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# Legal Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Bird & Bird
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £57,148.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Data Processing, Build Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5946676732

## About the Role

* Strong technical skills, including SQL, Python, ETL/ELT pipeline development, API integration, Cloud data platforms and data processing
 * Significant experience in data engineering, data science or a hybrid of the two
 * Experience working with lawyers, legal operations professionals or other domain specialists.
 * Experience with contracts, CLM and legal technologies required.
 * Experience in a law firm, professional services firm or similar environment expected.
 * Consulting experience within a professional services environment or similar, enabling independent performance.
 * Legal education and/or legal qualifications will be looked upon favourably although are not strictly required.
 * Highly organised with effective prioritisation skills
 * A growth-mindset and passion for finding better ways of working.
 * Dedication to client service and innovation.
 * Self-driven with keen attention to detail.
 * Able to manage multiple tasks and coordinate across teams and regions.
 * Business-minded, resilient, efficient, flexible and solution-focused.
 * Supports business development, including presentations, training, and networking to boost team and firm visibility.
 * Strong leadership abilities across junior members providing oversight and support.

## Description

An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic Legal Solutions Architect to be a part of our Legal Solutions team in London. The team are client facing and work with lawyers and other technology and innovation teams to design and deliver innovative legal solutions.

Working at the intersection of legal data, contract data, data process optimisation, data engineering and AI, the Legal Solutions Architect will work with large volumes of complex and often unstructured contractual information, run models to transform data into structured, trusted and actionable information and help drive the design and delivery of the team's portfolio of legal solutions and transformation services, including market-leading contract services and solutions for the International Commercial Group.

It is a dynamic role that will provide an opportunity to work with key stakeholders across the firm as well as directly with our clients and technology partners. The primary focus of this role will be on the delivery of high-quality legal solutions, transformation and operations services that involve data engineering and process design utilising the latest legal technologies and process-engineering methodologies. The successful candidate will work as part of a high-performance team, demonstrating strong communication and coordination skills and the ability to effectively multi-task, lead scaled global teams and manage stakeholder expectations, as well as work directly with clients at client-site., * Design and build processes for the ingestion, extraction, transformation and enrichment of contract data.

 * Transform unstructured contractual documents into structured, searchable datasets.
 * Develop scalable data models and schemas for contractual information, including parties, dates, clauses, obligations, rights, values, jurisdictions and other key contractual attributes.
 * Combine contractual information with matter, client, financial and other relevant business data.
 * Integrate data from Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms, document repositories and other core business technologies.
 * Develop robust processes for data quality assurance, validation, lineage and monitoring.
 * Innovate with leading contract intelligibility and contract analytics tools.
 * Design reusable contract data models capable of supporting multiple legal, analytical and AI use cases.
 * Develop solutions capable of moving from experimentation and proof of concept into production.
 * Assess legal contract data for language complexity and structural clarity