About Ashurst Advance:

Ashurst Advance is a global leader in the delivery of innovative and digitally enabled legal services. Leveraging our deep experience across delivery, managed services, digital, legal operations and flexible resourcing, we work seamlessly with our legal advisory and risk consulting teams to provide fully integrated solutions to address our client's most complex legal challenges.

What we can offer you:

The future of legal services is at the centre of the firm's strategy, and we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our objectives and grow our unique offering. By joining us you will be at the forefront of change in the legal industry and part of a team devoted to innovation, global collaboration, diversity, and growth. We also offer award winning Learning & Organisational Development and Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging programs and a range of benefits including, subsidised gym membership, discounted health insurance, complimentary health and wellbeing support programs, study support, annual bonuses (in accordance with our bonus scheme), flexible working, and 26 weeks parental leave, to name a few.

If you are looking for a career with a difference and want to be part of a global team working with high profile clients doing cutting-edge work, we would love to hear from you.

About the role:

Ashurst Advance Digital (AAD) is the firm's technology and experience powerhouse. We work with our New Law business to develop differentiated services for our clients, whilst embedding digital as a competency for the whole firm through developing and enabling future-fit tools, capabilities and mindsets.

Ashurst Labs is the community within AAD responsible for the firm's experimentation environment, designing, developing and managing digital platforms, products and solutions, together with the curation, ownership and governance of platforms used by Ashurst Advance. It does this through the three disciplines of software development, product management, and data science.

As a result of strategic growth, we are currently looking to hire a Developer in either Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne. This is a new role to the team as we continue to expand our capabilities. The role is focused on designing, developing, maintaining, and connecting applications, integrations, and AI-enabled solutions within our Microsoft ecosystems including Azure, Power platform and M365. You'll work within our cross-functional agile teams to create and support client-facing solutions and internal initiatives. As legal work is increasingly digitised, the need to structure, store and manipulate our client's data and our own content is a key differentiator.

We believe the role offers the right candidate a chance to join a team at an exciting stage of expansion, to see initiatives through from idea to implementation and to shape and drive transformation in a firm committed to outpacing change.

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers site as it goes into more detail about the role and what we can offer.

About you:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Developer Associate) are highly desirable.
• Experience: Minimum of 4 years of experience in a Developer role with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and genAI. Additional experience with the Power platform and M365 development and integration with be highly regarded.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Azure services including Function Apps, Logic Apps, API Management, and Azure AI services. Power platform development experience is desirable.
• Programming Languages: Expertise in programming languages such as Python, C#, JavaScript, or similar.
• DevOps: Experience building and managing Azure CI/CD pipelines and/or Power Platform deployments using Azure DevOps. Understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) practices (Bicep or Terraform).
• Expertise and interest in generative AI and the risks and opportunities it presents in software tools and the development of those tools.
• Experience in a technology innovation role within a professional services business is desirable.

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: globalresourcing@ashurst.com for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.

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