Senior Visualfiles Developer

Department: IT
Location: Remote or Any UK Location (excluding London)
Duration: Permanent
Reports to: IT Development Manager
Direct reports: None
Reference Number: 9619

Role

This is a key role in modernizing our case management ecosystem integrating cloud services automating workflows and ensuring our solutions are secure scalable and aligned with legal sector compliance standards.

Youll take ownership of developing testing supporting and maintaining our Visualfiles case management system and a portfolio of applications including our Azurebased Everyfile platform and other custom-built solutions used by our Partners and legal teams.

This role is best suited to candidates with approximately 5 years experience in application development or case management systems.

Responsibilities

• Design develop test and implement Visualfiles Everyfile and other custom applications to streamline business processes for Partners and legal teams.
• Manage projects through the full development lifecycle from gathering requirements and making recommendations to delivery and post implementation support.
• Work closely with the Product Owner to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and contribute to backlog refinement and user story quality.
• Research evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve automation cloud integration and user experience.
• Apply lessons learned from previous projects to improve functionality and ensure best practice design.
• Provide architectural guidance technical estimates and identify risks dependencies and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with external consultants third party vendors and the internal Infrastructure/Data Centre team to ensure applications meet standards for resilience monitoring security and disaster recovery.
• Provide training and knowledge sharing to clients and colleagues when required.
• Report on project progress to the Manager and support ongoing optimisation of systems and processes.

Experience Skills & Knowledge

Essential Technical Skills

• Proven experience delivering applications through the full project lifecycle.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Visualfiles Case Management.
  • Visualfiles application development including scripting.
  • Visualfiles Pro2SQL and Visualfiles SDK.
• Experience with SQL databases document management systems (e.g. iManage) reporting tools such as Power BI and system integration.
• Understanding of modern cloud architecture principles (PaaS IaaS SaaS) microservices API first design and middleware/integration layers.
• Working knowledge of Azure services including: App Services Functions Logic Apps Azure SQL/Managed Instances and Key Vault.
• Understanding of secure coding practices data protection principles (e.g. GDPR) and role based access control (RBAC).

Desirable Technical Skills

• Knowledge of HTML XML JavaScript CSS C# .NET.
• Experience using Azure DevOps Jira or similar tools and version control systems (Azure DevOps Git).
• Microsoft Office development (VBA/macros).
  
  

Methodologies

• Experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) project scoping and business requirements analysis.
• Strong business process analysis skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Personal skills / attributes

• Positive collaborative team player with a can do attitude.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with strong documentation skills.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and client facing capability.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of the business value of technology.
• Calm professional decision making under pressure using tact and good judgement.
• Methodical accurate and quality focused approach to work.
• Demonstrates initiative resilience and proactive problem solving.
• Reliable professional and able to follow established processes and support senior IT leadership.
  
  

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries Dentons helps you grow protect operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric purpose-driven and committed to inclusion diversity equity and sustainability we focus on what matters most to you.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons here: Inclusion and Diversity.

Equal Opportunities

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity nationality neurodiversity disability or with parental or caring responsibilities. We also offer flexible working hours.

During the application process all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

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