Senior Applications Engineer, Finance

Job Title: Senior Applications Engineer, Finance Location: Its hybrid - Atlanta, GA (LOS ANGELES, Century City, Costa Mesa, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC, New York, NY, Houston, TX, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL) Requirements: Elite 3E experience 7+ years IT experience. Law firm experience. Job Description: Client is a leading international law firm that provides innovative legal solutions to many of the world's top financial institutions and Fortune Global 500 companies. With a strong presence throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., we have the global reach and extensive capabilities to provide personalized service wherever our clients' needs take us. As one of the world's leading law firms, we seek dynamic individuals who share our commitment to service, innovation, and professional growth. We have an opening for a Senior Applications Engineer, Finance. The Senior Applications Engineer, Finance acts as IT owner of several applications and platforms owned by the firm's Finance team. These include Elite 3E, Design Gallery, Chrome River, eBillingHub, IntApp Time, Proforma Tracker, Star Collect, integrations, mobility and related systems and tools. This is a highly skilled technical position responsible for day-to-day oversight, support, and administration of assigned systems. This individual partners with IT leadership and the business to define future strategy and further enhance the capabilities of existing tools. They also help lead planning and implementation efforts around new solutions. In this capacity, the Senior Applications Engineer, Finance will: IT owner of several enterprise solutions owned by the Finance team. Act as the IT liaison for Finance. This will require a sound understanding of law firm finance workflows and needs. Work on application implementations, upgrades, enhancements, troubleshooting, and roadmaps. Provide direct oversight and management of various solutions as assigned. Act as subject matter expert for those systems and provide technical support, as needed; Ensure the health and stability of all solutions owned. Be able to speak the language of the finance team in order to perform analysis of processes, application features and configurations, end user questions, etc. Build, maintain and advance a strong relationship with Elite, IntApp, and other vendors. Understand the roadmap for specific offerings and demonstrate strong knowledge of the Finance space. Monitor, track, and report on performance and capacity. Responsible for capacity planning. Work with the relevant IT teams in developing and delivering enhancements and new capabilities. Drive and manage those efforts. Deliver recommendations to the business and IT leadership based on an understanding of the platform, roadmap, and related business drivers. Maintain current and accurate architecture and support documentation for use by both engineering teams and support staff. Adhere to and participate in IT's Change Management, SDLC and incident management processes. Collaborates in the creation and use of training and Quality Assurance materials and activities for applications supported. Provides coaching to junior analysts; and Work with Quality Assurance on test scripts, procedures, and remediation. Proficiencies: Possess strong communication, organization, negotiation, critical thinking, and leadership skills as well as exceptional customer service and collaboration abilities. Advanced knowledge of multi-tier architecture including servers, databases, proxies, load balancing, trust/access rights, certificates, and integrations. Advanced knowledge of Windows Server including IIS, services, scheduled tasks, logging, and configurations. Knowledge of system integrations including APIs, web services, FTP, and database to database. Ability to manage monitoring, backups, HA, BC, DR, patching, and admin tools. Ability to work with desktop and mobile applications for their installation and configurations. Ability to work with SQL Server, SQL development/queries, and reporting tools. Ability to work with project management on plans, tasks, and resource management and tools such as Confluence and JIRA. Familiarity with scripting languages such as PowerShell. Familiarity with security best practices and procedures; and Familiarity with data governance best practices and procedures. Qualifications: At least 2 years' Foundation experience and equivalent working with CRM solutions required. At least 7 years of information technology experience (required); At least 5 years' experience working with and supporting enterprise platforms (required); At least 3 years' executive level engagement and customer service (preferred); and At least 3 years of experience in a professional services or legal environment (preferred).