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Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Application Support to join the firm.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a pivotal member of the K&L Gates Information Technology Department, the Senior Manager of Applications and Integrations leads teams to optimize and integrate the firm's on-premises applications and cloud services. This dynamic, hands-on role demands exceptional people and vendor management skills, a deep understanding of the legal application landscape, and strong collaboration and communication abilities.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

The Senior Manager, Applications and Integrations 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 Managers will also need to build great relationships with their customers in HR, Finance, Marketing, and other key departments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Strategic Planning

• Collaborates with the Enterprise Applications leadership team and IT architects to help define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the firm’s Application Platforms.
• Creates and manages scorecards for the departments 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 the 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 are implemented on all solutions (applications / software / code / workflows).

Leading collaboration and cross functional platform design

Firm Applications and Integrations Ownership

Management and Leadership

EXPERIENCE SKILLS REQUIRED

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world. We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

The industry recognition the firm has garnered emanates from the foundation of a global community aligned on behalf of our clients. The people at K&L Gates are committed to working together to create a legacy for each other, the firm, our clients, and the communities in which we serve. We thrive in an inclusive and socially conscious environment that embraces diversity and takes a holistic approach to the career evolution of all our professionals.