高级法律工程师
Senior Legal Engineer
Dentons Business Services EMEA 是 Dentons 的运营核心，为全球最大的律师事务所提供支持，助力其在欧洲、中东和非洲地区为客户交付卓越服务。作为 Dentons 全球网络的重要组成部分，我们的 EMEA 业务服务团队在推动效率、创新和协作方面发挥关键作用。
在 Dentons Business Services EMEA，我们致力于通过前沿解决方案支持法律专业人士。我们充满活力且多元化的团队无缝协作，提供包括财务、IT、人力资源、市场营销等在内的多种服务。我们以持续改进和适应性文化为荣。
职位目的
高级法律工程师在法律科技赋能团队中扮演关键角色，设计并实施提升 Dentons 欧洲地区服务交付的法律科技解决方案。该职位结合技术专长与法律流程知识，为律师和客户提供自动化、流程优化和创新工具。这是在一家领先的国际律所中塑造法律服务交付方式的可见机会。成功候选人将在法律、技术和创新的交汇点上工作，引领有意义的变革，交付实用解决方案，并帮助在多个司法管辖区扩展法律科技能力。
高级法律工程师从概念到部署领导法律工程项目的实施，与业务部门紧密合作以理解需求，并指导法律工程师和初级法律工程师。他们作为专业领域专家，参与法律科技项目的战略方向。
职责包括开发自动化解决方案、实施法律科技平台、优化法律流程、构建定制应用和集成，以及管理与选定技术供应商的关系。该职位还涉及利益相关者沟通、方案设计、用户培训，并确保已部署系统的质量和可扩展性。
某些职位可能还涉及电子发现和诉讼支持方面的专业职责。
该职位提供了发展领导能力、深化法律科技专业知识并为事务所创新战略做出贡献的机会。
职责：
- 领导法律工程项目全流程交付（自动化、文档生成、数据提取）
查看英文原文
Dentons Business Services EMEA is the operational backbone of Dentons, supporting the world's largest law firm in delivering exceptional service to clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As a crucial component of Dentons' global network, our EMEA business services team plays a key role in driving efficiency, innovation, and collaboration.
At Dentons Business Services EMEA, we are committed to excellence in supporting legal professionals with cutting-edge solutions. Our dynamic and diverse team collaborates seamlessly to provide a wide range of services, including finance, IT, human resources, marketing, and more. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.
Job Purpose
The Senior Legal Engineer plays a key role within the Legal Tech Enablement team, designing and implementing legal technology solutions that improve service delivery across Dentons Europe. The role combines technical expertise with legal process knowledge to deliver automation, workflow optimisation, and innovative tools for lawyers and clients. This is an opportunity to play a visible role in shaping how legal services are delivered across a leading international law firm. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation, leading meaningful change, delivering practical solutions, and helping scale legal tech capability across multiple jurisdictions.
Senior Legal Engineers lead legal engineering projects from concept to deployment, collaborate closely with practice groups to understand requirements, and mentor Legal Engineers and Junior Legal Engineers. They act as subject matter experts and contribute to the strategic direction of legal technology initiatives.
Responsibilities include developing automation solutions, implementing legal technology platforms, improving legal workflows, building custom applications and integrations, and managing relationships with selected technology vendors. The role also involves stakeholder engagement, solution design, user training, and ensuring the quality and scalability of deployed systems.
Some positions may also involve specialised responsibilities in eDiscovery and litigation support.
This role offers opportunities to develop leadership capabilities, deepen expertise in legal technologies, and contribute to the firm’s innovation strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of legal engineering projects (automation, document assembly, data extraction, custom applications).
- Analyse legal workflows with practice groups and design technology solutions to optimise processes.
- Build and configure solutions using automation and low-code/no-code platforms.
- Prepare technical specifications, implementation plans, and documentation.
- Test, troubleshoot, and maintain deployed solutions.
- Work closely with partners, lawyers, Technology, and Business Development teams to deliver solutions.
- Act as the main point of contact for vendors, managing implementations and training.
- Present solution designs, run user testing, and support adoption across teams.
- Contribute to the legal technology roadmap and evaluate new tools.
- Support business cases, ROI analysis, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to scale successful solutions across practice areas.
- Mentor and guide Legal Engineers and Junior Legal Engineers.
- Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Maintain documentation, monitor solution performance, and implement improvements.
- Stay up to date with legal tech developments and share insights with the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, Computer Science, Engineering, Social Sciences, or a related field.
- Advanced degree or certifications in legal tech, innovation, or technology (preferred).
- 4+ years of experience in legal technology, legal engineering, legal operations, software development, or a related field in delivering legal tech solutions from concept to deployment.
- Hands-on experience with workflow automation, document automation, or legal applications.
- Experience mentoring junior team members or working in client-facing/consulting roles is a plus.
- Strong understanding of legal workflows and service delivery. Ability to assess technical feasibility while keeping user experience and business value in focus.
- Experience with legal technology platforms (e.g., document automation, workflow tools, legal AI).
- Familiarity with process mapping, software development lifecycle, and testing practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Lead change management efforts to ensure new tools and workflows are embedded successfully across teamsExcellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and influence stakeholders. Build trusted relationships with partners and senior stakeholders to identify opportunities and drive adoption of legal technology solutions.
- Highly organised, proactive, and comfortable working in dynamic environments.
- Mentorship mindset with a collaborative, client-focused approach.
Benefits
· Remuneration and benefits package will reflect the successful candidates experience and country where hired.
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