Arthur Cox is one of Ireland’s leading law firms and is the 2025 IFLR Europe Awards, Irish Law firm of the year. An international firm, with offices in Dublin, Belfast, London, New York and San Francisco, as it enters its second century, our partnership continues to grow. Constant innovation allows us to service our clients in the best possible way.
Arthur Cox is at the forefront of technology adoption that drive value within the firm, its client's business, and the wider legal industry. IT operations play a central role, connecting digital capabilities to the firm’s objectives and creating a solid foundation for continued success.
Arthur Cox is on an IT transformation journey driven by a clear imperative: evolve its IT infrastructure and operations to ensure they are strategically aligned with the firm’s long-term growth and innovation goals, with a laser focus on client service delivery and operational efficiency.
Department: IT
Location: Dublin (hybrid)
Reports to: Head of IT Operations
Contract Type: 12-month FTC, Full-time
Background:
Arthur Cox is at the forefront of technology adoption that drive value within the firm, its client's business, and the wider legal industry. IT operations play a central role, connecting digital capabilities to the firm’s objectives and creating a solid foundation for continued success.
About the role:
The Technical Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex IT projects across infrastructure, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity domains. This role ensures projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to business and security objectives while maintaining high standards of governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
The role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, project delivery experience, and stakeholder management, with a focus on modernisation, resilience, and security-by-design principles.
A key focus of the role is ensuring high-quality project documentation and artefacts to support seamless operational handover.
The Technical Project Manager will have experience of change management principles and stakeholder engagement strategies, excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
The role requires strong command of both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, strong analytical skills, and the ability to rapidly adjust project focus and resource allocation due to changing circumstances to ensure projects remain relevant and achieve their core objectives.
The Technical Project Manager is a team player, embedded within the IT operations team who will need to build strong relationships with key stakeholders in the firm, cross functional teams and external vendors while demonstrating strong business/technical acumen and unrelenting focus on quality.
Project Delivery & Governance:
- Lead the planning and execution of infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity projects.
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria aligned to business priorities.
- Manage full project lifecycle using structured methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, hybrid models).
- Ensure robust governance, including RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), reporting, and escalation management.
- Deliver clear executive reporting, including status dashboards, financial tracking, and risk posture.
Infrastructure & Cloud Delivery:
- Oversee delivery of core infrastructure initiatives.
- Manage migration programmes across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Ensure solutions align with architecture standards, resilience and security requirements.
Cybersecurity and AI Security Programme Execution:
- Deliver cybersecurity initiatives aligned to firm-wide security strategy.
- Support AI security and governance initiatives including implementation of secure AI adoption frameworks.
- Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded across all infrastructure, cloud, and AI-enabled projects.
- Work closely with security teams to ensure regulatory and policy compliance (e.g., ISO 27001, 42001 and NIST frameworks).
Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the key interface between IT Operations, Infrastructure & Security teams, Business stakeholders and external vendors/service providers.
- Translate technical concepts into business-aligned outcomes and value.
- Facilitate workshops, steering committees, and executive updates.
Vendor & Financial Management:
- Manage third-party vendors delivering infrastructure, cloud, and security services.
- Track and manage project budgets, including CAPEX/OPEX forecasting and cost control.
- Support procurement processes and vendor selection.
Risk, Compliance & Assurance:
- Proactively identify and manage technical and project risks.
- Ensure projects align with internal information security policies and audit requirements.
- Support security assessments, penetration testing remediation, and audit readiness.
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related field AND
- At least 5 years’ experience in project management with a track record of delivering IT infrastructure and cyber security projects.
- Strong understanding of IT infrastructure and Security technologies, including cloud technologies/services, security, networking, servers and storage.
- ITIL Foundation or similar service management awareness.
- Strong knowledge of security principles and risk management
Certifications (Highly desirable):
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PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certification(s) certified
Key Competencies
Technical Skills:
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft technology stack.
- Strong experience with cyber security domains: IAM, cloud, endpoint and network security and vulnerability management.
- Proficiency in project management tools.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability platforms
Soft Skills:
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills written and verbal in English (individual or group) to enable effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to complete assignments with minimal direction.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to lead and motivate teams, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented environment.
- Good organisational and time management skills.
- High-quality documentation skills and process-oriented approach.
Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach.
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Additional competencies:
- Collaborative mindset and who can work independently or more often as part of a diverse team and group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Exceptional aptitude for dealing with ambiguity, unexpected emergencies, frequent interruptions, and competing deadlines.
- Proactive, flexible and adaptable disposition with a willingness to work hands-on, demonstrating attention to detail and the ability to take ownership of individual and team’s work.
- Innate curiosity and willingness to learn and evolving technology environment on an ongoing basis: develops knowledge base and skill set beyond that called for by immediate tasks and continually push the ‘knowledge envelope’.
- A continuous improvement mindset, continually critically evaluating results to drive improvements of processes and / or methods and/or underlying technology direction.
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Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave
- Leading hybrid working policy
- Immediate pension scheme
- Wide-ranging opportunities for involvement in internal committees
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including full gym and wellness programme
Arthur Cox is one of Ireland’s leading law firms and provides a comprehensive service to an international client base ranging from multinational organisations, banks and financial institutions, established global leaders to government agencies and new players in emerging industry sectors. Our story has been defined by our progressive outlook. For over 100 years, the firm has led the way in the legal field in Ireland, delivering the best service and support for our clients. With an independent, entrepreneurial spirit of innovation leading the way.
Arthur Cox LLP is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from all sections of society. Please advise if you have any additional requirements, we will happily assist. Any information disclosed by you in this regard will be kept strictly confidential and shared within the firm only as necessary and with your consent.
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