Database Designer
LEAP Legal Software, New Zealand

DATABASE DESIGNER

· Our Content team creates and maintains the comprehensive library of content, including an extensive range of up-to-date, automated forms and precedents.

· Work for a Culture that values its Employees.

· Full-time, hybrid

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here!

From database design to document management and legal research, you’ll turn an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law into a more streamlined and automated global LEAP experience. As a result, LEAP helps law firms help people and make a real difference.

Our Content team creates and maintains the comprehensive library of content, including an extensive range of up-to-date, automated forms and precedents, enabling law firms to produce legal documentation quickly and consistently. Our Content team also work closely with clients to ensure they’re maximising the use of their content.

Reporting to the Content Development Manager NZ, this role will be responsible for managing LEAP’s database of fields, calculations and layouts.

· Manage a portfolio of calculations, written in JavaScript, for use by LEAP clients

· Continually improve Matter Types and tables that capture our client’s data

· Maintain and update various legal rates amp; charges across Australia, including Stamp Duty calculations, using JavaScript

· Work closely with Form Editors to continually improve the automation and functionality of legal forms

· Review and prioritise feedback from clients and staff on improving the matter types, tables and calculations in your portfolio

· Work with the latest document automation technology for the legal industry to deliver new methods of automation to our clients

· Provide assistance and support to the Content team

· Technical / professional knowledge and skills having achieved a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up with current developments and trends in areas of expertise

· Innovation generating innovative solutions in work situations; trying different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities

· Applied learning assimilating and applying new job-related information in a timely manner

· Communication clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message

· Work standards setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed

Requirements

· 3 years’ experience working with legal matters (conveyancing would be beneficial, but not essential)

· Experience using Word document automation software

· Understanding of JavaScript

· Demonstrated ability to problem-solve

Benefits

· Friendly, supportive, and driven culture

· Complimentary gym membership

· Flexible Work Environment

· Fully stocked pantry

· Monthly massages

· Celebrations for birthdays, work anniversaries, new joiners

· Generous Parental Leave benefits

· One additional paid "Be Me" leave day per year to celebrate being you!

At LEAP, we promote equal opportunity. Creating a culture of diversity and inclusion not only promotes innovation but we believe is the right way to do business. Our LEAPsters bring different cultures, genders and perspectives to their days and we wouldn't have it any other way. We welcome and encourage you to apply, no matter who you are or how you identify.

unless you are representing a third-party agency. Thanks for thinking of us, but we will not review any CVs from external recruitment agencies.

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