Applications Senior Manager

Brimstone Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Applications Manager to lead legal technology services and client-facing initiatives. This pivotal role involves managing a strategic applications team, fostering relationships with senior stakeholders, and ensuring the delivery of innovative solutions that enhance client workflows. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in technology within professional services, with a keen understanding of data modelling and agile methodologies. Join a dynamic team where your expertise can drive significant impact and contribute to the evolution of digital business solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technology within professional services, preferably legal.
• Strong communication and project management skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic applications products and build relationships with stakeholders.
• Ensure software governance and support project requests effectively.

Skills

Communication Skills

Project Management

Data Modelling

Workflow Design

Agile Principles

Technical Solution Delivery

Interpersonal Skills

Technical Concept Explanation

Education

7+ years of experience in technology

Certifications in Prince 2, Agile or Sigma 6

Tools

Lucid Charts

Visio

MS Office Suite

SharePoint

Jira

Legatics

Power Automate

Microsoft Power Apps

PowerBI

DocuSign

Job description

Applications Senior Manager

Location: London (hybrid working)

The Role

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.

Duties

• 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

Desired understanding of:

• 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