Software Engineering Manager

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* The role:

** We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our IT team.

This is not just a software development role – it’s an opportunity to drive real change in the legal sector, leading the team that will help us become a market-leading, next-generation law firm.

You will lead engineers across multiple teams, raising the bar on engineering practice and accelerating the firm’s ability to deliver high-quality solutions. You will combine hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, creating clarity on standards, architecture, and delivery approach while enabling teams to move quickly and safely in a regulated, confidentiality-driven environment.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We recognise that women and other marginalised groups are often underrepresented in the legal technology sector, and we actively encourage applications from all genders and backgrounds.
** What will you do:
*** Lead and develop engineering teams:
Provide clear technical and people leadership to engineers across multiple teams/scrums. Coach, mentor, and grow capability, creating a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and high standards.
* Set and evangelise engineering standards:
Define, socialise, and uphold pragmatic engineering practices (e.g., coding standards, testing strategy, code review, branching, CI/CD, observability, incident management, documentation). Ensure consistency while allowing appropriate autonomy.
* Accelerate delivery while improving quality:
Improve throughput and predictability by tackling bottlenecks in delivery (requirements clarity, environment stability, pipeline performance, test automation, release management). Balance pace with maintainability and operational excellence.
* Own technical direction and architectural coherence:
Guide solution architecture and technical decision-making across products, ensuring scalable and secure patterns are applied consistently—particularly for AI-enabled document and data solutions.
* Champion Dev Ops and automation:
Strengthen Azure Dev Ops practices, CI/CD maturity, deployment safety, environment management, and developer experience. Drive measurable improvements in release frequency, change failure rate, and time-to-restore.
* Enable modern front-end and full-stack delivery:
Support teams building React/JavaScript/HTML solutions, ensuring solid engineering discipline, performance, accessibility, and maintainable component patterns.
* Build capability in AI/LLM engineering:
Help teams adopt effective patterns for GenAI solutions (e.g., RAG, document processing pipelines, evaluation and monitoring, prompt and tool orchestration, guardrails, and responsible use).
* Operate confidently in a legal/regulated environment:
Ensure solutions meet expectations for confidentiality, privacy, security, auditability, and appropriate governance. Partner with risk, compliance, and information security teams to deliver safely.
* Influence and drive change:
Work effectively in a traditionally change-resistant environment—building coalitions, bringing stakeholders with you, and introducing modern delivery approaches in a way that is sustainable and adopted (not just “mandated”).
* Recruit and retain talent:
Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and capability planning. Build high-performing teams with the right balance of skills across engineering, cloud, data, and AI.
* Collaborate with Product, Legal SMEs, and stakeholders:
Translate business outcomes into technical plans; shape roadmaps; manage trade-offs; and maintain transparency on risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
* Drive cloud and platform excellence:
Provide leadership across Azure-based delivery, including (as relevant) App Services, storage (Blob), Key Vault, networking, container platforms, identity (Entra ), and integration patterns. Ensure infrastructure, security, and cost management are engineered-in, not bolted-on.
** What we are looking for:
*** Proven experience…