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We have 14 offices in major financial centers around the world, but we operate as a single, integrated global partnership and not as a U.S. firm with a network of overseas locations. The firm employs approximately 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries.\nSince 1946 our lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges, whether domestic or international. We support every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen, and a human touch.\nThe Applications Engineer delivers and supports the Firm’s practice and AI technology solutions. The role works with attorneys, professional staff, internal IT teams, and vendors to configure, implement, integrate, maintain, and enhance these solutions. Key applications include document management, document automation, and AI-assisted legal drafting and research tools, among other practice technology applications.\nResponsibilities\nServe as the technical owner and primary technical resource for assigned practice and AI technology solutions.\nConfigure, customize, and administer assigned applications, including user access, permissions, data governance, and other operational settings.\nProvide level two and level three support; investigate complex issues and coordinate resolution with vendors and internal IT teams.\nPartner with attorneys and professional staff to understand legal workflows, review business requirements, and translate requirements into technical specifications for application configuration, integrations, data migration, and reporting.\nPlan and execute application upgrades, feature releases, and other enhancements in accordance with the Firm’s change-management processes.\nDevelop test plans, perform quality assurance and regression testing, coordinate user acceptance testing, and validate software deliverables.\nMaintain productive vendor relationships, manage support cases and escalations, and remain informed about product roadmaps and relevant new capabilities.\nCreate and maintain technical, operational, and support documentation, including procedures, configuration records, process guides, technical diagrams, and knowledge articles.\nCollaborate with project managers, business analysts, infrastructure teams, the Enterprise Applications team, and other stakeholders to deliver projects and operational improvements.\nWork with Information Security, Risk, Privacy, and other governance functions to support application assessments and ensure assigned solutions comply with Firm requirements.\nMonitor application health, usage, and support trends; identify opportunities to improve reliability, service delivery, and workflow efficiency.\nAssume ownership of project tasks, communicate status and risks clearly, and see work through to completion.\nSupport the evaluation and implementation of additional practice and AI technology solutions as the application portfolio evolves.\nSupport attorney and staff adoption of legal AI tools by advising on capabilities, use cases, and appropriate use consistent with Firm AI policies.\nQualifications\nBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field.\nFive or more years of relevant experience, including at least three years in application engineering, application administration, or a similar role supporting enterprise or legal technology applications.\nExperience implementing, administering, and supporting enterprise and SaaS applications, enabling and configuring third-party integrations, and working with Information Security to configure Entra ID SSO applications and permissions.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, testing, documentation, and organizational skills, including the ability to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.\nStrong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.\nAbility to work independently within a team environment, manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and take initiative.\nPreferred Qualifications\nLaw firm experience implementing and supporting solutions from vendors such as iManage, Litera, vLex, Legora, Harvey, or Anthropic.\nUnderstanding of legal workflows, document management, legal drafting, research, litigation, knowledge management, or other practice-support processes.\nExperience with legal AI tools or other AI-enabled applications, workflow automation, or AI governance.\nThe estimated base salary range for this position is $140,000 to $160,000 at the time of posting. The actual salary offered will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including skills, education, training, credentials, experience, scope and complexity of role responsibilities, geographic location, and performance. This role is exempt meaning it is not overtime pay eligible.\nCleary provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health care benefits. More information can be found here: Benefits\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination based on any category protected by law. 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