Legal Engineer - Software

Job description

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

Orbit Group are delighted to be recruiting for a Legal Engineer to join us in this brand new role to the organisation.

This unique opportunity will see the successful candidate take the lead in designing, building and optimising technology enabled legal services across Orbit’s in-house Legal function, combining legal process knowledge, technology capability, data and change management to improve how legal work is delivered. As a Legal Engineer, you will have a solid background in legal operations, with exposure to or a curiosity for software engineering.

Your specialist skill set will see you developing and fine-tuning our internal tech products, to ensure maximum output potential across our tech-stack, aligning them to the needs of the organisation from a legal perspective. The role will translate legal and business requirements into practical workflows, automation, AI-enabled use cases, reporting and self-service solutions, supporting a more efficient, consistent and user-focused legal service.

This role can be fulfilled primarily remotely, with travel to our Midlands/East offices once a quarter.

This role is part of Regulatory & Governance where you'll help us give colleagues the support and expertise they need to be brilliant.

What you'll achieve

Legal Engineering & Technology Delivery

• Design, configure and improve legal technology solutions that support matter intake, triage, workflow management, document generation, approvals, knowledge management and reporting.

AI, Automation & Innovation

• Identify, prioritise and deliver practical AI and automation use cases that reduce repetitive work, improve consistency and enhance the user experience for Legal and the wider business.

Process Design & Continuous Improvement

• Map current legal processes, identify bottlenecks, pain points and manual effort, and redesign processes to be simpler, clearer and more efficient.

Data, Reporting & Insight

• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports and data models that provide insight into legal demand, workload, turnaround times, external spend, trends, adoption and value.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

• Act as a translator between Legal, IT, Finance, Procurement, Governance, Risk and operational teams, ensuring solutions are practical, proportionate and aligned to user needs

Knowledge, Governance & Controls

• Support the development and maintenance of legal knowledge assets, including guidance, standard operating procedures, FAQs, templates, playbooks and training materials.

Please see role profile attached for the full list of day-to-day responsibilities.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Experience working in legal operations, legal technology, legal innovation, business analysis, process improvement or a comparable professional services technology role.
• Strong understanding of legal service delivery and the ability to work confidently with legal processes, legal documents, matter workflows, contracting or governance processes.
• Demonstrable experience mapping processes, gathering requirements and translating user needs into practical system, workflow or automation designs.
• Experience configuring or improving workflow, case/matter management, document automation, collaboration, reporting or low-code/no-code platforms.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with data, dashboards, spreadsheets and reporting tools to identify trends and support decisions.
• Good understanding of AI, automation and digital adoption opportunities in a legal or regulated environment, with a responsible and risk-aware approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to legal and non-technical stakeholders.
• Highly organised, proactive and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work collaboratively across functions.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to building solutions that are reliable, usable, well-documented and sustainable.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.

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