The Senior Legal Engineer is responsible for designing, building and configuring technology-enabled legal solutions that transform how legal work is delivered across the firm.
This role sits at the intersection of law, technology and practical implementation. It focuses on translating legal expertise into structured, scalable solutions, leveraging AI, automation, and data, to embed technology into core legal workflows. The role is central to the firm's Embedding AI programme, partnering with practice groups and business support functions to take high-value use cases from idea to working solution.
Team
Practice Innovation and Knowledge Solutions Team is comprised of Knowledge Lawyers, Knowledge Managers, Knowledge Advisors, Information Services professionals, and Knowledge Assistants.
Key responsibilities
Solution design and build
1. Designing and building configured legal solutions on the firm's AI and technology platforms; the core delivery focus of the role.
2. Design and develop legal solutions using the firm's AI and legal technology tools and capabilities.
3. Translate complex legal reasoning and processes into structured logic, rules and decision trees.
4. Design and implement AI-enabled legal workflows and integrate AI capabilities into core legal use cases such as drafting, review and analysis.
5. Build reusable components and scalable solutions that standardise legal work across practice areas, for both internal and client-facing use.
6. Ensure solutions are maintainable, extensible and adopted across the firm.
Delivery, adoption and impact
7. Taking solutions to the firm, driving sustained adoption and tracking the impact they have.
8. Take solutions from concept through configuration, deployment, embedding, iteration and ongoing improvement.
9. Lead end-to-end delivery of AI and legal technology pilots.
10. Rapidly prototype and iterate solutions.
11. Promote adoption of technology products and support a community of engagement, including technology and AI champions across the firm.
12. Define success metrics and track impact, including efficiency, quality and adoption.
Platforms, integration and vendors
13. Working across the firm's platforms, vendor relationships and integration points to underpin solution delivery.
14. Work with vendors to evaluate, implement, optimise and manage technology-enabled legal solutions.
15. Understand and leverage the integration capabilities of vendor platforms.
16. Collaborate with IT to define, scope and configure integrations across the firm's core platforms.
17. Support the operationalisation of the firm's taxonomy across systems and workflows.
Quality, governance and assurance
18. Applying legal judgement to assure accuracy, and keeping solutions safe and well-governed.
19. Apply, and support the application of, legal expertise to assess AI outputs, ensuring accuracy, commercial relevance and usability.
20. Collaborate with Risk & Compliance to ensure good AI governance, guardrails, and the upholding of and compliance with the firm's safe technology use policies.
21. Develop and document best practices for deploying AI and legal technology at scale, including prompt frameworks, guardrails and structured inputs.
Strategy and market awareness
22. Shaping the firm's technology direction and staying ahead of the market.
23. Contribute to the firm's digital product strategy and identify opportunities for improvement.
24. Keep abreast of legal technology market trends and emerging opportunities
Required experience
25. Strong legal domain expertise (qualified lawyer or equivalent experience)
26. Demonstrable experience configuring and implementing technology solutions, preferably to legal work problems
27. Ability to translate legal processes into structured logic and workflows
28. Experience working with structured data and familiarity with how systems integrate (deep technical capability not required)
29. Strong understanding of AI applications in legal workflows
30. Skills of stakeholder management, effective communication, listening, and a cross-functional team player
31. Good judgement in identification and prioritisation of value-add and strategically aligned tasks and projects
32. Experience with:
33. AI-enabled systems;
34. document automation platforms; and
35. workflow tools, no/low-code platforms.
36. Familiarity with structured data and query concepts
37. Understanding of system integration concepts
38. Experience with knowledge graphs, ontologies, or advanced taxonomy design, desirable
39. Experience embedding and driving enterprise systems in a law firm environment, desirable
40. Prior involvement in firm-wide AI platform roll-outs, desirable
41. Exposure to insurance or litigation workflows, desirable
Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
About Kennedys
Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.
Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.
We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.
What do we have to offer?
We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.
Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.
The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.
We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.
Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.
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