Director of Engineering, Enterprise Legal Tech Platforms

Fidelity Investments Inc.; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments Inc. seeks a Director, Engineering for Corporate Services Technology to lead technical direction and delivery of Legal technology platforms.

You will manage software engineers and partner with Legal leadership to build secure, scalable solutions for discovery, litigation support, and regulatory workflows. The role requires deep enterprise engineering leadership, cloud-native architecture, AWS experience, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering direction, delivery, and operational excellence of Legal technology platforms within LS3.
• Manage engineers responsible for full lifecycle delivery including design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Partner with Legal leadership, architects, and vendors to design, build, integrate, and operate secure, scalable solutions.
• Drive sprint planning, cross-team alignment on dependencies and release readiness, ensuring predictable delivery.
• Collaborate with architects, platform teams, and security to align solutions with enterprise standards.
• Communicate complex technical topics to Legal partners and senior leaders clearly.
• Foster adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Full-stack development

Cloud-native architectures

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Oracle databases

APIs integration

Security engineering

Data governance

Regulatory/compliance

eDiscovery systems

Stakeholder partnership

Communication

Tools

Angular

Java

APIs

Oracle

AWS

Job description

Fidelity Investments Inc. seeks a Director, Engineering for Corporate Services Technology to lead technical direction and delivery of Legal technology platforms.

You will manage software engineers and partner with Legal leadership to build secure, scalable solutions for discovery, litigation support, and regulatory workflows. The role requires deep enterprise engineering leadership, cloud-native architecture, AWS experience, and strong cross-functional collaboration.