Global IT Software Engineer Senior Director & Tech Area Lead - Legal

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In today’s rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape, Legal has never been more strategic — or more technically complex. BCG is at a pivotal moment: transforming how we manage contracts, conflicts, and compliance, and how we apply agentic AI, data, and automation to reduce risk and unlock capacity  are committed to becoming a benchmark for excellence in professional services — not just in what we say, but in how we show up, what we measure, and how we continuously innovate.

Realising this vision demands leadership — someone who combines deep technical legal‑technology expertise with the ability to drive cross‑functional transformation, influence senior stakeholders, and translate strategic ambition into measurable outcomes.

As the Technical Area Lead (TAL) for Legal, you will be BCG’s foremost technical authority on legal technology. You will define how the Legal function technically operates, set the standards and architecture for how legal capability is built and delivered, and act as the connective tissue between legal strategy and technical execution across the firm — ensuring alignment across platforms, teams, and stakeholders.

You will lead with both breadth — spanning contract lifecycle management, conflict clearance, legal knowledge management, eDiscovery & litigation support, matter allocation & management, insurance, corporate elections, and agentic AI — and depth, setting the technical direction that underpins major legal technology programs.

You will oversee key decisions — including short‑term delivery trade‑offs vs. long‑term capability build, platform and vendor selection, SDLC best‑practices, and the establishment and regular review of technology and AI‑quality observability and health metrics — while providing clarity and direction where priorities, ownership, or approaches are not well defined.

From a people‑management perspective, you will lead legal technology chapter leads and specialists across Software Engineering & AI, SaaS Engineering, Quality Assurance, Data, and L2 Operations, managing external vendor relationships where relevant. You will work closely with the Legal Portfolio to ensure alignment between legal technology capability and BCG’s risk, compliance, and commercial priorities.

• Create and deliver on the portfolio’s vision, strategy, and outcomes.
• Provide technical oversight and alignment across key legal platforms (e.g. contract lifecycle management, conflicts clearing, matter management, knowledge management) to deliver on the BCG legal technology strategy and execute against agreed direction, ensuring they operate cohesively across the ecosystem.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging trends in legal technology, agentic AI, and automation to identify opportunities.
• Ensure…