Emerging Technology Delivery Lead - herbertsmithfreehills

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals.

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Your goals. Our ambition The Opportunity Role Summary

Emerging Technology Delivery Lead is a senior hands-on technology leadership role responsible for designing, operationalising and scaling enterprise-grade AI, data and intelligent platform capabilities across the firm.

The role bridges execution, translating emerging technology vision, architecture blueprints and innovation initiatives into secure, scalable and supportable enterprise solutions.

Reporting into and working closely with the Principal Strategist Emerging Technologies, the role is accountable for shaping and delivering intelligent platform architectures that enable AI-assisted workflows, advanced analytics, semantic capabilities, automation and knowledge-driven services.

The role combines deep technical expertise with strong delivery leadership and engineering collaboration to ensure innovative solutions move successfully from experimentation into enterprise adoption.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participate to day scrum, manage ADO board with Scrum Master
• Design and build scalable enterprise AI and intelligent platform architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and governance standards
• Define reference architectures, patterns and integration models supporting the System of Intelligence (SOI)
• RAG and GraphRAG solutions
• Knowledge graphs and semantic platforms
• AI orchestration and agentic workflows
• AI integration layers and APIs
• Vector databases and retrieval platforms
• AI-assisted workflow automation
• Ensure AI platforms integrate effectively with enterprise systems, identity models, security controls and data platforms