Software Development Manager

Salary: £90,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading and managing software development teams with strong people management skills.
• Experience with hands-on development, support, and implementation or migration of legal case and practice management systems.
• Experience implementing modern software development methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Ability to prioritise workloads and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Experience delivering system, data, workflow, and process migrations between enterprise platforms.
• Strong requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and solution design skills.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and technical design.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and technology partners.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage our software development function, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards.
• Oversee the design, development, support, and continuous improvement of our enterprise applications, including case and practice management systems.
• Define and maintain our software architecture, development standards, and technical best practices.
• Collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements, produce technical specifications, support Agile delivery, and clearly communicate project progress.
• Ensure appropriate testing, quality assurance, change control, and successful release of software solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement of our development processes, system reliability, and team performance.

Technologies:

• Support

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We are recruiting for a Software Development Manager to join our legal sector clients team in Manchester on a salary of £75-90k depending on experience. We are looking for someone with strong case and practice management system experience, such as Visualfiles, Proclaim, Clio Operate, ShareDo, Actionstep, or LEAP, who either has experience managing small teams or is ready to take the step into management. This is a company-critical role where you will help drive key projects and support ongoing development and improvement within our team.

last updated 31 week of 2026