Director, Technology Partner Architecture Solutions – Legal

Thomson Reuters•Eagan, MN

About The Position

The Director, Partner Solutions Architect (PSA) for Legal leads the technical design and quality of solutions that combine Thomson Reuters legal content and technology with strategic partners’ platforms. The role establishes architecture standards and ensures partner offerings are appropriately scoped, secure, and ready to sell before commitments are made to customers. It works across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Legal theater leaders to turn partnership opportunities into adoptable customer solutions. The Director leads a team of solutions architects, guides technical due diligence on partners, and serves as a trusted technical contact in discussions with partner executives. The position requires deep technical judgment, customer empathy, and accountability for partner commitments and customer outcomes. The role defines reference architectures and integration patterns, assesses partner platforms and AI capabilities, leads customer discovery and solution workshops, and supports proofs of concept and complex sales. It aligns product roadmaps and engineering delivery with partner commitments, establishes success criteria and health metrics, addresses escalations, and recommends whether offerings should be scaled, fixed, or retired. It also sets team goals, develops team members, and builds reusable architecture standards and shared knowledge across the Legal theater.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in solutions architecture, software engineering, or technical consulting, including at least five years leading architecture for enterprise software or platform partnerships.
Hands-on experience designing integrations with partner APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise data systems.
Experience designing AI- or machine-learning-enabled solutions, including retrieval, model integration, and evaluation approaches.
Track record of translating technical designs into commercial offerings with Product, Sales, and Partnerships teams.
Experience leading and developing a team of technical professionals, including setting goals, managing performance, and coaching.
Strong knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance requirements for handling confidential client and legal information.

Nice To Haves

Experience in legal technology, legal publishing, or professional services software.
Presales experience.
Familiarity with legal workflows such as legal research, contract review, litigation support, or legal operations.
Experience with cloud and AI ecosystem partner programs, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Anthropic.
A law degree or equivalent legal industry experience, or an advanced degree in computer science or engineering.

Responsibilities

Define reference architectures for partner-delivered legal solutions, including integration patterns, data flows, and security and privacy controls.
Translate partner capabilities and legal-practice customer workflows into scoped, buildable solution designs.
Review and approve technical designs for partner offerings before commitments are made to customers or Sales.
Assess partner platforms, APIs, and AI models for technical fit, scalability, reliability, and compliance with legal industry requirements.
Evaluate partner security, data residency, and model governance practices, and document risks requiring mitigation.
Advise Partnerships on which technical capabilities merit investment and which should be limited in scope.
Lead technical discovery and solution workshops with prospective law firm and corporate legal department customers.
Design proofs of concept and pilots to demonstrate partner-integrated offerings with early customers.
Support Sales with technical positioning, objection handling, and solution proposals in complex deals.
Work with Product to shape the partner roadmap, prioritize integration work, and resolve gaps between partner commitments and product capacity.
Partner with Engineering on integration delivery, release readiness, and technical support models for partner solutions.
Bring customer and partner feedback into product planning to improve solutions with each deployment.
Establish technical success criteria and health metrics for each partner solution, and monitor them after launch.
Lead technical reviews and escalation responses when partner-delivered solutions fall short of commitments.
Recommend whether partner solutions should be scaled, fixed, or retired based on technical performance and customer outcomes.
Set goals and direction for the solutions architecture team, and manage team members’ performance and development.
Build architecture standards, reusable reference assets, and a shared knowledge base across the Legal theater.
Coach and mentor solutions architects and develop the team’s technical depth in AI, integration, and legal-domain workflows.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
Flexible vacation and paid time off, including sick and safe time and paid holidays.
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off annually.
Access to the Headspace app and Employee Assistance Program.
Retirement savings plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs and an annual bonus opportunity based on enterprise and individual performance.
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
Parental leave and sabbatical leave.
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance, paid 100% by the employee.
Optional life and AD&D insurance, paid 100% by the employee.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Fitness reimbursement.
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit, paid 100% by the employee.
Access to a 529 Plan and commuter benefits.
Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to participate in pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Career development and continuous learning programs, including Grow My Way.
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.