VP, Legal Engineering Lead

Company Overview:
A leading global alternative investment manager offers clients primary and secondary investment solutions across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure asset classes. They are seeking a Legal Engineering Lead to join their Corporate Technology team, focusing on legal and compliance technology solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering delivery and operational ownership for the Legal and technology portfolio, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and audit-ready.
• Serve as the technical lead for platform strategy, implementation, and support across Legal systems, including matter management/e-billing, legal entity management, CLM, and third-party intake/TPRM tooling.
• Partner with Legal and key stakeholder groups to translate business needs into clear technical requirements, solution designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Own end-to-end delivery: discovery, architecture/design, build/configuration, testing/UAT, release, and production support—aligned with SDLC, change management, and operational readiness.
• Establish and maintain integration patterns and data flows across core platforms (APIs, batch, middleware), supporting reporting, auditability, and downstream finance/procurement or records-management dependencies.
• Drive strong engineering discipline: configuration standards, code quality, peer review, automated testing where applicable, environment management, and release governance.
• Ensure embedded controls across workflows: approvals, access management, segregation of duties, evidence capture, and traceability aligned to audit and regulatory expectations.
• Lead a small team of technical resources, providing coaching, prioritization, and delivery oversight; foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Manage vendors/partners as needed: solution selection support, implementation oversight, SLA/service performance, roadmap alignment, and cost management.
• Provide transparent, executive-ready reporting on platform health, delivery status, risks/issues, dependencies, and remediation plans.

• 10+ years of progressive technology experience, including significant hands-on delivery experience supporting Legal systems and governance platforms in a complex environment.
• Experience in complex, regulated financial services; alternative asset management experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required;
  Computer Science/Engineering background preferred.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and hands-on delivery experience, including SQL, data analysis/troubleshooting, and comfort navigating complex processes and data flows.
• Experience with at least one general-purpose language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, JavaScript) and common integration approaches (REST APIs, services, batch).
• Experience implementing and supporting Legal and related risk platforms, including matter management/e-billing ecosystems, Legal Entity Management, CLM platforms, and intake/TPRM tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver secure, audit-ready solutions with robust traceability, workflow transparency, and evidence retention.
• Proven ability to lead small teams and deliver results through a mix of direct technical contribution and team oversight.
• Vendor/SI management experience is a plus.