Legal Counsel – IP, Emerging Technology and Cyber Legal

Join the Legal team to protect Barclays, its employees, and its brands while ensuring global competitiveness and compliance with legal standards. Your responsibilities will include risk mitigation, managing strategic transactions, and overseeing business contracts. As an Emerging Tech Legal Counsel AVP at Barclays, you will work in a team at the cutting edge of legal issues and their intersection with new technologies. You’ll provide advice on the adoption of AL and DLT Technologies by Barclays, it’s suppliers and Clients along with closely advising on laws, rules and regulations in this space. This role will also involve working closely with Barclays’ AI Risk, GenAI Centre of Excellence, Chief Controls Office, Chief Security Office and Compliance on design, implementation and testing of strategy, governance, risk and control processes as they relate to AI and other emerging technologies. Other role responsibilities include, supporting colleagues in Commercial Legal and M&A Legal teams with interpretation and negotiation of contracts and provide some training and upskilling to the wider legal function.