Senior Visualfiles Developer

Department: IT

Location: Remote or Any UK Location (excluding London)

Duration: Permanent

Reports to: IT Development Manager

Direct reports: None

Reference Number: 9619

This is a key role in modernizing our case management ecosystem — integrating cloud services, automating workflows, and ensuring our solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with legal sector compliance standards.

You’ll take ownership of developing, testing, supporting, and maintaining our Visual files case management system and a portfolio of applications, including our Azure‑based Everyfile platform and other custom‑built solutions used by our Partners and legal teams.

This role is best suited to candidates with approximately 5 years’ experience in application development or case management systems.

• Design, develop, test, and implement Visual files, Everyfile, and other custom applications to streamline business processes for Partners and legal teams.
• Manage projects through the full development lifecycle, from gathering requirements and making recommendations to delivery and post implementation support.
• Work closely with the Product Owner to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and contribute to backlog refinement and user story quality.
• Research, evaluate, and adopt new technologies that improve automation, cloud integration, and user experience.
• Apply lessons learned from previous projects to improve functionality and ensure best practice design.
• Provide architectural guidance, technical estimates, and identify risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with external consultants, third party vendors, and the internal Infrastructure/Data Centre team to ensure applications meet standards for resilience, monitoring, security, and disaster recovery.
• Provide training and knowledge sharing to clients and colleagues when required.
• Report on project progress to the Manager and support ongoing optimisation of systems and processes.

• Proven experience delivering applications through the full project lifecycle.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Visual files Case Management.
  • Visual files application development, including scripting.
  • Visual files Pro2
    
    SQL and Visual files SDK.
• Experience with SQL databases, document management systems (e.g., iManage), reporting tools such as Power BI, and system integration.
• Understanding of modern cloud architecture principles (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), microservices, API first design, and middleware/integration layers.
• Working knowledge of Azure services including:
  App Services, Functions, Logic Apps, Azure SQL/Managed Instances, and Key Vault.
• Understanding of secure coding practices, data protection principles (e.g., GDPR), and role based access control (RBAC).

• Knowledge of HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, C#, .NET.
• Experience using Azure Dev Ops, Jira or similar tools, and version control systems (Azure Dev Ops Git).
• Microsoft Office development (VBA/macros).

• Experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban), project scoping, and business requirements analysis.
• Strong business process analysis skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Positive, collaborative team player with a “can do” attitude.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with strong documentation skills.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and client facing capability.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of the business value of technology.
• Calm, professional decision making under pressure, using tact and good judgement.
• Methodical, accurate, and quality focused approach to work.
• Demonstrates initiative, resilience, and proactive problem solving.
• Reliable, professional, and able to follow established processes and support senior IT leadership.

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