Platform Engineer Legal Technology

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Get to Know the Team

Grab's Legal function is committed to leveraging technology to manage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and support hyper-growth across the region. We are seeking a specialized Regional Legal Tech Transformation Engineer whose primary focus will be architecting, building, and governing the agentic workflows and deterministic automations that power Legal and Privacy operations.

This role is paramount for executing the Legal team's strategy, acting as the technical engine to translate complex legal demands into efficient, scalable systems that improve our productivity and efficiency when delivering services to Grab.

Get to Know the Role

You will join the existing Legal Operations Team, acting as the dedicated technical specialist working to support the broader Legal Team. Your mission is to ensure the Legal function is technically equipped to manage global obligations, protect data assets, and streamline critical legal workflows.

• Legal Strategy Realization: You will partner closely with Legal stakeholders to translate strategic legal objectives into practical, scalable technical solutions, transforming complex ideas into operational capabilities to drive measurable impact.
• Legal Tech Ownership: You will be responsible for the full lifecycle management of technology solutions that facilitate legal compliance, including data governance, privacy compliance, and other strategic legal transformation projects. In collaboration with our Grabber Technology Services and Tech Infrastructure teams, you will build new, legal specific functionality on top of existing infrastructure including custom AI Skills, agentic mini-apps and deterministic automations.
• Agentic Governance & Compliance: You will design and implement technical controls to enforce compliance policies, translating intricate regulatory texts into structured agent instructions (e.g., CLAUDE.md) and Python logic. You will also ensure that all technical solutions are in compliance with company policies and Tech guidelines/best practices in software development.
• Technical Advisory: You will serve as the primary technical consultant for the Legal family, providing expert guidance on data security, data architecture, and compliance tooling required for complex commercial negotiations and product launches.

The Day-to-Day Activities:

• Lead the architecture, configuration, and implementation of critical third party legal and privacy platforms (e.g., OneTrust, Glean / LLM agents, AI tools, contract management tools) as well as internally developed enterprise AI solutions and MCPs, ensuring API-led integration with existing corporate and engineering systems.
• Engineer and optimize vibe-coded applications and agentic workflows for the Legal function. This includes designing Python-based data extraction scripts, managing structured rule sets for legal use cases (e.g., contract redlining, policy summarization), and deploying AI agents as composable Skills into daily workflows.
• Develop, program, and manage solutions to ensure Grab's policies are correctly implemented, optimizing for both regulatory adherence and business enablement.
• Act as the configuration owner, taking full responsibility for the operation, maintenance, and testing of deployed automations under the 'You build it, you own it' mandate.
• Working with the Legal Operations Team, drive Process Transformation by mapping current workflows, identifying optimization opportunities, and redesigning processes before applying AI automation.
• Interface with the Legal, Compliance, and Data Governance teams to define technical requirements for new or modified privacy systems.
• Interface with Grabber Technology Services to architect integrations between disparate legal tools by building and consuming certified MCPs, eliminating data silos.

Process Automation & Data Engineering

• Design and deploy deterministic workflow automations for the legal team using enterprise orchestration engines..
• Apply Privacy by Design principles and other regulatory requirements to new data processing activities, developing technical solutions (using techniques like anonymization, pseudonymization, and encryption) to mitigate vulnerabilities and prevent privacy risks.
• Provide technical expertise and resource planning for big data solutions, ensuring data architecture enables business insight while strictly adhering to privacy and data protection mandates.
• Update data workflows and inventory maps within privacy systems to ensure the continuous accuracy and maintenance of our Record of Processing Activities (ROPA).
• Conduct regular technical assessments of operational processes to identify risks relative to regulatory compliance, and implement effective tools and guidance to mitigate them.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• You will work closely with our Legal, Privacy, Grabber Technology Services and Tech Infrastructure teams.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in technical roles focused on Software Development, Legal Operations or Data Privacy Engineering. Experience implementing agentic workflows or deterministic automations for a Legal or Privacy function is preferred but not required.
• Technical Skills: Experience with software development, data architecture, and implementing data protection controls (e.g., encryption, masking), Python, structured prompt design using Markdown, API/MCP integration, and deterministic logic building.
• Legal Tech Background: Knowledge of and experience managing enterprise AI infrastructure, orchestration tools, and local IDEs. Specific experience with OneTrust, Cursor, n8n, Workato, or similar platforms is preferred but not required.
• Execution: Responsive and adept at gaining consensus with senior Legal and Engineering stakeholders.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.