Solutions Developer

We have always done things differently at Knights; some 11 years ago we were the first organisation of our type in the UK legal sector to attract private equity investment, enabling us to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure, creating a clear separation between management/ownership and fee earners.

The success of our model was reflected in very attractive growth over the following 6 years and since our listing on the AIM market in June 2018, we have reported year on year growth.

Now with nearly 1500 colleagues across 26 locations our strong organic growth, combined with several high-quality recent acquisitions in Newcastle, Bristol, Brighton, and Portsmouth means we are now a more diversified business with strengthened positions in our key target markets. We have the team and financial resources in place to deliver our organic and acquisitive growth strategy as we scale up to be the leading legal and professional services business outside London.

Our business model and culture remain a clear differentiator from many legal services businesses enabling us to recruit individuals who wish to work as ‘one team’, in a modern professional services business.

We are now seeking a talented individual to join our busy and growing IT Team. The successful candidate will be excited to take on a variety of projects and really contribute to a forward thinking, progressive professional services firm within a growing function of the business.

Main Duties:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Competencies:

● Responsible for the development and improvement of our Practice Management Systems

● Build browser based web solutions that meet the changing needs of the business and drive efficiency as part of our ongoing automation program

● Integrate with third party providers by consuming API’s. This could extend building out API wrappers

● Ensure that industry standards and best practices are applied across the development and database environments, leading to systems that are secure, robust and optimised

● Produce and maintain documentation contributing towards the wider development infrastructure

● Produce estimates (high-level and detailed) for development work

● Balance work on multiple projects at one time

● Maintain databases and objects such as tables, stored procedures, views, triggers, Indexes

● Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration

● Profile server resource usage, and optimise as necessary

● Maintain interfaces with other systems both internal and external

● Collaborate within a cross functional team to help shape technical solutions and direction

● Work well with ever-changing processes to meet our company needs and requests

Experience and Skills:

● .NET framework / .NET Core (C#)

● ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Functions

● Excellent understanding of Microsoft SQL Server

● Expert-level T-SQL skills

● Ability to write clean, efficient, readable and well documented code

● Proven experience of creating and implementing effective testing plans

● Experience of using code repositories

● Capable of troubleshooting common databases issues and debugging stored procedures

● Skilled at optimising large, complicated SQL statements

● Familiar with tools that can aid with profiling server resource usage and optimization

● Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success

● Previous experience of helping to deliver projects accurately and on time

● Critical thinker and strong problem-solving skills

● A proven team player, who can support others and who can adapt to changing and conflicting priorities

● The ability to prioritise high volumes of responsibilities without delays in deliverables

● A confident and effective communicator who is proactive, self-motivated with a can-do attitude

● Strong attention to detail and willing to expand your skill set to overcome existing challenges

Additional Desirable Skills:

● Experience of Legal Sector

● Agile development principles

● Experience of using Continuous Integration

● Azure Stack; Power Automate, Microsoft Power Apps

● Azure DevOps pipelines

● Microservice Architecture

● HTML, JavaScript

● KNIME

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a rapidly expanding company - one of the fastest growing law firms in the UK - where you will find excellent development opportunities and support to be the best you can be. We offer a competitive salary, modern surroundings, and great potential for career development.