Description
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
- Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Opportunity:
We are looking for an experienced and people-focused Digital Workplace Team Leader to lead the UK Digital Workplace engineering team. This is a leadership role for someone with a strong technical background in modern workplace technologies, combined with excellent stakeholder management, communication, and team leadership skills.
The role plays a critical part in ensuring the day-to-day delivery of reliable, secure, and high-quality digital workplace services while embedding agile ways of working and continuous service improvement.
The Digital Workplace Team Leader sits within the Digital Workplace Service Delivery function and reports directly to the Digital Workplace Service Delivery Manager. You will be responsible for leading, coaching, and developing the UK-based Digital Workplace engineers, ensuring delivery aligns to agreed priorities, service standards, and sprint commitments.
While the role requires solid technical credibility across digital workplace platforms (including Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop), it is not a hands-on technical delivery role.
Your primary focus will be people leadership, delivery management, prioritisation, and stakeholder engagement.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Provide direct line management to the UK Digital Workplace engineering team.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture.
- Conduct performance management, goal setting, and career development planning.
- Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery tracking using Jira.
- Identify opportunities to improve service quality, delivery efficiency, and team effectiveness.
This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie
About you:
The successful candidate will have:
- Proven experience leading teams within a Digital Workplace / End User Computing environment.
- Strong track record of driving service transition and operational readiness.
- Experiece applying Agile practices (Jira, sprint planning, backlog management) to deliver predictable, transparent outcomes while continuously improving efficiency.
- Strong technical depth across modern workplace platforms (e.g. Intune, AVD) to guide decisions and accelerate resolution without hands-on delivery.