Solutions Architect, Strategic

The Opportunity

Strategic Applications is a revenue‑generating legal technology team within Digital Legal Delivery. The team designs, builds, and delivers technology‑enabled legal solutions directly on client matters. It operates commercially with the majority of its work charged to client matters and directly tied to live legal processes.

The team's primary focus is the corporate and transactions side of the business. Typical work includes M&A transaction management, due diligence workflow automation, contract lifecycle management, and technology‑enabled advisory on complex corporate mandates. The team also supports a wider range of legal disciplines, including compliance, volume claims, and regulatory work.

Because the team's output is chargeable and integral to live legal processes, the standard of delivery—both technical and commercial—is the highest. Errors, delays, or poorly scoped solutions directly impact client outcomes and fee recovery.

The Solutions Architect is a client‑facing role responsible for designing and delivering the technical architecture that powers the Strategic Applications team's client solutions. This role sits at the intersection of legal process, technology, and commercial delivery.

A defining expectation is that solution design begins with the client’s need, not the firm’s technology stack. The architect must interrogate the client’s legal and commercial objectives and work backwards to a proportionate, robust and deliverable solution within the constraints of a live legal matter.

• Develop high‑level and detailed architectures aligned to enterprise standards, proportionate to the client mandate and deliverable within a chargeable engagement.
• Define end‑to‑end design across document management, workflow, AI, knowledge and data systems, starting from legal workflow.
• Design scalable integration patterns using APIs, webhooks, workflow orchestration, and agent/automation frameworks.
• Produce clear architecture documentation: process maps, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams and technical specifications.
• Map legal workflows end‑to‑end before committing to a solution, ensuring the design reflects actual practice.

• Design and build API integrations between core legal technology platforms and connected systems, including DMS, HR, finance and knowledge management systems.
• Integrate core legal technology platforms including:
  • SharePoint / SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft Power Platform
  • HighQ or alternatives (Ansarada, Intralinks, etc.)
  • Legatics
  • Kira
  • Contract Express
  • Docu Sign
  • Share Do (Clio Operate)
  • iManage / Net Documents (or equivalent DMS)
• Design integration solutions involving Generative AI‑enabled legal assistants and LLM‑based platforms, integrating tools such as Harvey, Legora, Emma Legal, and foundation models including Claude, with consideration of prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation and LLM orchestration.
• Ensure all integration architectures meet information security, data classification, access control and governance requirements.

• Partner with lawyers, innovation teams, PMOs and business services to translate legal and business needs into robust technical solutions; act as primary technical voice in client‑facing and internal scoping discussions.
• Advise on commercial implications, including cost, time and risk of proposed solutions, and scope solutions transparently for fixed‑fee or retainer engagements.
• Participate in vendor assessments, RFPs and procurement activity, evaluating new tools against client need and enterprise standards.
• Contribute to business case proposals for infrastructure gaps, aligning with IT stakeholders and firm‑wide initiatives.
• Conduct and manage proofs of concept and contribute to AI governance and risk assessments for emerging technologies.

• Take ownership of the risk profile of every solution, identifying, documenting and escalating risks before deployment.
• Design solutions incorporating data security, client confidentiality and regulatory compliance (including GDPR and…