Legal Tech Innovation Architect

Burges Salmon LLP; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Meaningful high‑impact initiatives

Job summary

Burges Salmon LLP is seeking a Legal Innovation Business Partner to join our Innovation Team. This hands-on role focuses on legal technology, automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve how we deliver legal services.

You’ll work at the intersection of law, technology and service delivery, shaping requirements, prototyping tools and guiding pilots through to firm-wide adoption with stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications

• A degree (or equivalent experience) in IT, Computer Science, Technology, Business, law, or a related discipline.
• Experience in legal technology, innovation, operations, or process automation.
• Ability to translate user needs into practical technical options.
• Strong communication skills bridging technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to improve legal and business processes through technology, automation and data-driven solutions
• Map legal workflows, gather requirements and translate user needs into designs
• Prototype, configure and support legal technology solutions, including AI-enabled tools and automation
• Lead pilots and proof-of-concepts, with testing and firmwide rollout
• Collaborate with IT, Legal Project Management, Technology Solutions and Online Services to embed new tools
• Partner with external vendors to assess functionality and fit
• Develop adoption guidance with L&D and Change teams
• Monitor usage and evidence value through case studies and data
• Stay up to date with advances in legal tech and AI

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Technical communication

Change management

Problem solving

Education

Degree in IT/CS/Tech/Business/Law

Tools

HighQ

Copilot

Power Apps

Power Automate

Power BI

Document automation

Job description

Burges Salmon LLP is seeking a Legal Innovation Business Partner to join our Innovation Team. This hands-on role focuses on legal technology, automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve how we deliver legal services.

You’ll work at the intersection of law, technology and service delivery, shaping requirements, prototyping tools and guiding pilots through to firm-wide adoption with stakeholders across the business.