Innovation Solutions Architect

Role profile

Building on our continued success, our innovative and
growing Osborne Clarke Solutions (OCS) team is looking for an Innovation Solutions
Architect, known internally as a Solutions Manager, to join us in Bristol or
London.

This role will have a primary focus on exploring and
piloting the use of AI technologies, data integrations, orchestration layers
and emerging platforms to enhance the delivery of legal services, working
closely with ITS, Change, and Risk & Compliance teams to pursue better ways
of working. The role carries a strong R&D focus, collaborating with OCS and
ITS leads to identify, evaluate and implement new AI tools, data integration
solutions (including Boomi and MCPs), and to explore how platforms such as Power Apps
and CoPilot can be leveraged within our existing technology stack. We currently operate a hybrid working model, enabling us to
benefit from both home and office working.

The Team Osborne Clarke's Solutions team plays a crucial role in
helping clients explore exactly how they would like legal and related services
to be delivered to maximise the value to their businesses. The team is client
led, developing new products and services to deliver existing services better,
and to deliver entirely new services to meet growing client needs. The team
operates out of the UK and Europe, with teams of ex-lawyers, and technologists
across locations.

Our Solutions programme has two key goals. First, to make
sure we're responding to client demands for greater value, efficiency and
certainty from their lawyers, whilst maintaining the highest quality. Secondly,
in helping us bring innovative ideas to the delivery of our, or our clients',
current and new, services. A significant and growing part of this innovation
involves researching, piloting and integrating AI technologies to transform how
we deliver legal services across the firm.

We want to ensure our lawyers have the best products and
resources needed to provide the best possible service to our clients.

Key

Role Responsibilities:

AI-Driven Innovation & R&D:
Spearhead initiatives to
explore, pilot and integrate existing and new AI technologies within the firm,
working in close collaboration with ITS, Change, and Risk & Compliance
teams. Beyond AI, the role will focus on exploring data integration
opportunities using platforms such as Boomi, investigating the potential of
Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and orchestration layers, and developing a
broader awareness of how tools such as Power Apps and CoPilot can be leveraged
into our existing platforms including HighQ, Legora and Contract Express. Engage
with stakeholders across these functions to identify and understand business
needs and use cases for AI, data integrations, orchestration layers and
platform enhancements in legal service delivery. Research, evaluate and pilot
new tools and initiatives to pursue better ways of working, enhance service
delivery and improve operational efficiency. This involves staying abreast of
the latest advancements in AI and adjacent technologies, conducting thorough
research and proof-of-concept exercises, and fostering a culture of innovation
and experimentation. Working alongside OCS and ITS leads, you will help guide
the firm through the transformative potential of these technologies, ensuring
that solutions are not only cutting-edge but also practical, scalable and
impactful.

Promotion of OC Solutions:
Regular engagement and
interaction with, and demonstrations to, OC colleagues regarding the solutions
available through OC Solutions; supporting the production of case studies and
other marketing material and speaking at relevant events and conferences.

Role Outline:

AI, Data & Platform

Innovation: Working with OCS and ITS
leads, research, evaluate and pilot new AI tools, data integration solutions
(including Boomi and MCPs), orchestration layers, and platform capabilities
(including Power Apps and CoPilot) to explore how these technologies can enhance
the delivery of legal services and integrate with existing tools such as HighQ,
Legora and Contract Express. Collaborate with ITS, Change, and Risk &
Compliance teams to identify use cases, run proof-of-concept pilots, and drive
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