About the Role
At a leading global law firm, technology and innovation are deeply integrated into client solutions. The firm's commitment to advancing its innovation strategy includes significant investment in technology and partnerships with key players in the industry. You will tackle exciting challenges at the intersection of law, technology, and business.
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Key Responsibilities
Solution Design & Implementation
- Implement and support the development of Python-based services and applications.
- Maintain and improve existing AI/ML solutions to enhance performance and scalability.
- Support troubleshooting and resolve system issues as the designated technical specialist.
- Set up systems to implement solutions for ad-hoc data analysis and document processing exercises.
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, business stakeholders, IT security, and architecture teams to gather and align requirements.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Identify opportunities to enhance the firm’s technology stack and contribute to its evolution.
- Introduce and promote best practices in AI/ML solution design, DevOps, and development.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI, ML, and software engineering.
Skills and Experience
- Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs across one or more enterprise providers, such as Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI or Anthropic, including structured outputs, tool use, streaming, retries, rate limits, model versioning and cost controls.
- Understanding of traditional ML models and algorithms.
- Hands-on track record working with Python in a professional environment.
- Development & DevOps: Hands-on experience with git/git-flow, containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines (ideally Azure DevOps).
- Strong English communication skills to engage with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience with retrieval-enabled and agentic document workflows, including repository navigation, hybrid search and RAG, metadata, OCR, chunking, source citation, tool use, structured outputs and document generation.
- Experience building production services with Python and Django or comparable web frameworks, including APIs, streaming interfaces and asynchronous or background job processing.
- Experience working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, and query performance.
- Prior experience working in legal tech or professional services firms.
- Knowledge of Azure Cloud, including AKS, Service Bus, Azure OpenAI and Form Recognizer.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform).
- Experience in agile, fast paced environments.
- Understanding of the security and compliance requirements of a professional services firm.
UK Inclusion
This firm is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered based on their merit alone. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK, as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
This firm is a Ban the Box employer. Applicants are asked to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer; decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, considering factors such as the role applied for and the circumstances of the offence. You would have the opportunity to discuss the matter prior to a decision being made.
