Director, Engineering – Legal Strategy and Shared Services

Responsibilities

• Directly manages software engineers and works closely with engineering teams to design, build, integrate, and operate secure, scalable solutions.
• Partners with Legal leadership, architects, and vendors, grounded in software engineering excellence, modern architecture, and reliable execution supporting discovery, litigation support, legal operations, and shared services.
• Deliver reliable, high‑quality Legal technology platforms built on modern engineering practices and architectures.
• Improve platform stability, scalability, and delivery predictability through strong engineering discipline and hands‑on leadership.
• Reduce operational and regulatory risk by ensuring systems are secure, well‑governed, and production‑ready.
• Elevate engineering capabilities through technical mentorship, coaching, and accountability for outcomes.
• Enable Legal Strategy and Shared Services and Corporate Services to achieve strategic objectives with technology that is resilient, scalable, and fit for purpose.

Requirements

• Deep software engineering leadership experience delivering enterprise platforms in regulated environments.
• Experience directly managing engineers responsible for full lifecycle delivery, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Strong engineering background across full‑stack development, including modern front‑end frameworks (e.g., Angular), back‑end services (Java, APIs, microservices), and relational databases such as Oracle.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud‑native architectures, including application deployment and operations on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments.
• Experience managing vendor and platform partnerships, aligning roadmaps, integrations using APIs, event‑driven, and secure integration patterns, and operational expectations to Legal priorities.
• Strong understanding of secure engineering practices, data governance, records retention, and compliance controls required for Legal and regulatory systems.
• Experience building or operating systems supporting high‑risk domains such as eDiscovery, legal holds, matter management, eBilling, document management, or regulatory workflows.
• Proven partnership experience with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Corporate Services stakeholders, framing complex technical topics as decisions, risks, and options, while maintaining strong engineering standards.

• software engineering
• full‑stack development
• Angular
• Java
• APIs
• microservices
• relational databases
• cloud‑native architectures
• AWS
• CI/CD pipelines

• leadership
• mentorship
• coaching
• accountability
• communication
• collaboration
• problem‑solving
• strategic thinking
• technical decision‑making
• risk management