Technical Delivery Lead

The SES Team works with legal teams and clients to develop our outward facing technology solutions and further increase our innovation offering. We at Eversheds Sutherland understand the need to ensure the fundamentals are delivered across the firm, but also that there will be a growing need to look at emerging and innovative technology to allow the firm to continue to deliver a high quality service to our Clients. The Team focuses on how we can improve the service we deliver to our Clients across the firm, whether that’s through the use of technology, innovation or process improvements.

Main Purpose of Role:

The Technical Delivery Lead is responsible for leading the technical delivery of work being carried out within the Legal Technology Solutions Team. This would involve working with the relevant Product Owners, Solution Managers, and other stakeholders to understand the overall goals and aims and managing and coordinating the technical delivery of these. They would also have responsibilities in managing our Offshore Development Team, which consists of Developers, Business Analysts and Quality Assurance Analysts, ensuring they follow best practice, good process, be on hand to help with their day-to-day delivery, as well as identifying any opportunities for improvement. They will be required to coordinate the right stakeholders to support, work with our Internal Teams to brief new work, ensure work is delivered to our quality standards, and help to ensure work is prioritised within the Team accordingly

Day-to-day activities may involve, but is not limited to, oversight/management of bespoke application development, high level architecture design/discussions, integration work, and ensuring good technical delivery practice is followed (e.g. change management, authentication, cyber security risks, etc). They would be required to ensure alignment with our D&O Teams with regards to enterprise architecture and cyber security. They would also be expected to continue to look at ways of improving existing processes to improve technical delivery across both onshore and offshore Teams.