Database Developer

Description
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.

To find out more please visit our website .

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

• Flexible work options
• Market leading parental leave of 26 weeks paid leave irrespective of gender
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and corporate health plans
• Genuine opportunities to grow your career through secondments or global opportunities,
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including tailored professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring and study support for further education.
• We have a strong commitment to social impact, demonstrated by our extensive volunteering and pro-bono opportunities, as well as our award-winning social inclusion and mobility programs.
• We are committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The Opportunity:
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.

This new role is focused on specifying, creating, maintaining and connecting databases within our Azure environments. You'll work within our cross-functional agile teams, and alongside the Labs team 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. This new, growth opportunity 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.

A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in database engineering or administration, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure. Experience in a technology innovation role within a professional services business is desirable.
• Proficiency in Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Factory, and other Azure data services. Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Database Administrator Associate) and experience in building RAG based GenAI applications within Microsoft Azure are highly desirable.
• Expertise in programming languages such as C#, JavaScript, Python, or similar.
• Experience and confidence with development tools and methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
• Passionate about getting your hands dirty and working proactively in a fast-paced, constantly adapting environment. You'll need high attention to detail, the ability to work with cross-functional teams, and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise and interest in generative AI and the risks and opportunities it presents in software tools and the development of those tools.
• Experience in building RAG based GenAI applications within Microsoft Azure 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.

For more information or if you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: 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.