DBA & Legal Applications Technician (12 month fixed term contract)

What we will offer

We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can gain early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you The Deal between the firm and its employees.

YOU CAN EXPECT

• A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies.
• Life assurance private health and dental care for you and your family.
• A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
• Tech cycle and electric car schemes.
• We support the causes you care about by giving you one day per year off to volunteer with any charity that you are involved with outside of work.
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical emotional financial and social aspects.
• Most of our roles are hybrid meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.
• We are an equal opportunity organisation committed to having a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age sex race disability sexual orientation culture or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives.

Team Structure

The team sits in the IT Department and works closely with both IT Applications and Development teams and Accounts departments with ownership of the firms key business systems including; PMS Aderant Expert Reporting & Budgeting and the Intapp suite of products as well as integrations between all of the firms systems.

The team leads innovations around the utilisation of systems best practice and develops bespoke solutions to support business needs. This position will suit an individual with proven experience in reviewing recommending and implementing both processes and solutions. They should also have good accounting knowledge Billing Accounts Payable or Cashiering processes excellent technical skills and be comfortable leading all aspects of project delivery.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsibility for maintaining the integrity and performance of SQL servers and related databases together with recommendations for enhancements.
• Management and implementation of security of all SQL Server databases including regular review as per ISO27001.
• Ownership and control of user access permissions and privileges.
• Commissioning and decommissioning of SQL Servers in all environments.
• Maintain and automate refreshes of environments patching and upgrades this may be regular or ad-hoc.
• Software installations of the firms key business systems such as Aderant Expert I4G Spotlight PTX Intapp in all environments.
• Ownership of ISO27001 within Business Systems Team.
• Testing after monthly Windows Patching (Server and PCs) Powerdown and other IT system upgrades.
• Aderant Expert Reviewing and executing fixes via SQL (post CAB approval).
• Mobile devices deployment upgrading and testing of Apps (after OS upgrades).
• Deployment of SSRS reports and maintenance of environments.

Attributes/Skills Required

• Substantial experience as a SQL Server DBA or in a similar role
• Substantial experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO)
• Substantial experience with backups restores and recovery models
• Substantial experience with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
• Familiarity with the main data manipulation languages and the principles of database design
• A willingness to keep up to date with developments in new technology
• Experience with Windows server including Active Directory preferred
• Previous law firm experience preferred

Flexibility - some out of hours working will be required; particularly around enhancements and upgrades month-end processes potential unexpected downtime and monthly server patching.

About the Firm

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm and were committed to creating positive partnerships with our clients. We represent listed and private companies institutions and individuals building lasting relationships to help them succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

Our focus is on five core sectors: Energy Transition Life Sciences and Healthcare Private Capital and Funds Technology and Transportation and Trade.

With more than 1500 people including 230 partners across ten offices in Europe the Middle East and Asia we combine deep legal capabilities and broad commercial expertise. We have also forged close ties with high quality law firms around the world blending local knowledge with global savvy for clients in over 100 countries.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

250 PARTNERS
11 OFFICES
45 LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY OUR PEOPLE

Offices in Al Khobar Athens Dubai Hong Kong London Madrid Paris Riyadh Seoul Shanghai Singapore and associated office in Guangzhou

Our brand strengths:

GO FAR GO TOGETHER

EXPERTS IN MORE THAN LAW

CAN DO PERSONALITIES

ALWAYS READY

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Contract
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1