Applications Senior Manager

Brimstone Consulting; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm specializing in legal technology is seeking a Senior Manager for Applications to lead the Strategic Applications team. The role demands strong communication and project management skills, with a focus on delivering innovative solutions in a hybrid work setting. The ideal candidate has at least 7 years in a tech role, preferably in a legal environment, and is adept at data modeling and agile methodology.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years in technology roles within professional services.
• Comfortable with agile principles and sprint planning.
• Able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic applications products and team relationship.
• Support project requests and prioritize capacity.
• Ensure appropriate software governance structure is in place.

Skills

Experience with JS/ECMAScript 6

Strong communication skills

Agile methodology experience

Project management skills

Tools

Lucid Charts

Visio

AzureAD authentication

Job description

Overview

Location: London (hybrid working)

The Senior Manager for Applications (many Legal) will fulfil a strategic role delivering legal technology services and client facing leadership for the firm's digital business. Day to day management of the Strategic Applications team in the region along with the Managers in the team. In this senior role, they will work closely with senior internal stakeholders. Working as a senior member of the applications team, the role will enjoy a high degree of autonomy and be responsible for delivering technically creative and smart solutions that provide our clients with business strategic workflows in the selected applications platform. The role requires strong communication and interpersonal skills, decision making skills, project management skills and a strong understanding of data modelling and workflow. You will engage with clients and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic applications products (many legal applications).
• Build relationships with senior internal stakeholders.
• Working with others to ensure that the right teams are supporting project requests and appropriate prioritisation of capacity.
• Ensuring all software utilised by the applications team has appropriate governance structure around it:
  • Licence agreement details
  • IT support matrix
  • Relationship with vendors, understanding latest releases and upgrades
  • Work with the Digital Change team in relation to requests for new tech or new solutions (i.e. not already established within the strategic applications team)

Skills / Qualifications

• 7 years of experience minimum with technology within a professional services firm (Legal is desired not essential) or a related industry
• Experience within a regulated services environment (preferably legal)
• Comfortable working according to agile principles, sprint planning, scrum etc.
• Preferably have certifications in prince 2, agile or sigma 6
• Able to design and describe data construct and workflows using diagramming tools like Lucid Charts or Visio to visually represent solutions such as data formats/schema or process flows
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with multidisciplinary teams spanning technology and front line operations
• Able to explain technical concepts effectively to a nontechnical audience
• Experience with delivering technical solutions to tight deadlines
• Languages: JS/ECMAScript 6, Semantic HTML, CSS/SCSS
• Frameworks: Vue.js, REST API integration, AzureAD authentication, Automated testing, DDD/SOLID principles

Desirable understanding

• MS Office Suite Skills (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• SharePoint, Jira, Legatics
• Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps
• PowerBI, ShareDo, Contract Express, DocuSign, Neotalogic
• Luminance, Kira

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About Brimstone Consulting: We specialise in finding highly qualified staff in the following areas: Forensic Accounting & Fraud - (AML/CTF, Investigation, CFE’s etc.); Legal and LegalTech (E-Discovery, Digital Forensics, EDRM); Big Data and Data Analytics - (MI/BI/CI); InfoSec and Cyber Crime; Audit; Accountancy and Finance; FinTech (Payments etc.); Risk - (Credit, Regulatory, Liquidity, Market, Analysts - SAS, SPSS etc.); Compliance/Corporate Governance; IT - (full SDLC- BA’s PM’s , Architects, Developers etc.)

Brimstone Consulting acts as an employment agency (permanent) and as an employment business (temporary) - a free and confidential service to candidates. Brimstone Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. Due to time constraints we can only reply to applicants that match our clients’ specifications. We may store applications in our cloud storage facilities that may include dropbox.

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