Data Architect

Global Law Firm seeks an experienced Solution & Data Architect to join its Strategy & Architecture team, playing a key role in shaping enterprise technology across a complex global environment. Working closely with Technology, Risk, Innovation and business stakeholders, you'll design scalable, secure and data-driven solutions while taking ownership of the target-state integration architecture across the firm's core legal application estate.

• Own the target-state integration architecture across iManage Cloud, Elite 3E Cloud, Intapp Cloud and associated Microsoft 365 / Azure services.
• Design end-to-end solution, data and integration architectures aligned with business and technology strategy.
• Define integration patterns, interfaces, APIs and data flows across business-critical legal platforms.
• Architect solutions for the synchronisation of client, matter and associated master data across multiple systems.
• Establish appropriate approaches for error handling, reconciliation, monitoring and recovery across integrations.
• Deliver scalable Azure IaaS, PaaS and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Develop enterprise architecture standards, frameworks and technology roadmaps.
• Define data architecture, governance, information lifecycle and data management standards.
• Ensure security, compliance, resilience and operational requirements are embedded within solution designs.
• Evaluate AI and emerging technology solutions in line with enterprise architecture, security and data governance standards.
• Produce architecture documentation, high-level designs and executive-level presentations.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to internal technology teams and third-party vendors.

• Proven experience across multiple architecture domains including Infrastructure, Data and Security Architecture.
• Ability to operate at both strategic architecture and detailed solution design level.
• Strong understanding of architecture principles and how technology architecture supports business outcomes.
• Hands-on experience architecting and delivering integrations across iManage Cloud, Elite 3E Cloud and Intapp Cloud.
• Ability to discuss in detail integrations you have personally designed, governed or delivered, including interfaces, APIs, data synchronisation, failure handling and reconciliation.
• Strong understanding of legal-sector data domains including client and matter records, workspace and document metadata, conflicts and intake, time capture, billing and WIP.
• Understanding of how these data domains interact and flow between Document Management, Practice Management, Finance and Risk systems.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience including IaaS, PaaS, integration services and hybrid/cloud-native architecture.
• Experience of data architecture, data governance and information lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, APIs, security architecture and enterprise solution design.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience producing architecture roadmaps, high-level designs and technical documentation aligned with recognised security and continuity standards.

• Bonus
• Excellent Benefits

- This is an outstanding opportunity to influence the technology strategy of a global Law Firm, taking architectural ownership of the integration landscape connecting some of the legal sector's most important enterprise platforms. - You'll work across iManage, Elite 3E, Intapp, Microsoft 365 and Azure, combining hands-on integration architecture with wider responsibility across data, cloud, security and enterprise architecture.