Legal Counsel, Data Privacy & Technology

Centrica - CHP; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy firm is seeking a Legal Counsel specializing in Privacy and Technology to join their dynamic legal team. This role entails managing privacy and technology risks and providing essential legal support to commercial sectors. Ideal candidates should have strong expertise in privacy law, risk management, and technology law. This position offers the chance to significantly contribute to shaping legal practices within a forward-thinking organization.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of privacy and technology regulations.
• Proven experience managing legal risks in commercial technology settings.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage privacy and technology risks on a day-to-day basis.
• Deliver privacy services to commercial and technology-led parts of the business.
• Support legal work related to customer-facing businesses.

Skills

Privacy law expertise

Risk management

Technology law understanding

Education

Law degree

Job description

Description

Join us, be part of more.

We're so much more than an energy company. We're a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn't rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That's why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Legal Counsel, Privacy and Technology to join our Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Ethics & Compliance, and Secretariat Function (LRECS). In this role, you will be an integral part of a high‑performing privacy and technology team, reporting directly to our Group Data Protection Officer (DPO). You will play a crucial role in delivering for the Centrica Group and the wider legal function's objectives from a privacy, technology and cyber perspective.

Key requirements will be managing the privacy and associated technology risks to our business on a day‑to‑day basis and the ability to deliver privacy services to the commercial and technology‑led parts of the business. You will support a wide variety of legal work including supporting the customer‑facing businesses o…