Legal Staff Information Technology in New York City, NY

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Law Firm

New York City, NY

Legal Staff Information Technology in New York City, NY

Legal Staff

7-10 yrs required

No

Job Title: Senior Manager, Application Support

Job Responsibilities:
The Senior Manager, Application Support at the law firm is responsible for leading teams to optimize and integrate the firm's on-premises applications and cloud services. This role requires exceptional people and vendor management skills, a deep understanding of the legal application landscape, and strong collaboration and communication abilities. The Senior Manager will report to the Director of Enterprise Application and work closely with the Global Information Technology Teams. Building strong relationships with direct reports, peer managers, directors, and external vendors is essential. Additionally, the Senior Manager will need to build great relationships with their customers in HR, Finance, Marketing, and other key departments.

Essential Duties include:

Strategic Planning
- Collaborate with the Enterprise Applications leadership team and IT architects to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the firm's Application Platforms.
- Create and manage scorecards for the department's managed applications and systems, using this data to create long-term plans for these assets, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with business objectives.
- Develop data-driven strategies to enhance operations, improve decision-making, optimize solutions, and boost business efficiency.
- Develop and enhance the firm's infrastructure/solutions to be cloud-first, modern, flexible, highly available, and of industry-leading quality.
- Coordinate and collaborate with Custom Workflow and Development, AI and Data Management, and Modern Workplace teams to ensure solutions are forward-thinking and implemented with a focus on future needs.
- Unite with IT Architects to enforce data governance, security, privacy protocols, and operational/firm design standards on all solutions.

Leading Collaboration and Cross-functional Platform Design
- Participate and manage the requirements gathering process – collect, review, analyze, evaluate, estimate, prioritize, and document business requirements for supported initiatives and enterprise/team data projects.
- Design and implement solutions (applications/software/code/workflows) and services that can be operationalized at scale, enabling other teams and departments to leverage them effectively.
- Ensure solutions are practical, cost-effective, and easy to integrate into daily business operations.
- Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, Project Management Office, Organizational Change Managers, and Global Support Teams to enhance and improve changes to solutions and support processes.
- Drive innovation by incorporating AI and automation to automate legal processes and improve department efficiency.
- Effectively convey complex application and integration concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner.
- Act as the main liaison between business units and other technical teams to ensure that the solution strategy aligns with the overarching goals of the entire enterprise.

Firm Applications and Integrations Ownership
- Act as technical owner of solutions by developing supporting teams, structures, and processes that adhere to industry security, vendor best practices guidelines of assigned solutions.
- Advocate for solutions that prioritize system stability, reliability, and scalability, aligned with the firm's goals over individual client or user preferences.
- Develop, implement, and continuously refine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the department's managed applications and systems.
- Take ownership and management of vendor relationships, ensuring that these partnerships are meaningful, productive, and aligned with the firm's strategic goals.
- Serve as the technical owner for assigned solutions and collaborate with team members to respond to support, vulnerabilities, information, and audit requests.
- Oversee the designs of the platform with the goal of creating a unified ecosystem and user experience.
- Facilitate the enforcement of the firm's application and security policies by designing systems and procedures to ensure compliance.
- Encourage support teams to develop automated processes and systems to reduce day-to-day maintenance.

Management and Leadership
- Exemplify the principles of the Enterprise Applications Team, promoting a culture characterized by collaboration, innovation, adherence to enterprise processes, and a focus on achieving results.
- Participate as a member of the change control process, with responsibility for reviewing and approving solution design, engineering, and code.
- Define team roles and responsibilities, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Recruit, train, and mentor a diverse applications and integrations engineering team.
- Serve as a direct supervisor by offering mentoring, technical and social guidance, and both positive and constructive managerial feedback.
- Champion career advancement by encouraging training, professional development, and participation in seminars.
- Serve on the Enterprise Applications Department Management team, reporting metrics, updating project statuses, creating work plans, assigning tasks, and managing incident and request queues.
- Supervise daily activities of direct reports, ensuring adherence to assigned work hours and monitoring compliance with all firm and department policies.
- Participate in hiring processes, performance evaluations, counseling sessions, providing feedback, terminations, and other employee lifecycle events.

Education and Experience Information:
- . in Computer Science or equivalent education/experience.
- Ability to multi-task, lead and mentor engineers/developers, work under pressure, and handle interruptions while maintaining flexibility in work assignments.
- Aptitude to effectively communicate verbally, in writing, and interact with diverse personalities while maintaining a professional attitude.
- A minimum of 7 years of relevant people supervision and experience leading a team of 4 or more persons.
- A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated application support and administration, code/workflow development and support, or related experience in an application architecture capacity.
- Experienced in managing relationships, projects, and/or outsourcing with vendors.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft IIS, Azure Application Fabric, Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS), Azure Active Directory or Active Directory.
- A minimum of 8+ years working with multitier architecture applications or developed solutions leveraging high availability technologies.

Salary Information:
No specific salary information is provided in the text.

Benefits:
The law firm offers a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical/prescription drug coverage, dental insurance, vision insurance, wellness program, pre-tax commuting benefits, 401(k) retirement plan and profit sharing, business travel accident insurance, short- and long-term disability protection, life insurance, health advocacy services, paid time off, identity protection/restoration and fraud insurance, parental leave, student loan refinancing options, paid holidays, addiction resources, family building benefits, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, professional development and CLE credit opportunities, relocation, accident insurance, employee referral program, critical illness insurance, hybrid/remote work opportunities, hospital indemnity insurance, technology, entertainment, and travel discount programs, bereavement leave, and all other benefits required by law.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
The law firm is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and competence. Employment practices are not influenced by race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, gender, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, familial status, domestic violence victim status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The firm provides an environment free of prohibited harassment and complies with federal and state disability laws, providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.

Jul 03, 2025
Jun 13, 2025
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