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About the Role
This role is for the Engine Legal Team and will report into the Senior Legal Counsel, Engine. The Engine Legal Team covers all legal aspects needed for a high growth company within a successful bank to succeed. You will have significant exposure to senior stakeholders across Engine. This role will have a strong focus on commercial contracts and related matters.
Responsibilities
- Drafting, negotiating and advising on client facing commercial contracts (e.g. NDAs, framework agreements, SaaS agreements, other software licences).
- Drafting, negotiating and advising on a full range of third party supplier and intragroup commercial agreements (e.g. marketing, IT, technology, outsourcing) to support the development of Engine.
- Helping to advise on data protection matters in terms of supplier arrangements, client agreements and intragroup data sharing.
- Advising on any issues and matters that may arise to successfully run a banking SaaS company.
- Supporting Senior Legal Counsel (and General Counsel) on international expansion aspects of Engine.
- Managing multiple projects (often to tight deadlines) and supporting colleagues to ensure business and enterprise-wide initiatives are executed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Updating and maintaining Engine’s legal precedent documents.
- Instructing and working with external counsel where necessary on specialist and international matters.
Requirements
- UK qualified lawyer with around 3-5 years PQE (note PQE is a guide only).
- Banking SaaS and/or financial services regulatory (e.g. material outsourcing rules) experience.
- Commercial contracts experience.
- Strong real life experience in drafting, advising and negotiating a range of different commercial contracts in a technology and financial services context (ideally both on a sell and buy side).
- Good real life experience in advising on data protection issues.
- Excellent technical knowledge.
- Solid understanding of contract law and principles.
- Commercially focused.
- Capable of working in a fast-paced environment.
- Keen to grow and develop within the organisation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong influencing skills.
Skills
- Commercial contracts
- Data protection
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Influencing
Location
- London
- Manchester
- Cardiff
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years PQE
Education Level
- UK qualified lawyer
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including public holidays)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service
- Option to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice
- Company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary
- Group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care
- Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Incentives refer a friend scheme
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work
- Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships
- Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
About the Company
- At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.
- Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
- Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up.
- This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.
- We draw upon our experience as knowledgeable bankers, and best in class technologists to become the chosen option for these banks, and preferred partners for leading consultancies.
Equal Opportunity
- Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace.
- Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.