Legal Counsel - Data Privacy
London
As a Barclays Legal Counsel - Data Privacy, your role is to is to provide assistance and expert legal advice on data privacy and related matters with respect to international data protection projects with the focus of enhancing customer experience through innovation and data initiatives, all aspects of Barclays’ current and proposed Cyber, Intelligence, and Insider Threat programmes, outsourcing and procurement transactions and corporate acquisitions and disposals.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Identifying and addressing legal data privacy issues arising, including negotiating data privacy and data transfer issues in respect of contracts
• Providing appropriate management of data privacy legal risk arising from data mining and commercialisation, new regulations, the development & launch of new products
• Identifying & addressing data privacy issues from third-party engagements, negotiating & resolving issues with commercial contracts, data transfers & customer terms
• Analysing data privacy legal risks and provide a timely, commercial and pragmatic advice to the business or support area concerned on these issues
• Working closely with stakeholders, in particular the Technology, Cyber Security and Information functions to participate in the development of new business products
• Developing and delivering strategic data privacy risk management initiatives to assist assessing and managing its legal risks e.g. horizon scanning, business training
• Participating in the development of controls, processes, policies and procedures designed to reduce data privacy legal risk and/or increase the efficiency of the team
• Establishing credibility at the most senior levels in the organisation first class influencing & negotiating skills and ability to plan how best to win support and gain co-operation
What we’re looking for:
• Qualified lawyer
• Excellent technical knowledge of data privacy law, including the GDPR and EU/International experience, social media and data commercialisation legal issues, cyber and insider threat
• Solid technical knowledge of contract, commercial, IT and/or outsourcing law
• Excellent communication skills - verbal and written (technical and non-technical)
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Good knowledge of international freedom of information/open government law desirable
• Familiarity with the businesses and products across the banking/financial services industry and relevant legal issues affecting them
• Business awareness and commercial focus
• Delivery of imaginative solutions at pace under pressure and in a change driven environment
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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