4 months ago
Shanghai, China or Beijing, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Engage China Academic & Government customers during early sales stages to understand business goals, technical constraints, IT environments, governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead technical requirement decomposition, solution investigation, feasibility assessments, architecture design, and documentation.
- Design integration pathways and data integrations between Elsevier products, customer systems, and third-party platforms.
- Lead LLM application architecture, AI/API integration planning, MCP and agent-integration protocol implementation, and evaluation of local ecosystems.
- Design scalable ETL/ELT and streaming data solutions and assess data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse trade-offs.
- Ensure proposed solutions address China-specific network, cloud, data residency, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance constraints.
- Provide technical cost, implementation complexity, RFQ, proposal, and business-case input.
- Lead rapid prototyping, technical POCs, early demos, and validation with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Contribute to China go-to-market strategy, including API monetisation and data-as-a-service opportunities.
- Maintain architecture, design, proposal, workflow, and POC documentation and participate in architecture governance.
- Coach local engineering team members on architecture practices and collaborate with global architecture, product, sales, and customer stakeholders.
- Track China’s AI research tools landscape, gather requirements from research institutions, and support technically informed positioning of Elsevier solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software architecture, solution design, or technical consulting.
- 3+ years of experience in B2B/B2I pre-sales, pre-deal, or early-stage technical engagement roles.
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of software engineering, architecture, system design, testing, and operations.
- Proficiency in solution architecture design, architecture modelling, Python, Java, scripting, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, API design, authentication frameworks, and programmatic data transformation.
- Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, lakehouses, data lineage, metadata management, data classification, data quality frameworks, data observability, enterprise data cataloguing, and cloud data platforms.
- Experience deploying and operating solutions on China-available cloud platforms, including AWS and Alibaba Cloud, as well as cloud-native and containerized architectures.
- Experience designing, integrating, deploying, and operating AI/LLM applications and implementing MCP and agent-integration protocols.
- Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, content security controls such as DRM and dynamic watermarking, and access-permission engines.
- Knowledge of China Cybersecurity Law, Personal Information Protection Law, Data Export Security Assessment regulations, and GDPR compliance requirements.
- Strong technical documentation, analytical, communication, stakeholder management, customer presentation, collaboration, prioritization, and business translation skills.
- Excellent bilingual Chinese-English communication skills and ability to lead cross-timezone technical reviews independently.
- Preferred qualifications include academic publishing or knowledge-services experience, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Alibaba Cloud ACE, TOGAF or equivalent certifications, academic platforms, knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, medallion architecture, self-service analytics, security architecture reviews, and Privacy Impact Assessments.
Benefits
- Medical and life insurance, long-service awards, marriage and new baby gifts, festival and birthday gifts, and annual medical check-ups.
- Flexible benefits through the CIIC Platform.
- Paid time off including annual leave, family care leave, and public holidays.
- Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
- The role is based in China and involves cross-timezone collaboration with global teams and customers.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About RELX
RELX provides information-based analytics, research content, and decision tools for scientists, legal and risk professionals, insurers, and governments. Through segments including Elsevier (STM), LexisNexis (legal and risk), and RX (exhibitions), it sells subscriptions, data services, and software platforms used in 180+ countries. Headquartered in London, it is a public company listed in London and Amsterdam.