Manager, IT Development

Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world.

This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

• 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 alignedto 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.

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, iManage, InTapp Open, SAP and HRIS systems is a plus
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, SQL related technologies including SSIS, SSRS, Stored Procedures, T-SQL, Master Data, Data warehousing and BI tools
• Solid understanding of IP networking, IT infrastructure, Active Directory, Information Security and IIS
• Experience in .Net Programming, C#, Web Forms, MVC, Java, JQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, Bootstraps, Web API, Visual Studio, TFS, Android SDK and Cold Fusion

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