Director, Engineering – Leader, Legal Strategy and Shared Services

Fidelity Investments•Smithfield, RI

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About The Position

The Director, Engineering – Leader within Corporate Services Technology, supporting Legal Strategy and Shared Services (LS3), is a senior engineering leader accountable for the technical direction, delivery, and operational excellence of Legal technology platforms. This role directly manages software engineers and works closely with engineering teams to design, build, integrate, and operate secure, scalable solutions. The role partners with Legal leadership, architects, and vendors, and is grounded in software engineering excellence, modern architecture, and reliable execution supporting discovery, litigation support, legal operations, and shared services.

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.
Hands-on engineering leadership capability.
Ability to design and evolve scalable, maintainable systems.
Strong execution leadership skills.
Comfort operating across the full software development lifecycle.
Ability to partner effectively with architects, platform teams, and security partners.
Clear and confident communication skills.
Change leadership mindset.

Responsibilities

Directly manages software engineers.
Works closely with engineering teams to design, build, integrate, and operate secure, scalable solutions.
Partners with Legal leadership, architects, and vendors.
Ensures technical direction, delivery, and operational excellence of Legal technology platforms.
Supports discovery, litigation support, legal operations, and shared services.
Reviews designs, guides implementation approaches, and coaches engineers on code quality, architecture, and operational readiness.
Designs and evolves scalable, maintainable systems while balancing delivery commitments and technical debt.
Manages sprint planning, drives cross-team alignment on dependencies, risks, and release readiness, and maintains predictable delivery across multiple initiatives.
Operates across the full software development lifecycle, from early requirements through post-release support and incident management.
Partners effectively with architects, platform teams, and security partners to align solutions with enterprise standards.
Communicates complex technical topics to Legal partners and senior leaders.
Promotes adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
Delivers reliable, high-quality Legal technology platforms built on modern engineering practices and architectures.
Improves platform stability, scalability, and delivery predictability through strong engineering discipline and hands-on leadership.
Reduces operational and regulatory risk by ensuring systems are secure, well-governed, and production-ready.
Elevates engineering capabilities through technical mentorship, coaching, and accountability for outcomes.
Enables Legal Strategy and Shared Services and Corporate Services to achieve strategic objectives with technology that is resilient, scalable, and fit for purpose.