AI Solution Architect
Ecolab · St Paul, MN · Yesterday
Engineering$154k–$231k/yrFull-time
Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Arcitect end-to-end AI enabled legal solutions spanning intake, contract lifecycle management, compliance workflows, legal operations, document intelligence, and post signature insights.
- Translate business challenges into scalable technical architectures, including application design, workflow orchestration, integration patterns, data flows, security controls, AI services, and deployment models.
- Define solution blueprints, reference architectures, reusable design patterns, and technical standards for Legal AI initiatives.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical decision making across legal technology platforms, enterprise systems, and AI capabilities.
- Drive technology strategy and roadmap recommendations for legal workflow automation and AI enabled legal operations.
AI Solution Design & Delivery
- Design and deliver production ready AI agents, copilots, orchestration services, APIs, and automation solutions that solve legal business challenges.
- Develop AI enabled capabilities supporting contract analysis, clause extraction, obligation tracking, document summarization, compliance validation, legal intake, risk identification, and workflow acceleration.
- Design and implement agentic and multi-agent architectures that integrate intelligence services into governed legal workflows.
- Evaluate evaluation frameworks, monitoring patterns, observability standards, and performance metrics to ensure reliable AI solution operation.
- Lead architecture decisions regarding model selection, orchestration approaches, retrieval strategies, and enterprise AI integration patterns.
Enterprise Integration & Platform Architecture
- Design secure, scalable integrations between AI capabilities, CLM platforms, workflow tools, enterprise applications, and systems of record.
- Define integration patterns that maintain proper separation between: AI reasoning and intelligence layers, workflow orchestration platforms, business applications, data services, and systems of record.
- Ensure legal systems retain authoritative ownership of records, approvals, contracts, and compliance workflows while AI capabilities augment decision making and productivity.
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and security teams to establish scalable solution patterns.
Buy vs. Build & Vendor Evaluation
- Lead buy versus build assessments for Legal AI capabilities and workflow solutions.
- Evaluate vendors, platforms, and emerging technologies against business requirements, integration complexity, risk, security, scalability, and total cost of ownership considerations.
- Provide technical due diligence, architecture recommendations, implementation estimates, and adoption strategies for legal technology investments.
- Partner with vendors and implementation teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards.
Governance, Security & Responsible AI
- Establish architecture standards supporting Responsible AI, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, auditability, and enterprise governance requirements.
- Design controls and guardrails that ensure AI solutions operate safely within regulated legal and compliance processes.
- Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, and Legal stakeholders to incorporate governance requirements into solution designs.
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for data protection, access control, monitoring, resiliency, and operational support.
Technical Leadership & Team Enablement
- Provide architecture leadership, technical mentorship, and implementation guidance to engineers, data scientists, and solution teams.
- Lead technical design reviews and establish engineering best practices for AI development and deployment.
- Drive adoption of reusable components, reference implementations, and enterprise solution standards.
- Influence cross-functional teams through technical expertise, strategic thinking, and collaborative leadership.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for Legal AI architecture and solution design.