[Remote] Staff Engineering Manager, Legal Technology (Remote- US) 1 Job Details | BNSF
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BNSF Railway is one of the largest U.S. railroads, dedicated to transporting freight across the nation. They are seeking a Staff Engineering Manager for Legal Technology who will set the technical vision and strategy for legal technology initiatives, providing hands-on leadership and overseeing critical platforms to enhance efficiency and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership by guiding design reviews, setting engineering standards, and ensuring high-quality solution delivery
- Drive architecture ownership across legal technology platforms, including API strategy, data architecture, and cloud-native solutions
- Ensure engineering best practices are followed, including continuous integration/delivery, observability, system performance, and reliability
- Lead the implementation of AI/ML solutions, with clear accountability for how models and automation are integrated into legal workflows and systems
- Define and execute a multi-year legal tech roadmap aligned with risk reduction and modernization, prioritizing initiatives with measurable business value
- Oversee development, integration, and optimization of legal domain applications to enable seamless data flow and process automation
- Guide scalable, secure architecture for legal systems, making build-vs-buy decisions and establishing best practices for configuration and integration
- Lead adoption and deployment of AI tools and automation for claims, contracts, and eDiscovery while fostering a culture of experimentation
- Ensure reliability, security, and compliance through 'secure by design' practices, legal holds, and operational metrics tracking
- Act as product owner for legal tech capabilities, using human-centered design to optimize user experience and drive adoption
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team that fosters autonomy, innovation, and collaboration
- Liaise between engineering and law department, communicate technical updates and business impacts, and manage vendor relationships
Skills
- Authorized to work in the US
- 9+ years in systems engineering, including team management
- 5+ years in legal technology platforms (CLM, matter management, claims)
- Hands-on experience with system integration, cloud SaaS, security, and compliance
- Strong leadership, communication, and product mindset
- Able to work now and in the future without BNSF's assistance (whether monetary, through sponsorship, or otherwise) in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization (including H-1B, STEM OPT/CPT, or TN nonimmigrant status)
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Direct experience in Legal Operations or compliance initiatives
- Certifications: CEDS, PMP, ITIL
- Experience with AI/ML, analytics, and large-scale transformation projects
- Background in complex or regulated industries (insurance, finance, government)
Benefits
- An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program.
- A range of robust health care options for you and your dependents (including domestic partners), including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, cancer support, and high-quality care network options.
- Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions, as well as life and disability insurance, provided at no cost.
- Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match).
- Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support.
- Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program)
- Generous leave / time off policies.
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