Senior Applications Engineer (SF)

Responsibilities:

Own enterprise applications such as Compulaw, Docusign, IntApp Conflicts/Intake/Terms, Litera Desktop Suite, Research Monitor, ViDesktop, and Workday across the business development, conflicts, docketing, IT, library, and talent management departments;

Specialize in iManage user experience including features, configurations, usability, improvements, and understanding user needs;

Specialize in Litera Desktop Check, Compare, Content Companion, Contract Companion, Create, DocXtools, Forte, and Metadact;

Specialize in Practice Innovation related systems that help our lawyers be more productive;

Work on application implementations, upgrades, enhancements, troubleshooting, and roadmaps;

Provide direct oversight and management of various solutions as assigned;

Act as subject matter expert for those systems and provide technical support as needed. Ensure the health and stability of all solutions owned;

Monitor, track, and report on performance and capacity. Responsible for capacity planning;

Under direction of the Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications, engage with the business as needed in supporting the above;

Work with the relevant IT teams in developing and delivering enhancements and new capabilities. Drive and manage those efforts;

Partner and collaborate with our Practice Innovation & Legal Solutions team on various projects;

Deliver recommendations to the business and IT leadership based on an understanding of the platform, roadmap and related business drivers;

Maintain current and accurate architecture and support documentation for use by both engineering teams and support staff;

Adhere to and participate in the Firm’s Change Management process;

Provide regular updates and reporting to both the Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications and Director of Applications;

Collaborates in the creation and use of training and QA materials and activities for applications supported;

Provides coaching to junior analysts on trouble shooting and best practices;

Know common legal enterprise solutions. Advanced knowledge of enterprise applications on premise, in the cloud, and hybrid;

Work with product vendors and procurement;

Possess strong communication, organization, negotiation, critical thinking, and leadership skills as well as exceptional customer service and collaboration abilities;

Work with QA on test scripts, procedures, and remediation;

Works overtime and after-hours as required; and

Participates in on call rotation for after-hours break/fix support.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (strongly preferred);

Working knowledge of legal technology solutions preferred;

7 years’ of information technology experience (required);

5 years’ experience working with and supporting enterprise platforms (required);

3 years’ of experience in a professional services or legal environment (preferred).

Advanced knowledge of multi-tier architecture including servers, databases, proxies, load balancing, trust/access rights, certificates, and integrations;

Advanced knowledge of Windows Server including IIS, services, scheduled tasks, logging, and configurations;

Intermediate knowledge of system integrations including APIs, web services, FTP, and database to database;

Basic ability to manage monitoring, backups, HA, BC, DR, patching, and admin tools;

Basic ability to work with desktop and mobile applications for their installation and configurations;

Basic ability to work with SQL Server, SQL development/queries, and reporting tools;

Basic ability to work with project management on plans, tasks, and resource management and tools such as Confluence and JIRA;