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This includes Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI inside line of business products and an AI assistant the firm built itself.\nTrace how firm and client data reaches each AI tool, using existing records and conversations with the people who own them.\nReview what feeds the central data platform, and what does not.\nWork with the Head of Data and the information security and data protection teams, building on the governance they already have.\nProduce the AI and data capability map, and contribute findings to the risk report and the costed options.\nCheck every finding with the owner named on it before it goes into the report.\nRequirements\nYou have designed or reviewed a central data platform or data warehouse in a regulated organisation.\nYou have mapped AI features across a Microsoft 365 estate, including Copilot, and you understand how Azure OpenAI is used to build internal tools.\nYou understand client confidentiality and why it matters in a law firm or other professional services firm.\nExperience in legal or professional services is a strong plus.\nYou work as a peer alongside a Head of Data and senior technology leaders, without competing with them.\nYou write clear findings that non technical leaders can act on.\nIndependent of software vendors. 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