Diagnose complex production issues across source systems, APIs, data pipelines, indexes and consuming AI applications, balancing quality, security, performance, cost and maintainability.
Lead technical delivery across internal teams and external partners. Review architecture and code, mentor engineers, manage technical dependencies and translate business, legal and governance requirements into practical delivery plans.
Required skills and experience
Strong experience managing/leading teams designing, delivering and operating production application/data platforms and integrations.
Deep practical experience designing and integrating RESTful and event-driven APIs, including authentication and authorization, API gateways, schema and contract management, versioning, retries, rate limits, error handling, observability and secure integration with enterprise and third-party systems.
Strong conceptual understanding of large language models, including their capabilities, limitations and common failure modes, and how data quality, context, retrieval, permissions and integration design affect AI application performance and evaluation outcomes.
Knowledge of unstructured document processing and retrieval-augmented generation, including search indexes, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking and retrieval evaluation.
Demonstrated ability to design secure data services, implement granular access controls and information barriers.
Proficiency in using coding agents to accelerate design, development, testing and troubleshooting, with sound judgement about human review and best practices for prompting, context management, validation, security and responsible use of generated code.
Experience developing software in programming languages such as Python, Java or C#, and applying sound software engineering practices to reusable libraries, services and integration components.
Experience with SDLC methodologies and associated development, automated testing and CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira and Jenkins.
Demonstrated ability to learn continuously in a rapidly evolving AI, data and integration landscape, critically assess new tools and techniques, and apply relevant advances pragmatically to improve the firm’s products, engineering practices and risk controls.
Experience making architectural decisions, leading complex technical delivery, reviewing designs and code, and developing other engineers. Ability to explain technical choices clearly to business, legal, security and governance stakeholders.
Minimum five or more years in data engineering, integration engineering or a closely related discipline.
Legal or professional services experience is desirable, including familiarity with iManage or comparable document management systems, entity resolution, legal taxonomies, knowledge graphs and governed agent integrations such as MCP.
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in New York and California, Freshfields is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the States of New York and California and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $70,000 to $170,000.
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