Legal Solutions Architect

Freshfields; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Freshfields, a global law firm, seeks a technology and AI-focused innovator to join our legal tech team in the UK. You will identify AI opportunities, translate workflows into designs, and lead end-to-end AI-enabled solutions that improve service delivery, knowledge management, and efficiency.

Collaborating with lawyers, product managers, and engineers, you’ll prototype ideas, drive governance, privacy, and responsible AI standards, and help scale successful solutions firm-wide.

Qualifications

• Identify and prioritise AI and legal technology opportunities.
• Translate workflows into technical design documents for architecture review.
• Design end-to-end AI-enabled solutions for legal service delivery and knowledge management.
• Build prototypes and proofs of concept to validate designs.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements and guide delivery.
• Evaluate emerging AI and automation capabilities for practical applications.
• Ensure solutions align with architecture, security, governance and privacy standards.
• Lead workshops and user testing to validate requirements and drive adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement to scale and standardize legal technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with lawyers, practice groups and business stakeholders to identify AI opportunities.
• Translate requirements into solution designs and architecture documents.
• Design AI-enabled solutions that enhance knowledge management and efficiency.
• Create prototypes and proofs of concept to validate designs before engineering effort.
• Work with Product Managers and Engineers to define features and prioritize delivery.
• Assess new AI capabilities and recommend practical uses for the firm.
• Ensure alignment with governance, security and privacy policies.

Skills

AI Strategy

Legal Tech

Solution Design

Prototype Development

Stakeholder Management

Governance & Security

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.

Inclusion

Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing.

Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case by case basis and take a number of factors into account (eg the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence). You would have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.