Software Engineering Manager Legal Technology Data Platforms

About this role:

This is an opportunity to lead at the intersection of data, engineering, AI, and Legal Technology, where the platforms your team builds directly enable how a complex organization manages critical legal data and operations.

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a global engineering team building, modernizing, and operating the data platforms that power Legal Technology. You’ll bring together strong engineering leadership, data expertise, and operational discipline to deliver trusted, secure, and scalable solutions while helping create the data foundation for the next generation of AI-enabled Legal capabilities.

This role is built for a leader who wants to stay connected to the technology while developing great engineers, solving complex problems, and partnering across Legal, Product, Architecture, Information Security, and Technology. You’ll help turn evolving business needs into practical engineering solutions and lead a team accountable for delivering them.

If you’re energized by building strong teams, modernizing complex technology, solving meaningful data challenges, and turning AI potential into real-world capabilities, this is an opportunity to make an impact.

What Success Looks Like:

• You’ll build a team that delivers reliable, secure, scalable, and well-governed technology, strengthens the quality and accessibility of Legal data, and creates a strong foundation for AI-enabled capabilities.
• You’ll be equally focused on engineering excellence, operational stability, talent development, and building trusted partnerships across the organization.
• You’ll thrive here if you’re a hands-on engineering leader who can connect technology to business outcomes, develop great engineers, navigate complexity, and turn challenging problems into practical solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a globally distributed team of engineers delivering Legal Technology data platforms, applications, pipelines, and integrations.
• Lead the delivery and modernization of data solutions supporting legal hold, matter lifecycle management, and legal operations.
• Partner with architects and experienced engineers to align solutions with enterprise architecture, data strategy, application modernization, and technology standards.
• Guide technical design and engineering quality across SQL, ETL/data pipelines, APIs, batch processing, secure file transfers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and containerized environments.
• Strengthen data quality, governance, lineage, access, retention, privacy, and readiness for AI-enabled capabilities.
• Drive security and operational excellence through vulnerability remediation, technology currency, release management, production support, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering and production issues, removing roadblocks and improving platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to influence technology priorities, roadmaps, requirements, and delivery outcomes.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, machine learning, and automation to improve Legal Technology workflows and business outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 2+ years of Leadership experience.
• 3+ Years of Datawarehouse, Datamart, Data lakes etc.

Desired Qualifications:

• Legal Engineering experience: Experience applying technology, automation, AI, and data-driven solutions to legal workflows, including translating legal and business needs into scalable technology solutions.
• Experience in Legal Technology OR Legal Technology Startups.
• Experience leading software engineering, data engineering, data platform, or application development teams.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, relational databases, ETL/data pipelines, APIs, integrations, and enterprise data environments.
• Experience with modern engineering practices such as Git, CI/CD, automated testing, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Helm, and secrets management.
• Experience with data quality, governance, lineage, security, and privacy within complex or regulated environments.
• Experience managing production applications, releases, incidents, vulnerabilities, and technology risk.
• The ability to provide technical direction while coaching and developing engineering talent.
• Experience leading or partnering with globally distributed and offshore engineering teams.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills in a highly matrixed organization.
• Experience with Legal or Compliance technology, including platforms such as Onit or Exterro, is a plus.
• Experience applying AI/ML or automation to enterprise workflows is highly desirable.

Job Expectations and Core Values:

• Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others
• Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.
• Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
• Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
• Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with. 

This Role offers a Hybrid work environment with 3 days in office.

There is No Visa Sponsorship available at this time for this role.

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

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