Senior ICT & Digital Platforms Lawyer (12-mo Temp)

Service NSW; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 133,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Job summary

The Department of Customer Service in Sydney CBD seeks a Senior Lawyer to join the Digital & Platforms team. This 12‑month temporary role involves advising on technology contracts, digital identities, AI, cybersecurity, and cloud services for NSW government projects.

You will report to a Managing Lawyer and work in a hybrid arrangement based in Sydney. A Bachelor of Laws and at least 4 years PQE across digital/tech, IP or privacy are required.

Qualifications

• Provide strategic, pragmatic, focused and accountable specialist legal advice across technology and digital areas.
• Support complex commercial negotiations to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements and successful delivery of outcomes for major projects.
• Draft, review, and assist in negotiations of a range of documents and agreements including for software and product acquisition/licensing, product development, intellectual property in information technology, digital transformation, and cloud service delivery.
• Be adept at working with a variety of stakeholders to interpret and distil complex legal issues in the preparation of contractual and other documentation to ensure that statutory, ethical, probity and other legal obligations are properly addressed

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, pragmatic, focused and accountable specialist legal advice across technology and digital areas.
• Support complex commercial negotiations to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements and successful delivery of outcomes for major projects.
• Advise, draft, review, and assist in negotiations of a range of documents and agreements including for software and product acquisition/licensing, product development, intellectual property in information technology, digital transformation, and cloud service delivery.
• Be adept at working with a variety of stakeholders to interpret and distil complex legal issues in the preparation of contractual and other documentation to ensure that statutory, ethical, probity and other legal obligations are properly addressed

Skills

Analytical ability

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Deadline management

Education

Bachelor of Laws or equivalent

Job description

The Department of Customer Service in Sydney CBD seeks a Senior Lawyer to join the Digital & Platforms team. This 12‑month temporary role involves advising on technology contracts, digital identities, AI, cybersecurity, and cloud services for NSW government projects.

You will report to a Managing Lawyer and work in a hybrid arrangement based in Sydney. A Bachelor of Laws and at least 4 years PQE across digital/tech, IP or privacy are required.