The Opportunity:
We are looking for an experienced and people-focused Digital Workplace Team Leader to lead the UK Digital Workplace engineering team.
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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 Glasgow office with hybrid working.
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site
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.
What makes Ashurst a great place to work?
We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:
* competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
* flexible working;
* corporate health plans;
* a global professional development offering for all employees; and
* an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.
We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.
We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.
Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. xsngvjr It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.