Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel

Full-Time 59400 - 72600 £ / year (est.) Working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Provide legal advice on tech, contracts, and governance while supporting business growth.
  • Company: Purpose-driven digital transformation provider focused on innovation and social value.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, car allowance, bonus, flexible working, and generous leave options.
  • Other info: Flexible working arrangements to promote work/life balance and career growth.
  • Why this job: Join a collaborative team making a real impact in technology and society.
  • Qualifications: Qualified lawyer with experience in technology law and excellent stakeholder management skills.

The predicted salary is between 59400 - 72600 £ per year.

Looking to join a collaborative and supportive team? The role of Senior Legal Counsel provides pragmatic, commercial and risk-based legal advice to support the company’s technology, digital transformation, outsourcing and managed services business. The role requires partnership with the business to enable growth while managing legal, regulatory and reputational risk. This is a hybrid role with occasional office presence required in our London office.

What you will be doing:

  • Commercial Contracting - Draft, review and negotiate customer, supplier and partner agreements, supporting complex technology transactions.
  • Technology and Regulatory Advice - Advising on technology law matters including safe adoption of AI tools, Intellectual property, Data protection and privacy and Cyber security.
  • Procurement and Public Sector Support - Advising on public procurement law and procurement processes and supporting bids.
  • Company Secretarial / Corporate Governance - Experience with company boards, minute taking, filings with Companies House, Corporate Governance (large private entity) and M&A.
  • Legal Department Operations - Self-service for business and Document standardisation.
  • Stakeholder Engagement - Build strong relationships with business leaders across sales, procurement, delivery, finance, HR, security and operations and participate in commercial and operational decision making.
  • Governance and Risk Management - Identifying and managing legal and regulatory risks and supporting corporate governance initiatives.

What you’ll bring:

  • Qualified to practise law in the UK or in another common law jurisdiction.
  • Registered Lawyer with at least four years’ experience.
  • Experience of technology and/or digital transformation is essential.
  • General commercial legal counsel experience.
  • Previous experience of legal practice involving public sector contracts is desirable.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, including internal clients, opposition stakeholders and external supporting law firms.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Hybrid, occasional London visits

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Adrian

Salary: Competitive depending on experience

Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, bonus, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us? We are a purpose driven digital transformation provider, creating innovative digital solutions to help clients drive their digital transformation projects and secure tangible and sustainable benefits. We harness the power of innovation to drive positive change in both business and society, delivering sustainable growth and services which make life better, from effective frontline citizen services, to digitising financial services, utilities, and delivering smarter roads. We place people at the heart of everything we do and are committed to working with our customers, partners and suppliers to shape a better world and add real and lasting social value to the communities in which we work. Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value. We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us!

Senior Legal Counsel employer: Sopra Steria

Join a forward-thinking team at the forefront of Aerospace and Defence, where your expertise in Microsoft Sentinel and KQL will directly contribute to enhancing security measures. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative work culture that prioritises employee growth through continuous learning opportunities and innovative projects. Located in a dynamic environment, we offer competitive benefits and a commitment to making a meaningful impact in the industry.

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Contact Details:

Sopra Steria Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Senior Legal Counsel

Commercial Contracting
Technology Law
Regulatory Compliance
Data Protection and Privacy
Cyber Security
Public Procurement Law
Corporate Governance