Legal Counsel - Digital & Technology | S3 | Legal

at  Santander

THE DIFFERENCE YOU’LL MAKE:

• Providing strategic advice to the relevant business teams to support with structuring and implementing innovation and technology projects (including the development of customer facing apps)
• Working closely with senior stakeholders in the Bank to deliver expert, accurate, concise, commercial and cost-effective legal advice that is readily understandable to non-lawyers
• Demonstrating creativity and innovation in reaching practical solutions on complex subject matters and be comfortable challenging when appropriate to ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements
• Sharing technical skills, experience and best practice with colleagues and the wider business and support other departments through training and the development of legal templates and checklists
• Keeping abreast of external developments in the law and financial services industry to enable Santander UK to react appropriately and in line with best practice, continuously seeking to improve processes, practices and policies
• Answering legal queries from internal customers as well as managing external suppliers/ stakeholders to successfully deliver advice, projects and other outcomes on a timely basis

WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW:

This role is based in Milton Keynes.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.
We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.
If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

• Experience providing legal advice that is readily understandable to non-lawyers
• Excellent knowledge and experience of outsourcing, digital, technology and commercial contract law and applicable regulatory regimes
• Excellent knowledge of the regulatory regime impacting outsourcing in financial services, for example the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) Supervisory Statement on Outsourcing and Third Party Risk Management (SS2/21)
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholder