Senior Legal Counsel

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Job description

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology and engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients' opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year+ heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. Today, it is a multicultural company of 270,000 team members in almost 50 countries. With Altran, the Group reported 2019 combined revenues of €17billion. Visit us at . People matter, results count.

About the Role

Title: Senior Legal Counsel Location: New York City NY, Chicago IL, Atlanta GA or Dallas TX Position: Full time
• Capgemini's Financial Services business unit has an immediate opening for an in-house attorney.
• Candidates should have 3-7 years of intellectual property and information technology-related legal experience in a leading law firm or in-house legal department.
• The attorney will be involved in advising on various commercial matters, primarily involving consulting services and technology transactions with our Financial Services clients in the insurance, banking and capital markets industries.
• This position requires the ability to advise internal business teams on legal risks and manage deals independently.
• Candidates must have experience negotiating and drafting services agreements, non-disclosure agreements, outsourcing agreements, software licensing, alliance agreements, and various other documents related to IT services transactions.
• Candidates should have expertise with legal issues involving intellectual property, privacy, cybersecurity and technology.
• Candidates should possess excellent legal and interpersonal skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks (prioritizing as necessary), have a strong work ethic and excellent communication and organizational skills.
• The attorney would be expected to work directly with client teams and senior members of the Financial Services business unit to provide legal counseling.

What We Offer

Your career matters to you and is important to us too. Because your goals and needs are constantly evolving, we offer visibility, leeway and support to help you grow and progress in your career. This approach builds notably on our comprehensive competency framework, our personal development, training and career management programs, and our University innovative and business-focused learning curriculums.
We promote a culture of diversity. We believe working with talented individuals from different backgrounds and points of view is a strategic advantage and an ongoing opportunity. Diversity enriches our creative solutions and adds value for our clients.
With the digital tech sector growing at a rapid pace and women significantly underrepresented in the industry, we are determined to inspire and recruit more women into technology and build diverse teams that reflect the clients we serve.
Our Shared values have been at the heart of the group since our formation. They are honesty, boldness, trust, freedom, team spirit, modesty and fun. These values influence the way we meet client needs while respecting the regulatory requirements of each country in which we operate, and the way we promote ethically sound practices within Capgemini and in our partnerships.
Capgemini is committed to building a workforce of employees with diverse backgrounds and work experiences. We strongly encourage women, veterans and active military service personnel to apply.

Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.
This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.
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