Team

is responsible for the creation and maintenance of bespoke applications that enable the firm to perform more productively or to deliver competitive advantages. The team is largely split between the UK and India.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work alongside an agile squad of developers working closely with the product owners to deliver product enhancements and new products to ensure the practice is equipped with the best tools to all them to provide a high quality of service
  • Analyse project scope and help to define and set technical direction to help achieve the milestones for the various initiatives
  • Contribute to the overall data strategy so that the firm is best positioned to build suitable future functionality
  • Manage the CRUD application landscape from an architectural perspective delivering single views of master data
  • Be a trusted advisor to the firm on best practice software development, including risks, timelines, trends, and appropriate development methodology and technologies for a given objective.

    • Required experience

  • Development and support of enterprise applications essential
  • Knowledge of SQL server 2014+ essential
  • Writing T-SQL, creation of jobs, stored procedures and functions essential
  • Creating table indexes to improve database performance essential
  • Data transformation / SSIS essential
  • Creation of data source essential
  • Visual Studio 2019+ essential
  • Source control, GIT essential
  • Use of different reporting tools (Power BI, SQL Reporting Services, etc) desirable
  • Working within a distributed development team (15+) desirable
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies desirable
  • XML desriable
  • Azure DevOps desirable
  • Knowledge of third party tools, such as SQL Redgate desirable.

    • About Kennedys

    Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,400 people worldwide across 43 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

    Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

    We’re a fresh-thinking firm, and we’re not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

    What do we have to offer?

    We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you’ll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

    Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable,straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

    We develop careers in an innovative and collaborative global environment, with our values at the core. We believe that supporting individual growth and development puts us in the best position to attract and retain talented individuals. Regardless of role or level, everyone has access to virtual learning to help you develop your skills, wherever you are in the world. A variety of other exciting opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices as well as a comprehensive benefits package (details are available upon request).

    We’ve created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust. We deeply value the relationships we build with our clients and we know that they value our warm, friendly human approach. We are here to provide answers, recommendations, strategy and tactics.

    Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.