Law Firm Enterprise Application Engineer

Title : Law Firm Enterprise Applications Engineer

Location : Hackensack, NJ Hybrid (3 days in office)

Salary : $95,000-$150,000 (based on experience) + Bonus

Growing Established Law Firm Seeks Enterprise Applications Engineer to join their team!

Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with IT, Accounting, Marketing, Records & other firm personnel to ensure all systems & applications are optimized for peak performance
• Support team to integrate, update, administer & support the firm’s management applications including Elite 3E, Intapp (Time, Risk, Intake), Concur, Iridium reporting and analytics, Aderant Compulaw (practice specific) and Foundations (marketing)
• Administering the underlying platforms, especially Microsoft SQL, SSRS, SSIS, Active Directory and Azure AD authentication and integration, and Windows Servers.
• Coordinating with other departments and stakeholders during projects and system upgrades; assessing and communicating risk factors, primarily when integrated systems cause a trickle-down effect.
• Participating in month-end maintenance such as : Windows updates, SQL maintenance, query optimization, and security patching.
• Testing applications during system changes, enhancements, upgrades, and monthly system maintenance.
• Documenting system configurations, integrations, backup, and disaster recovery processes and other processes.
• Communicating and informing the department and management of project statuses, issues, and proposed resolutions.
• Resolving support requests / tickets escalated from the helpdesk team, including end user’ application troubleshooting.
• Managing vendor support tickets.
• Tracking and optimizing system performance and storage utilization, plan for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
• Researching and evaluating new tools / technologies to improve the current application stack.

Support and monitor firm policies and procedures as pertains to the Information Technology Department.

Skills & Expectations :

Minimum of (3) years’ experience in management, design and implementation of large enterprise applications in a diverse operation system environment with hands-on approach to maintaining critical enterprise applications with a high level of availability.

4-year college degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.

3+ years’ experience operating accounting, time tracking, billing, and management software in a legal or other professional services company strongly preferred.

Proficiency in XML / XSLT transformation.

Proficiency with some combination of PowerShell, C# and Visual Basic .Net, HTML5 or other programming or scripting languages.

Fluency in the Elite 3E SQL database schema preferred or a demonstrated ability to develop such fluency based on experience with other systems.

Proficiency in SQL administration, data queries, and reporting ( SSRS ) essential

Microsoft and other vendor certifications preferred, but not required.

Responsible for communication, coordination and backup of other members of the Information Technology Department as required to service the firm and its clients.

Must be able to handle confidential information sensitively and discreetly.