushing boundaries?

Do you seek out roles that challenge you intellectually and never settle for “good enough”?
Do you believe that success is a team sport — and that the best teams win together through grit, trust, and shared purpose?

If this sounds like you, we may have the perfect opportunity.

About the Team:
We are a small, high-performing R&D team embedded within a large, socially responsible big data organization. Our mission is to tackle the toughest technical challenges — often where conventional solutions fall short. We specialize in artificial intelligence, automated code generation, and building elegant systems that scale.

About the Role:
We’re looking for a talented and driven Consulting Software Engineer with deep expertise in both the engineering and math necessary to help build our anomaly detection component, the software that learns ‘what happens next’, and our proprietary genetic algorithm component. You’ll work alongside colleagues who are passionate, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Many of us have advanced degrees, but what truly defines us is our mindset: curiosity, resilience, and a drive to beat the hardest problems.

If you’re looking for a place where you’ll be stretched, supported, and surrounded by people who care deeply about their craft, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources.

• Provide design input across a technology stack.

• Work directly with customers and end users.

• Serve as acknowledged “go to” person on coding and technical issues.

• Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.

• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

• Complete complex bug fixes.

• Design and work with complex data models.

• Mentor lead software developers interested in consultancy on development methodologies and optimization techniques.

Requirements:

• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.

• Strong technical leadership skills; partnering with and advising technology resources in solving complex problems.

• Strong problem-solving skills, with a desire to learn and the ability to grasp new concepts quickly. Must be able to work independently as well as in a team environment.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Proficiency in Java (Java 8 or later), with strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and performance optimization.

• Strong understanding and practical use of regular expressions for pattern matching, text extraction, and input validation.

• Expert grasp of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

Technical Skills

• Expert grasp of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

• Knowledge of text pre-processing, tokenization, POS tagging, and entity recognition techniques in traditional NLP.

• Experience working with large-scale text datasets, parsing unstructured data, and optimizing for performance and accuracy.

• Ability to ensure that quality solutions integrate seamlessly with existing data pipelines and architectures.

• Ability to design and work with complex data models.

• Expertise in test-driven development and maintenance, including techniques for applying best practices for overall project benefit.

• Proficiency in Git and GitHub workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient with build tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Bonus/Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with machine learning techniques and how they apply to NLP tasks.

• Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Exposure to containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.

Working for you:

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan

• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity

• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits

• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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 the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

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