Software Engineering Manager, Legal Technology Data Platforms

Wells Fargo

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Charlotte, NC
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 14, 2026

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Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

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TL;DR · Software Engineering Manager, Legal Technology Data Platforms

The Software Engineering Manager Legal Technology Data Platforms leads a global engineering team responsible for building, modernizing, and operating data platforms that power legal technology. This role involves managing and coaching engineers to deliver data solutions for legal hold, matter lifecycle management, and legal operations. You will oversee the development of applications, pipelines, and integrations while ensuring data quality, governance, and readiness for AI-enabled capabilities. Key technical requirements include proficiency in SQL, ETL/data pipelines, APIs, batch processing, secure file transfers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and containerized environments like Kubernetes and Helm. You will solve complex data challenges by aligning technology with enterprise architecture and data strategy, ultimately turning evolving business needs into practical engineering solutions within a highly regulated environment to improve legal workflows and business outcomes.

What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?

Median $212450 from 116 postings across 37 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage, coach, and develop a globally distributed team of engineers delivering Legal Technology data platforms and pipelines.
  • Lead the delivery and modernization of data solutions for legal hold, matter lifecycle management, and legal operations.
  • Guide technical design and engineering quality across SQL, ETL pipelines, APIs, CI/CD, and containerized environments.
  • Strengthen data quality, governance, lineage, and privacy to prepare for AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Drive operational excellence through vulnerability remediation, release management, production support, and root cause analysis.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering issues to improve platform reliability and performance.
  • Partner with Product Managers to influence technology priorities, roadmaps, and delivery outcomes.
  • Identify opportunities to apply AI, machine learning, and automation to improve legal workflows.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
  • 2+ years of Leadership experience.
  • 3+ years of experience with Datawarehouse, Datamart, or Data lakes.
  • Experience leading software engineering, data engineering, data platform, or application development teams (preferred).
  • Experience applying technology, automation, AI, and data-driven solutions to legal workflows (preferred).
  • Experience in Legal Technology or Legal Technology Startups (preferred).
  • Strong knowledge of SQL, relational databases, ETL/data pipelines, APIs, and enterprise data environments (preferred).
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Helm, and secrets management (preferred).

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