Job Title
Solutions Architect - Legal Systems
Job Description Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a Solution Architect to join our growing Legal Technology team. This role focuses on the technical design and architecture of the Legal Technology stack, ensuring solutions are designed, configured, and deployed in line with business requirements and enterprise standards.
The Solution Architect will report into the Legal and Procurement Systems organization, part of the wider Enterprise Technology function. Alongside vendors, this role manages configuration, architectural oversight, and technical authority across multiple legal systems, including ownership of system integrations, and dependencies.
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Key Responsibilities
System Support and Configuration
- Act as the technical solution architect for legal technology systems, owning a deep understanding of system architecture, integrations, and cross-system dependencies.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and configurations that align to agreed architecture standards.
- Lead technical design reviews and deep-dive assessments in support of implementation and deployment activity.
- Collaborate with vendors on solution design, configuration, releases, and new functionality, providing technical oversight and assurance.
- Design and configure complex rules, workflows, and calculated fields as part of approved solution designs.
- Work with other solution architects across technologies to assess and manage system impacts and interdependencies.
- Perform technical smoke testing prior to release to validate solution design and build quality.
- Support UAT by defining technical test cases and validating changes against approved designs.
- Maintain architecture and design documentation to reflect current system configurations and integrations.
- Identify and propose architectural and technology improvement opportunities within the Legal Technology stack.
Skills & Competencies
- Essential: 3+ years of Workday configuration experience in any functional area (Finance/Procurement experience highly desirable).
- Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms (e.g. Workday, Salesforce, CLM or similar) with an understanding of broader system architecture.
- Familiarity with any legal technology solution is a plus (e.g., contract lifecycle management, matter management, incident management).
- Strong Excel skills with the ability to apply data-driven approaches to technical configuration.
- Working knowledge of Power BI or similar reporting/data tools.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess technical impacts across multiple systems.
- Results-oriented, able to operate independently while collaborating effectively with delivery teams and vendors.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with both technical teams and business users.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a project-driven delivery environment.
- Prior experience supporting legal teams in a technical capacity is beneficial but not required.
Qualifications / Experience / Education
- 3+ years of Workday configuration experience (essential).
INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”