Lead AI Data Scientist – AI Practice Transformation

Lawfront; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawfront is transforming the delivery of legal services with an AI-enabled platform. We seek an experienced Lead AI Data Scientist to drive production-ready AI initiatives across the UK, partnering with legal and business teams to create measurable value at scale.

You will lead the end-to-end deployment of AI solutions, from concept to production, delivering productivity gains, quality improvements, and commercial impact across the group.

Qualifications

• Experienced Data Scientist with strong track record delivering AI in production.
• Hands-on with LLMs, prompt engineering and RAG.
• Proficient in Python and SQL.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure/Databricks/Snowflake).

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to embed AI and automation within legal workflows.
• Build, test and evaluate LLM-powered solutions for production use.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and stakeholders to deploy solutions.
• Define success metrics and measure real-world AI impact.
• Develop dashboards and reporting of operational and commercial benefits.
• Monitor deployed AI solutions and iteratively improve performance.

Skills

LLMs

Prompt engineering

RAG

Python

SQL

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Lead AI Data Scientist – AI Practice Transformation

Hybrid | London & UK Travel | Full-Time

Help Transform How Legal Services Are Delivered

At Lawfront we're building the UK's leading people-led, AI-enabled legal services group. With seven firms, 800+ legal professionals and £166m in revenue, we're investing heavily in AI to transform the way legal work is delivered, priced and managed

We're looking for aLead AI Data Scientist to drive the next phase of this transformation, identifying where AI can create the greatest value, building solutions that reach production, and delivering measurable business impact across the group.

Unlike many data science roles, this isn't about building models that stay in development. You'll work directly with legal and business teams to deploy AI solutions that improve productivity, enhance quality and drive commercial performance at scale.

What You'll Do

• Identify opportunities to embed AI and automation within legal workflows.
• Build, test and evaluate LLM-powered solutions using modern AI techniques.
• Work closely with engineers, architects and business stakeholders to move successful solutions into production.
• Define success metrics and measure the real-world impact of AI adoption.
• Develop dashboards and reporting that demonstrate operational and commercial benefits.
• Monitor deployed AI solutions and continuously improve performance over time.

About You

You'll be an experienced Data Scientist with a strong track record of taking AI solutions from concept to production. You'll bring hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Python, SQL and cloud-based data platforms such as Azure, Databricks or Snowflake.

Just as importantly, you'll be comfortable working with senior stakeholders, translating business challenges into AI opportunities and demonstrating measurable outcomes that matter to the business.

Why Join Lawfront?

This is a rare opportunity to shape AI adoption at scale within a growing, private equity-backed organisation where innovation is a strategic priority. You'll have the freedom to influence direction, solve complex challenges and see your work deployed across an entire legal services group.