Legal Solutions Architect

Freshfields; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Freshfields in Abu Dhabi is seeking a senior role to drive AI-enabled lawtech initiatives that enhance service delivery, knowledge management, and research. You will translate complex legal workflows into scalable designs and lead workshops with lawyers, product managers, and engineers to validate concepts.

The role emphasizes collaboration, governance, privacy, and responsible AI, with opportunities to scale and standardize innovative solutions across practice groups.

Qualifications

• Experience identifying AI and legal technology opportunities.
• Ability to translate workflows into solution designs and architecture considerations.
• Experience leading workshops and user testing to validate concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with lawyers and stakeholders to identify AI and legal tech opportunities.
• Translate legal workflows and requirements into solution designs for architecture reviews.
• Design end-to-end AI-enabled solutions for legal service delivery and efficiency.
• Build prototypes to validate designs before engineering resources are used.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define requirements and priorities.
• Evaluate emerging AI and automation capabilities for practical firm applications.
• Ensure solutions align with security, privacy and governance standards.
• Lead workshops and discovery sessions to validate requirements and drive adoption.
• Drive scaling and standardization of legal technology solutions.

Skills

AI strategy

Legal tech

Requirements gathering

Prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

At Freshfields, technology and innovation are embedded into how we work with our clients. We’re a global law firm with more than 5,500 people across 33 offices, and we are continuing to advance our innovation strategy including investment in key technology. Our partnerships with Anthropic and Google as well as the investment in Freshfields Lab and AI Academy are but a few examples.

Join us to work on some of the most exciting challenges at the intersection of law, technology and business.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with lawyers, practice groups, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI and legal technology opportunities.
• Translate legal workflows and business requirements into solution designs, and author technical design documents that carry them through architecture, security, and governance review.
• Design end-to-end AI-enabled solutions that enhance legal service delivery, knowledge management, research, drafting, and operational efficiency.
• Build prototypes and proofs of concept to validate solution designs before committing engineering resources.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements, prioritize features, and guide delivery.
• Evaluate emerging AI, legal technology, and automation capabilities and recommend practical applications for the firm.
• Ensure solutions align with architecture, security, governance, privacy, and responsible AI standards.
• Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and user testing to validate requirements and drive adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to scale, standardize, and enhance legal technology solutions.

Experience and Skills

• Partner with lawyers, practice groups, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI and legal technology opportunities.
• Translate legal workflows and business requirements into solution designs, and author technical design documents that carry them through architecture, security, and governance review.
• Design end-to-end AI-enabled solutions that enhance legal service delivery, knowledge management, research, drafting, and operational efficiency.
• Build prototypes and proofs of concept to validate solution designs before committing engineering resources.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements, prioritize features, and guide delivery.
• Evaluate emerging AI, legal technology, and automation capabilities and recommend practical applications for the firm.
• Ensure solutions align with architecture, security, governance, privacy, and responsible AI standards.
• Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and user testing to validate requirements and drive adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to scale, standardize, and enhance legal technology solutions.