Jobs at LexisNexis South Africa

About the Role

• We’re looking for a highly collaborative and detail‑oriented SA Legal Editor to join the Global Analytical Editorial Operations team. In this role you will curate, enhance, and expand authoritative US legal analysis by partnering with expert authors and leveraging AI‑enabled editorial tools. You’ll combine sharp legal insight with strong project‑ and relationship- management skills to ensure that our products deliver comprehensive and timely guidance to our customers. 

Responsibilities 

• Recruiting, onboarding, and supporting external authors; setting clear expectations for scope, style, and delivery. 
• Maintaining productive long‑term relationships, intervening early to resolve performance issues or revise author mix as needed; managing contributor contracts within approved budgets. 
• Tracking legislative, regulatory, and case‑law developments to keep content current, understanding emerging trends, and identifying white‑space opportunities for new content. 
• Managing portfolio delivery plans, collaborating with Content Operations to balance quality, speed, and cost.  
• Providing substantive and structural updates and/or edits, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and cross‑platform functionality. 
• Acting as content expert for assigned practice areas, supplying requirements for customer‑facing features and workflow improvements. 
• Supporting Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success with subject‑matter expertise to enhance marketing collateral.
• Leveraging generative and agentic AI, automation, and data to support streamlining of content development and editorial processes.

Requirements

• Have a degree in law (LLB, JD, or equivalent); Advanced degree in taxation a plus 
• Have at least 1 year of professional tax experience in practice, corporate, or advisory settings. 
• Demonstrated ability to scope requirements for new legal content; edit complex legal analysis for clarity, consistency, and voice. 
• Be comfortable using LLMs for legal research; skilled at crafting prompts, evaluating outputs, and iterating for optimal results. 
• Able to interpret market signals, customer feedback, and data to inform content initiatives and drive sustainable growth. 
• Be a clear and positive communicator who thrives on collaborating with stakeholders and partners; delivers on commitments, pivots quickly as needed and views setbacks as learning opportunities. 

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About the Role

• This position performs complex research, design, and software development assignments within a software functional area or product line, and provides direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the development of cross-functional software products. This position performs software design — typically across multiple systems; mentors more-junior members of the team; and talks to users/customers and translates their requests into solutions. Mentor and guide juniors, assist software engineering leads with technical solutions and designs.

Responsibilities

• Providing design input across a product
• Acting as an acknowledged 'go to' person on coding and technical issues
• Interfacing with other technical personnel and product owners to finalize requirements and estimations
• Completing complex bug fixes, and resolving technical issues
• Designing and working with complex data models
• Mentoring software developers with best practices and providing guidelines
• Keep abreast of new technology developments.
• Successfully implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience
• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required
• Be expert in development languages, including but not limited to C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, SQL, Cypress, Playwright, Python
• 2-3 years working experience in microservices
• Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming (OOP) and SOLID principles, experience in design patterns with a preference in C# and the .NET framework.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of Software Engineering design patterns and/or methodologies.
• Knowledge of test-driven development
• 2-3 years of experience in working with AWS platform
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

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About the Role

• As UX Designer I you will support local SA development teams to allow them to deliver autonomously, increase quality and velocity. You will also work with the wider global business. You will understand the scope of the work, its desired outcomes and ensure alignment with our Design System and global UX processes.

Responsibilities

• Understanding how UI design impacts the overall user experience.
• Identifying different creative solutions and looks for opportunities to develop new ideas or thinking within own role.
• Iterating on defined user experience concepts and components for the product or project using tools such as wireframes, prototypes, and process flow diagrams.
• Exploring data from analytics packages, customer insight or other sources to understand context of research work.

Requirements

• Experience in UX design or early career candidates with good placement experience in art/design
• Have experience working in Figma
• Have experience working with enterprise design system
• Have B2B or professional services background
• Have a good portfolio showcasing full UX/UI lifecycle and delivery.

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• We are looking for a skilled LLM Application Developer to join our team. You will be responsible for implementing large language model (LLM) based applications, working with proprietary and open-source models as well as popular frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex to ensure seamless integration and deployment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Engineers
• Collaborate with stakeholders like Product Managers, Data Scientists and Program Managers
• Develop and implement LLM-based applications.
• Fine-tune and deploy large language models.
• Implement production quality ETL jobs
• Build RAG-based applications  
• Integrate models with existing systems and APIs.
• Preprocess and manage data for training and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Document development processes, code, and APIs.

REQUIREMENTS

• Prior experience managing an engineering team
• Proven experience with large language models and open-source frameworks.
• Experience leveraging models from repositories such as Hugging Face
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow and Hugging Face Transformers.
• Strong knowledge of API integration (RESTful, GraphQL).
• Experience with data preprocessing, SQL, and NoSQL databases as well as vector stores (e.g., Postgres, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, ChromaDB etc.)
• Experience with GPU programming, including CUDA or RAPIDs
• Familiarity with deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an agile team environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• Certifications in machine learning, data science, or cloud computing.
• Portfolio showcasing past projects or contributions to open-source projects.