Manager, IT Development

About Norton Rose Fulbright

At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success.

With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.

The IT Development Manager leads a team of application developers, overseeing solution design, engineering, and operations for both in‑house and integrated third‑party applications. The role ensures solutions align with business needs, maintain high security standards, minimize technical debt, and adhere to operational best practices.

• Strategic Planning – Collaborate with senior leadership, enterprise architecture, and information security to implement technology roadmaps and adapt plans as needed.
• Stakeholder Collaboration – Work closely with Business stakeholders and Product Owners to gather and understand requirements translating them into technical specifications.
• Talent Management – Manage and mentor a team of software developers, fostering a high performing team that keeps up with technology advances, delivers using best practices, and has the right mix of skills to support the delivery needs of the organization. Create strategies for developing and retaining top talent including training, development, ongoing performance management and annual evaluations. Provide hands‑on code reviews and code accelerators for coaching or delivery velocity when needed.
• Technical Project Management – Partner with Product Owners and the PMO to create technical work breakdown structures to achieve project timelines, on budget, with quality, and leveraging the right resource allocation to ensure successful delivery.
• Engineering Oversight – Stay aligned to high level designs from the EA office ensuring that applications are developed using best practices in coding, change and source control, technical documentation, unit testing, deployment, and are ready for high availability operations.
• Operational Oversight – Ensure that applications are delivered with the necessary performance logging, monitoring, alerting and operational runbooks. Set standards and practices for analyzing application performance and implementing service improvements as necessary. Coordinate deployments, upgrades, and patches to minimize business disruption.
• Technology Awareness – Conduct research on emerging technologies to ensure the most effective development application tools and methodologies are adopted.
• Continuous Improvement and Automation – Guide developers in identifying inefficiencies, automating workflows, refining code, and delivering new features to enhance software reliability and performance.
• Other duties – Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
• Ten or more years of experience in application design and coding as a software developer/architect.
• Five or more years of experience managing application development teams.
• Strategic thinker with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate complex ideas in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non‑technical individuals.
• Strong understanding of SharePoint development, Windows programming, web development and mobile application development.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodology.
• Familiarity with software programs used by law firms including Aderant Expert Sierra,…