Technology Solution Architect

Our Technology team continues to go from strength to strength, playing a vital role in firm-wide innovation and strategy. Far from being a support function, Technology is integral to the firm's growth agenda, backed by strong leadership engagement and sustained investment.

As a Solution Architect, you will shape and drive end-to-end application and technology solutions that deliver business outcomes while aligning with enterprise architecture standards and principles. Reporting directly to the Head of Architecture, you will work across business and technology teams to understand strategic objectives, capabilities, processes, information needs and operational constraints.

You will translate these needs into coherent solution architectures spanning enterprise applications, SaaS, data, security, cloud services, user experience, interoperability and service operations. This is a broad, business-facing role that focuses on the and application-estate. Integration and API design are important components to this. You will help define target states and transition roadmaps, evaluate application and supplier options, guide delivery and ensure solutions remain supportable, secure and commercially sustainable.

• Matter Lifecycle Management :
  Modernising the end-to-end lifecycle supporting client work (from f client onboarding and matter inception through delivery, billing, closure, retention and archive.
• Client Intake, Risk and Compliance :
  Enhancing the client onboarding process, conflicts management, risk assessment, regulatory compliance and information governance.
• Practice and Financial Management :
  Improving pricing, time recording, billing, financial operations, profitability management and reporting.
• Document, Information and Knowledge Management :
  Improving how information is created, managed, governed, searched and reused across the firm.
• CRM, Marketing and Relationship Intelligence :
  Developing a joined‑up view of clients, matters and relationships to support growth and client service.
• Data, Integration and AI Enablement :
  Establishing trusted data, interoperability, analytics, AI capabilities and secure access to enterprise information.
• Application Portfolio and Service Modernisation :
  Defining application roadmaps, reducing technical debt, and driving consolidation, modernisation, re-platforming and retirement initiatives.
• Architecture Maturity and Governance :
  Strengthening architecture standards, governance, roadmaps, target‑state architectures and decision‑making across the firm.

• Develop and maintain application roadmaps, identifying opportunities for application rationalisation, consolidation, modernisation, re-platforming and retirement in alignment with business strategy and target‑state architecture.
• Facilitate discovery and solution‑shaping workshops with business stakeholders, product teams, architects and subject matter experts.
• Translate business strategy, capabilities, processes and desired outcomes into end‑to‑end application and solution architectures.
• Design solutions across enterprise applications, SaaS, data, security, cloud services, user experience, interoperability and operational support.
• Assess current‑state applications, business capabilities, process inefficiencies, dependencies and technical debt, identifying opportunities for simplification, rationalisation, modernisation and service improvement.
• Define target‑state solutions, transition states and practical application roadmaps aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Produce clear artefacts, including capability and context views, option papers, high‑level designs, application and data flows, security considerations, non‑functional…