Senior Legal Engineer

About the role

Dentons Business Services EMEA supports the world's largest law firm across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Senior Legal Engineer works in the Legal Tech Enablement team, designing and implementing legal technology solutions that improve service delivery across Dentons Europe. The role leads legal engineering projects from concept to deployment, collaborates with practice groups, mentors Legal Engineers and Junior Legal Engineers, and may cover eDiscovery and litigation support.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of legal engineering projects such as automation, document assembly, data extraction and 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
• Act as main vendor contact, manage implementations and training, and present solution designs and run user testing
• Contribute to the legal technology roadmap, support business cases, ROI analysis and proof-of-concept initiatives, and help scale successful solutions
• Mentor and guide Legal Engineers and Junior Legal Engineers, foster knowledge sharing and keep documentation and performance monitoring up to date

Required profile

• 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 delivering legal tech solutions from concept to deployment
• Experience mentoring juniors or working in client-facing/consulting roles is a plus

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with workflow automation, document automation or legal applications
• Experience with legal technology platforms (document automation, workflow tools, legal AI)
• Familiarity with process mapping, software development lifecycle and testing practices
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders