Ampa - Legal & Professional Services

General Counsel

• Work closely with an experienced, supportive team on a broad variety of commercial property matters
• Commercial landlord and tenant work
• Lease management
• Commercial property sales and purchases
• Develop expertise and gain exposure to high-quality work within a collaborative environment

Commercial Property Solicitor – Legal Advisor

Paralegal

• Communicating with and updating clients, colleagues, and third parties by email, phone, and in person
• Managing administrative aspects of legal matters efficiently
• Supporting legal advisers and meeting your individual financial targets
• Attending client and third-party meetings (with or without legal advisers), taking notes, and assisting in discussions
• Drafting and preparing legal documents, including wills, powers of attorney, tax submissions, and probate applications

Paralegal – Private Client

Cloud Engineer

• A clear, board aligned Cloud Strategy & Roadmap, with target architecture and operating model baselined.
• Enterprise Azure Landing Zone established/enhanced, with policy-as-code guardrails and environment standards.
• FinOps model operational (tagging, budgeting, forecasting, optimisation cadence, showback/chargeback as appropriate).
• Core resilience & DR patterns defined and tested for business critical services.
• Improved reliability and lead time for changes (e.g., reduced MTTR, higher deployment frequency, lower change fail rate).
• A skilled, motivated Cloud Engineering team with clear skills matrix, development plans, and delivery cadence.
• Lead the Cloud Centre of Excellence, setting standards, patterns, and the Cloud adoption roadmap.
• Define and maintain the Cloud Target Operating Model (roles, skills, processes, RACI).
• Align Cloud strategy with Technology Operations, Security, Architecture, and business objectives.
• Own end to end Cloud capabilities - architecture, engineering, automation, operations, observability, lifecycle mgmt.
• Drive IaC-first delivery (Terraform) and automated configuration, using modules, pipelines, and reusable patterns.
• Guide solution design to achieve scalability, resilience, performance, security, and cost efficiency across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS.
• Deliver reliable, performant platforms with mature monitoring, alerting, incident/problem/change processes integrated with ITSM.
• Define and manage SLAs, SLOs, and OLAs, ensuring service health and capacity planning.
• Ensure effective observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights) and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Information Security to embed secure-by-design principles and shift-left practices.
• Integrate automated guardrails (e.g., Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud), vulnerability management, secrets management (Key Vault).
• Ensure compliance with relevant standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks) and regulatory obligations (e.g., GDPR, data residency/sovereignty).
• DevSecOps practices embedded (shift left security, automated controls, CI/CD gates).
• Own Cloud financial governance - tagging strategy, budgeting, forecasting, and optimisation (e.g., reservations, savings plans, rightsizing).
• Partner with Finance to implement showback/chargeback (where appropriate) and communicate Cloud economics to stakeholders.
• Track and report cost KPIs, ensuring value realisation and cost transparency.
• Define and test resilience patterns, backup/restore, RTO/RPO objectives, and application DR runbooks.
• Ensure architectural patterns meet business continuity expectations and are verified via regular exercises.
• Own Azure landing zones, policy-as-code, RBAC, network/security baselines, and Cloud posture management.
• Operate continuous compliance monitoring and remediation for Cloud controls.
• Maintain risk registers for Cloud platforms and drive remediation plans.
• Standardise Dev/Test/Pre prod/Prod environments, reference architectures, blueprints, and golden images.
• Ensure environment parity, versioning, and repeatable provisioning via pipelines.
• Manage strategic relationships with Microsoft, Managed Service Providers, and tooling vendors (backup, security, observability) as applicable to our Cloud environment.
• Ensure commercial value, support effectiveness (e.g., Unified/Premier), and contract alignment with roadmap and SLAs.
• Act as senior Cloud SME and trusted advisor to Technology, Product, and Business stakeholders.
• Communicate Cloud posture, risks, and investment options to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Lead, hire, mentor, and develop Cloud Engineers; build a learning culture and community of practice.
• Provide enablement and training for engineering and development teams to accelerate safe Cloud adoption.

Head of Cloud Services

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Responsible for business partnering legal teams, delivering excellent service and a customer-focussed approach to support the Shakespeare Martineau brand.
• Monitoring and reporting on activity throughout the month to help team leads manage performance.
• Creating and delivering insightful reporting, analysis and commentary for monthly MI including performance against targets, utilisation, management of working capital.
• Identifying areas that are not performing to expectation and providing recommendations for improvement to monthly trading meetings.
• Preparation of annual budgets and semi-annual forecasts, working with stakeholders to help set and challenge.
• Responding in a timely manner to ad-hoc analysis and information requests from fee earners and other stakeholders.
• Preparation and challenge of business cases for recruitment to ensure ROI in line with brand expectations, working closely with people teams.
• Preparation of historical profitability analysis to support decision-making including tender submissions.
• Critical review of internal processes, identifying and implementing improvements and efficiencies.
• Coaching fee earners to upskill knowledge and performance in relation to financial management
• Collaborating and liaising with the firm’s central finance teams

Commercial Finance Manager

Operations

• Working as part of a central operations team providing assistance on the co-ordination of system/data issues and the creation of client reports / KPIs / Operational trackers, whilst also supporting with other central/operational work required as and when required.
• You will be an integral part of the team supporting the Operations Manager who will be monitoring team work flow processes, helping to ensure that the day to day functions are efficient and working correctly.
• As a key interpreter between the external client and the Debt and Asset Recovery team it is essential you have full understanding of client’s requirements to ensure the internal processes meet the KPI and reporting demands of each client’s specific criteria.

Commercial Property Solicitor – Legal Advisor

Paralegal – Private Client

Head of Cloud Services

Commercial Finance Manager

Operations Coordinator