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We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.\nOur impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.\n The Director, Software Engineering leads the Legal Engineering delivery pillar within our Legal, Privacy & Compliance Engineering organization. You will lead the engineering team that build, integrate, and operate the technology powering our Legal department including, spanning contract lifecycle management, legal document management, eDiscovery and legal hold, intellectual property management, eBilling, and a growing portfolio of AI agentic workflows.\nThis is a build-and-lead role: you will own a portfolio that blends enterprise SaaS platforms with bespoke software and lead the engineering of the interoperability layer and differentiated custom applications that make the whole ecosystem greater than its parts.\nThis role requires both deep technical and leadership with business acumen in the corporate legal space. This leader will own the end-to-end delivery of legal technical solutions that enable capabilities across jurisdictions, partners directly with Product Management, Legal, and Cyber. This role will be responsible for hiring, retaining, and continuously assessing the health and growth of the legal engineering team.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nEngineering Leadership & DeliveryLeads a team of engineering managers, staff software engineers, and architects), plus contractors and interns\nOwn engineering delivery, technical health, reliability, and quality across the legal technology portfolio - SaaS platforms, custom applications, integrations, and data flows\nDrive engineering excellence: architecture reviews, code quality, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational readiness\nSteer programs at the right altitude - owning key decisions, pro-active escalations, and delivery health in partnership with our Technical Program Management and Product Management functions\nEstablish and uphold software quality, legal architecture and engineering standards, and NBCU cyber guidelines\nDrive delivery across multiple complex concurrent programs/projects\nPartner with Principal architect, scrum lead, product owner, and technical project manager to ensure standards and stakeholder visibility\n\nPlatform OwnershipProvide technical leadership across contract lifecycle management, legal document management, eBilling, intellectual property management, and eDiscovery/legal hold capabilities\nLead the strategy and engineering for interoperability between SaaS platforms and bespoke software - APIs, data integration, workflow orchestration, and shared services\nEnsure solutions meet enterprise architecture, security, privacy, and data governance standards\n\nStakeholder Engagement & InfluenceServe as the senior technical voice for Legal engineering\nCommunicate program status, risk exposure, and engineering trade-offs to SVPs, VPs and Directors in a clear and business relevant terms\nRepresent the organization in regulatory discussions, 3rd party audits, and external partner engagements as needed\nBuild a deep, strategic partnership with our Product organization - embedded in roadmap conversations, contributing engineering perspective to business process design in way of shift left mindset\nEngage directly with Legal department and Legal Operations leaders; translate their operational needs into reliable, scalable and secure engineering solutions\nPartner with our Principal Architect on technical standards fit for purpose design principles and with Cyber on secure integration practices while securing the perimeter protecting the brand, consumer’s rights, and data\n\nSystem Reliability & Performance: Proactively manage reliability and performance of all systems to ensure they meet global business needs. Partner closely with SaaS providers and internal teams to maintain system health and performance. \nDefect & Enhancement Management: Manage the defect management process from identification to resolution. Manage the delivery of enhancements that improve user experience and system efficiency.\nProblem & Incident Management: Own the problem management process, conducting root cause analysis to reduce the number of recurring incidents. Focus on implementing minor enhancements or process changes to prevent future issues. Manage the end-to-end response to major incidents impacting Legal business processes. Manage RCA sessions and ensure timely executive - level communications. Reduce “noise” in the system by analyzing ticket trends and automating routine fixes.\n Support Standards & SLAs: Enforce global support standards and best practices including adherence to SLAs for all support activities. Monitor and report on performance metrics (e.g. MTTR, backlog aging) and use data to drive continuous improvements.\nData Integration: Manage the support and maintenance of data integrations between enterprise systems.\n People LeadershipHire, develop, retain, and coach engineering managers, staff engineers, and architects; build a high-trust, high-accountability team culture\nGrow your leaders through honest feedback, career development, and intentional coaching\n\n Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.\n12+ years of experience in software engineering with 7+ years in engineering management or senior technical leadership\n5+ years of experience leading ML and automation solutions\n3+ years of hands-on experience with AI including, building or leading agentic workflows and/or agent orchestration\nDemonstrated deep legal technology experience delivering technology in a large enterprise environment\nWorking knowledge of application security fundamentals - SSO/IAM, API security, secure SDLC, and security review practices when integrating SaaS\nStrong track record of leading cross-functional programs with legal stakeholders\nProven ability to influence and communicate at S/VP levels\nExperience managing and growing engineering teams (software engineers + managers) in a matrixed Fortune 100 or equivalent environment\nFully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.\nThis position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $180,000 - $230,000 (bonus + LTI eligible) \n As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. 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