Distinguished Engineer, Legal Engineering [REMOTE]

GEICO’s Enterprise Engineering team is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join our new Legal Technology organization. In this role, you will lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of a technical roadmap specializing in enterprise legal systems to ensure all digital assets operate in a highly reliable, responsive, efficient, and compliant way. This is an exciting opportunity to define a new technical vision in a challenging and complex space, helping innovate legal service delivery at GEICO. You will also drive GEICO’s transformation from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission.

Position Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and technical leadership in the continuous improvement and deployment of Legal systems aligned to GEICO’s needs and strategy
• Principal lead for architecture reviews involving core people technologies and mission-critical services
• Build and maintain a technical roadmap that aligns with the Legal Department’s stakeholder needs and wants
• Lead the full SDLC including technical research, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Present a vision and technology recommendations with clarity and simplicity to stakeholders having varying degrees of technology fluency
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders, including the Legal Department, to maintain reliable and durable production systems and lead the technical direction of the Legal Technology organization
• Foster effective collaboration and mentor junior engineers ensuring associate growth and development
• Manage the technical aspects of vendor relationships and make technology adoption recommendations
• Actively contributes to open-source projects and other communities of practice within GEICO and the industry
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend strategic investments and enhancements in legal and related technologies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a technology leadership role supporting legal, risk & compliance, regulatory or similar functions
• Strong understanding of cloud computing technologies, concepts, security best practices, and compliance standards
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Fluency and Specialization in at least two modern languages such as GO, Java, Python and/or Spark, including object-oriented design
• Experience architecting and developing a mix of custom and third-party solutions to support strategic initiatives
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational efficiency and automation
• Experience with legal or related technology domains is a plus (e.g., eDiscovery, document and knowledge management, legal workflow automation, AI with legal, CLM, eBilling & matter management, etc.)

Experience

• 8+ years of …