Director, Engineering

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for engineering and application development teams supporting firmwide legal and business capabilities across value streams.
• Set technical direction, architectural standards, and engineering practices to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and operationally sustainable.
• Partner closely with IT, legal operations, and business stakeholders to translate business outcomes and value stream priorities into executable technology roadmaps and engineering delivery strategy, keeping a user experience and product value mindset at the forefront.
• Lead engineering execution and continuous delivery of technology capabilities, balancing innovation, platform stability, technical debt reduction, risk management, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across IT functions to improve delivery flow, reduce bottlenecks, and increase engineering throughput and reliability.
• Oversee engineering efforts across multiple product and platform workstreams, balancing innovation, operational stability, quality, risk, and delivery commitments.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices including automation, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, testing, reusable engineering capabilities, and operational readiness.
• Manage engineering budgets, vendor relationships, consultant resources, and third-party development partners as applicable to the success of the service portfolio and deliverables.
• Lead, develop, and retain engineering management and senior technical talent, including performance management and succession planning.
• Establish governance, metrics, and reporting for engineering performance, platform health, technical debt, operational sustainability, and delivery outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with firm security, risk, governance, privacy, and data protection standards across all engineering activities.
• Partner with infrastructure, operations, SRE, and end-user support teams to ensure stable production operations and smooth lifecycle support for delivered capabilities.
• Provides leadership to and manages a team of business professionals to include coaching, mentoring and professional development.
• Responsible for providing performance feedback on a regular basis.

Requirements

• Enterprise application architecture and modern development practices.
• Strategic planning and execution in complex environments.
• People leadership and organizational development.
• Financial and vendor management.
• Stakeholder partnership and executive communication.
• Risk management, security awareness, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Master's Degree in Technology, business, or management-related discipline preferred.
• Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, architecture, or technology leadership preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or application development, including at least five years in a senior leadership or management role overseeing multiple teams or portfolios.

Skills

• Enterprise application architecture and modern development practices.
• Strategic planning and execution in complex environments.
• People leadership and organizational development.
• Financial and vendor management.
• Stakeholder partnership and executive communication.
• Risk management, security awareness, and operational excellence.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$168,478 - $272,949 depending on the candidate’s geographic market location.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule.