Director of IT Enterprise Systems

Location: Open to all Harris Beach Murtha offices (Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Long Island (Uniondale), NYC, Rochester, Syracuse and White Plains, NY; Boston, MA; Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford, CT) for a hybrid opportunity.

Do you have experience leading enterprise applications in a fast-paced professional services environment? Are you excited about the opportunity to join an innovative, growing law firm that has been successful for more than 165 years?

Harris Beach Murtha is looking for a Director of IT Enterprise Systems to lead the strategy, management, and optimization of the firm's core business systems. You will THRIVE in this role if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in IT management in a law firm or professional services environment (required)

• 3+ years of experience in both data and business analysis (preferred)
• A bachelor's degree in information technology or related field (preferred)
• Strong SQL Server skills, including writing and optimizing complex queries, troubleshooting data issues, supporting integrations, developing reports, and working with data warehouse structures and reporting datasets

The Director of IT Enterprise Systems will ensure that enterprise platforms are stable, integrated, and aligned with firm operations, while driving continuous improvements in efficiency, usability, and data quality. Do you have the DRIVE and DESIRE to:

• Lead the architecture, integration, and support of core platforms including document management, financial systems, timekeeping, intake/conflicts, and docketing systems
• Ensure reliable data integration across systems and platforms
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of system issues
• Manage major initiatives including upgrades, migrations, and new system implementations
• Improve data quality, reporting, and automation opportunities
• Ensure systems meet firm security and compliance requirements
• Serve as primary liaison with application vendors and stakeholders
• Provide efficient and continuous improvement
• Streamline workflows and reduce redundant processes
• Implement automation and AI where appropriate
• Rationalize overlapping systems to reduce complexity
• Improve system usability and adoption
• Enhance reporting to support data-driven decisions
• Occasionally travel

Harris Beach Murtha recognizes everyone has a right to be included. You will be successful in your career at the firm if you:

• Exhibit the ability to effectively multi-task, meet deadlines, and provide solutions in a fast-paced office setting

• Believe in the firm's core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment

• Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm
• Are comfortable working in the office on a hybrid schedule
• Have the flexibility to work varying hours each week (including some nights)

Harris Beach Murtha is not accepting candidate submissions from recruiting agencies for this position during the first two weeks after posting. Following this period, agencies with an active fee agreement with the firm may reach out to our internal recruitment team at View email address on click.appcast.io to inquire about potential collaboration for this position.


Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Director of IT Enterprise Systems is 40 hours per week.


Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester and Syracuse, NY: $120-$180K

NYC, Uniondale, and White Plains, NY: $150-$200K

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Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Harris Beach Murtha:

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha's New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country's top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.

Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm's practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.


The firm's lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.

The firm's policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual's race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.