Technical Lead

Outside IR35 Contract - Intapp Technical Lead (Client-Side – Intapp Integration & Assurance)

Business Intake Transformation Programme

Leading International Law Firm | | June 2026 – Dec 2027 | 3 days per week | Remote

About the Programme

A leading international law firm is delivering a major transformation of its Business Intake (BIT) capability, including migration from an on-premises Intapp environment to Intapp Cloud.

The programme includes:

• Full Intapp Cloud migration
• Redesign of Business Intake operating model
• Rebuild of ~120 system integrations across the application landscape
• Migration of ~117,000 client and ~627,000 matter records
• Firm-wide rollout to ~800 users across legal and business services teams

Delivery is being led by an external Implementation Partner, supported by internal IT, data and business stakeholders.

Role Purpose

We are seeking a client-side Technical Lead (Intapp-focused) to act as the firm’s independent technical challenger and assurance lead throughout the programme.

This is not a solution design or architecture ownership role.

The Implementation Partner will design and build the solution. This role exists to ensure:

• Technical designs are robust and appropriate
• Integration solutions will work in a real-world law firm environment
• Configuration decisions are controlled and do not introduce downstream risk
• Technical risks are identified early and challenged before build progresses

The role acts as the firm’s primary technical assurance and challenge point across integrations, configuration and delivery quality.

Key Responsibilities

Integration & Technical Validation

• Review and challenge all integration designs produced by the Implementation Partner
• Maintain and validate an end-to-end integration inventory (current and future state)
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies and under-scoped integrations
• Challenge integration design decisions where risk, scalability or operability is in question
• Ensure integration approaches are practical, supportable and aligned to legal sector environments

Configuration Oversight

• Review configuration decisions within Intapp Cloud
• Ensure configuration choices align to agreed standards and do not introduce operational risk
• Challenge configuration decisions where over-engineered or misaligned
• Act as approval checkpoint for key configuration decisions

Delivery Assurance (Build & Test)

• Review build outputs against agreed design and acceptance criteria
• Validate integration builds during unit and end-to-end testing
• Support technical defect triage and resolution
• Provide written technical assessments during key delivery milestones

Migration & Cutover Assurance

• Review migration approach and rehearsal outputs (validation role, not design ownership)
• Provide technical assurance during migration rehearsals
• Support go-live readiness reviews and risk identification
• Provide input into cutover sequencing and rollback considerations

Governance & Technical Challenge

• Chair weekly Technical Working Group (SI, IT, Data, Test)
• Provide structured technical challenge in governance forums
• Present technical risks and recommendations to Programme Steering Group
• Support stage gate decision-making through technical assurance input

Key Deliverables

• Integration inventory (validated and maintained)
• Integration and configuration review outputs
• Weekly technical assurance reports during build phase
• Migration rehearsal assessments
• Go-live technical readiness input
• As-built technical documentation (supported with IT team)

Essential Experience

Intapp Experience (Critical)

• Hands-on experience with Intapp Open and/or Intapp Cloud
• Strong understanding of Intapp Business Intake workflows
• Experience using Intapp in a professional services or law firm environment

Integration & Technical Delivery

• Experience reviewing or working with complex system integrations
• Familiarity with integration platforms (e.g. Boomi, IIS or equivalent middleware)
• Ability to assess integration design quality and identify delivery risk
• Experience in complex enterprise application environments

Law Firm / Professional Services Environment

• Experience working in UK or international law firms OR equivalent professional services environments
• Understanding of business intake processes (conflicts, matter opening, AML/KYC workflows)
• Awareness of regulatory and operational constraints in legal environments

Assurance & Challenge Experience

• Experience acting as a client-side technical reviewer or challenger of implementation partners
• Comfortable reviewing and challenging SI design and delivery decisions
• Experience reviewing technical documentation and delivery outputs

Communication

• Strong written communication skills
• Ability to translate technical risk into clear governance messaging
• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders in a structured forum

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Intapp Cloud migration programmes
• Experience integrating Intapp with:
• Elite 3E
• iManage
• Exposure to legal sector transformation programmes
• Experience working with Big 4 / SI delivery teams
• Understanding of AML / SRA compliance impacts on workflow design
• TOGAF / ITIL or equivalent frameworks

What Success Looks Like

A successful candidate will:

• Identify integration risks early and prevent downstream delivery issues
• Provide credible technical challenge to the Implementation Partner
• Strengthen design quality through structured review and feedback
• Reduce surprises during testing and go-live phases
• Help ensure a stable, supportable Intapp Cloud solution at launch

Personal Attributes

• Confident challenging senior technical teams and external partners
• Pragmatic, with a focus on production reality rather than theoretical design
• Strong judgement in complex, ambiguous delivery environments
• Calm under pressure during test and go-live phases
• Comfortable operating in governance-heavy programmes

Commitment

• 3 days per week (increasing during build, test and go-live phases)
• Some flexibility required during critical delivery windows and production go-live period

How to Apply

Please submit:

• CV
• Short supporting statement addressing:

1. Experience acting as a client-side technical challenger to an implementation partner
2. Experience with Intapp and/or similar legal technology platforms
3. Example of identifying or mitigating technical risk in a complex integration programme