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Job Summary:
Ares Management is a leading alternative asset manager committed to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. They are seeking a Legal Engineering Lead to oversee engineering delivery and technology solutions that support Legal and compliance workflows, ensuring operational efficiency and control effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
• Lead engineering delivery and operational ownership for the Legal and technology portfolio, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and audit-ready.
• Serve as the technical lead for platform strategy, implementation, and support across Legal systems, including matter management/e-billing, legal entity management, CLM, and third-party intake/TPRM tooling.
• Partner with Legal, and key stakeholder groups to translate business needs into clear technical requirements, solution designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Own end-to-end delivery: discovery, architecture/design, build/configuration, testing/UAT, release, and production support—aligned with SDLC, change management, and operational readiness.
• Establish and maintain integration patterns and data flows across core platforms (APIs, batch, middleware), supporting reporting, auditability, and downstream finance/procurement or records-management dependencies.
• Drive strong engineering discipline: configuration standards, code quality, peer review, automated testing where applicable, environment management, and release governance.
• Ensure embedded controls across workflows: approvals, access management, segregation of duties, evidence capture, and traceability aligned to audit and regulatory expectations.
• Lead a small team of technical resources, providing coaching, prioritization, and delivery oversight; foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Manage vendors/partners as needed: solution selection support, implementation oversight, SLA/service performance, roadmap alignment, and cost management.
• Provide transparent, executive-ready reporting on platform health, delivery status, risks/issues, dependencies, and remediation plans.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of progressive technology experience, including significant hands-on delivery experience supporting Legal systems and governance platforms in a complex environment.
• Experience in complex, regulated financial services; alternative asset management experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Computer Science/Engineering background preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to influence and collaborate across senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience (direct management and/or leading teams through delivery and operations).
• Strong engineering fundamentals and hands-on delivery experience, including SQL (required), data analysis/troubleshooting, and comfort navigating complex process and data flows.
• Experience with at least one general-purpose language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, JavaScript) and common integration approaches (REST APIs, services, batch).
• Working knowledge of SDLC, testing strategies, release/change management, and production support.
• Experience implementing and supporting Legal and related risk platforms, including one or more of: Matter management / e-billing ecosystems (e.g., SimpleLegal, Passport, Apperio or similar), Legal Entity Management (e.g., GEMS or similar), CLM platforms (e.g., Icertis, Ironclad or similar), Intake and/or TPRM tooling (e.g., Zip and comparable tools).
• Experience with integrations and data/reporting enablement, including monitoring, data quality, and reconciliation practices.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver secure, audit-ready solutions with robust traceability, workflow transparency, and evidence retention.
• Proven ability to lead small teams and deliver results through a mix of direct technical contribution and team oversight.
Preferred:
• Familiarity applying automation and/or AI-enabled capabilities to legal operations (e.g., document classification, summarization, clause extraction, intake triage), with a strong governance and controls mindset.
• Experience establishing platform standards and scalable operating models (configuration governance, release discipline, support/runbooks).
• Strong process mapping and documentation skills (e.g., Lucidchart) to support requirements clarity and stakeholder alignment.
• Vendor/SI management experience is a plus.
Company:
Ares Management is an alternative asset manager focusing on credit, private equity, and real estate. Founded in 1997, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.