Remote Lead Enterprise Architect (Interim) — UK Firm

Intelance Digital Enablement Services Ltd.; Greater London; Remote; GBP 138,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily rate £750–£850

Remote work within the UK

Potential ongoing part-time architect

Defined scope and client templates

Job summary

Intelance is seeking a freelance Lead Enterprise Architect to conduct a fixed-scope enterprise architecture review for a large UK professional services firm. You will lead day-to-day work and stay on as interim architect if follow-on is awarded.

The review runs over four to six weeks with around 18 days, and may include two days weekly for eight weeks if the follow-on proceeds. The work is mainly remote within the UK, with some days at client offices in England.

Qualifications

• Lead or head of enterprise architecture in a UK law firm, or in another professional services partnership of around 1,000 people or more.
• You have set up an architecture function, design authority or technology decision forum from scratch.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Knowledge of Aderant, InterAction or legal document management systems is a strong plus.
• You write costed options papers yourself and present them with confidence to a Chief Operating Officer or board.
• You work well alongside capable internal teams and build on what they already have.
• Independent of software vendors. You must not currently work for, or resell products from, a legal software supplier, a Microsoft partner or an IT services provider to the client.
• Available from early November 2026 to early March 2027, at three to four days a week during the review.
• Based in the UK with the right to work here, and willing to complete the background checks the client requires.

Responsibilities

• Lead the review from the first meeting to the final presentation, as the client’s day to day contact.
• Start from the records the client already keeps, such as integration documents, system lists and project records.
• Run eight to ten one hour conversations with the heads of applications, IT operations, data, client solutions and the project office.
• Build one clear picture of the whole technology estate: systems, connections, data flows and owners.
• Trace two or three recent technology decisions from the first request to the current owner.
• Write a priority risk report and three costed options for how the firm should own technology decisions, always including keeping its current model.
• Present the findings and options to the Chief Operating Officer with Intelance’s engagement partner.
• If the follow on goes ahead, act as the firm’s interim architect two days a week. Set up a technology decision forum, prepare the first three decisions for it and hand over the estate map as a working tool.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Lead Architect

UK Law Firm Experience

Architecture Function Setup

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Aderant

InterAction

Job description

Intelance is seeking a freelance Lead Enterprise Architect to conduct a fixed-scope enterprise architecture review for a large UK professional services firm. You will lead day-to-day work and stay on as interim architect if follow-on is awarded.

The review runs over four to six weeks with around 18 days, and may include two days weekly for eight weeks if the follow-on proceeds. The work is mainly remote within the UK, with some days at client offices in England.