Director, Engineering – Legal Strategy and Shared Services

Director of Engineering leading Legal technology platforms at Fidelity. Managing software engineers for scalable solutions in regulated environments.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeNew Hampshire, Rhode Island, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudJavaMicroservicesOracle

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

What you’ll need

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringfull-stack developmentAngularJavaAPIsmicroservicesrelational databasescloud-native architecturesAWSCI/CD pipelines

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipcoachingaccountabilitycommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingtechnical decision-makingrisk management