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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Your goals. Our ambition
The Opportunity
Strategic Applications is a revenue-generating legal technology team sitting within Digital Legal Delivery. The team designs, builds, and delivers technology-enabled legal solutions directly on client matters. This is not an internal IT function — the team operates commercially, with the majority of its work charged to client matters and directly tied to live legal processes.
The team's primary focus is the corporate and transactions side of the business, which the firm is actively investing in and growing. Typical work includes M&A transaction management, due diligence workflow automation, contract lifecycle management, and technology-enabled advisory on complex corporate mandates. The team also supports a wider range of legal disciplines, including compliance, volume claims, and regulatory work.
Because the team's output is chargeable and integral to live legal processes, the standard of delivery — technically and commercially — is the highest. Errors, delays, or poorly scoped solutions have direct consequences for client outcomes and fee recovery. Every member of the team is expected to understand this environment and to take personal responsibility for the quality and risk profile of their work.
The Solutions Architect and Senior Analyst are two new, complementary roles being introduced to strengthen the team's capability. The Architect is responsible for designing and integrating the technical infrastructure underpinning client solutions; the Senior Analyst is responsible for executing those solutions at the delivery level. The two roles are designed to work in close collaboration and are expected to maintain a shared understanding of the end-to-end workflow on every engagement they work on together.
The Solutions Architect is a critical, client-facing role responsible for designing and delivering the technical architecture that powers the Strategic Applications team's client solutions.
This is not a purely internal infrastructure or IT architecture role. The Architect works at the intersection of legal process, technology, and commercial delivery. Solutions designed by this role will be deployed directly on client matters, will be chargeable, and will be evaluated by clients and partners on their quality, reliability, and fitness for purpose. The role carries significant responsibility and demands both technical rigour and genuine commercial and legal judgement.
A defining expectation of this role is that solution design begins with the client's need, not the firm's technology stack. The ideal candidate will be able to interrogate what a client is actually trying to achieve — legally and commercially — and work backwards to a solution architecture that is proportionate, robust, and deliverable within the constraints of a live legal matter.
The Architect will work closely with the Strategic Applications Senior Analyst, with the two roles forming the core of the team's delivery capability. The Architect sets the technical design and integration framework; the Analyst executes within it. Effective collaboration between the two roles is essential and both will be expected to maintain a shared, end-to-end understanding of every workflow they work on together.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing and delivering integrations and agent-driven solutions using APIs and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) across cloud systems, within a law firm or legal service delivery environment.
Design and build API integrations between core legal technology platforms and connected systems, including DMS, HR, finance, and knowledge management systems.
Integrate core legal technology platforms including:
Design integration solutions involving Generative AI-enabled legal assistants and LLM-based platforms, integrating tools such as legal-specific GenAI solutions (e.g. Harvey, Legora, Emma Legal) and foundation models including Claude (Anthropic), with consideration of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecture, and LLM orchestration frameworks where relevant.
Ensure all integration architectures meet the firm's information security, data classification, access control, and information governance requirements.
The following measures will be used to evaluate performance in this role:
Note: Applications close at midday (12:00pm BST) on Friday 29 May 2026
Team
Digital Legal Delivery
Working Pattern
Full time
Location
London
Contract type
Permanent Contract
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.