xLegal Engineer

Consilio; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 80 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal technology firm seeks a Legal Engineer to manage and deliver complex projects to clients. The candidate will require strong skills in legal operations, consulting, and project management. Responsibilities include leading project design, gathering requirements, and facilitating client workshops. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field and experience with CLM systems like Ironclad is essential. Join a collaborative team dedicated to transforming how legal departments operate.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in legal operations, consulting, or implementation roles.
• Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and legal workflows.
• Experience creating functional solutions for legal business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead high complexity legal technology projects from design to deployment.
• Gather, refine and document business requirements from customers.
• Design contract automation or workflow solutions.

Skills

Legal operations expertise

Consulting skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Technical delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Law, Computer Science, Business, or a related field

Tools

Ironclad

DocuSign

Agiloft

Icertis

Job description

Overview

The Ironclad team works on exciting and innovative projects to deliver the entire Ironclad Contract Lifecycle Management platform to global and enterprise clients. You will work closely with our clients and cross functionally with Consilio’s Consulting, Data Services etc. teams to manage the end-to-end delivery of CLM projects.

The Legal Engineer will drive business growth by understanding client requirements and building strategic solution to transform how our clients operate their legal departments. The Legal Engineer will have the breadth and depth of experience of working in the legal industry and a deep hands-on technical skills capability to configure Ironclad.

The Legal Engineer acts as the key solution and technical advisor for the client, which will include facilitating workshops and delivering implementation projects from requirements gathering all the way through to hypercare and post-implementation support.

Responsibilities

• Leading high complexity legal technology projects from design through to build, testing, and deployment.
• Working with customers to gather, refine and document business requirements.
• Holding workshops with customers, capturing business requirements and designing functional solutions to legal business problems.
• Designing contract automation or workflow solutions in the form of business process flows, variables tables, automation mark-ups etc.
• Producing artifacts such as business requirements documents, process flows, variables tables, automation mark-ups.
• Ensuring that the agreed deliverables and functional requirements are delivered to the client.
• Producing and signing off on testing plans – QAT and UAT – and delivering demos to customers and supporting with UAT.
• Point of escalation for projects – collaborating with the wider project team to resolve issues, mitigate problems and communicate challenges/blockers as well as remedial actions.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring team members within the Ironclad practice.
• Preparing project estimates along with the technical delivery team.
• Stakeholder and project management – overseeing the delivery of projects to ensure they are delivered on time and on budget.
• Managing client relationships, leading the pre-sales process and performing demos etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Law, Computer Science, Business, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in legal operations, consulting, or implementation roles
• Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and legal workflows
• Experience with Ironclad or similar CLM platforms (e.g., DocuSign, Agiloft, Icertis)

Consilio’s True North Values

• ExcellenceWe strive to make every client our advocate
• PassionWe DO because we CARE
• CollaborationWe win together through teamwork and communication
• AgilityWe flex, adapt and embrace change
• PeopleWe value, respect and invest in our teammates
• VisionWe create clarity of purpose and a clear path forward

Consilio, LLC is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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