Top Legal Jobs in Belfast

Owns complex EMEA employment-law matters across the full employment lifecycle, including works council negotiations, labor proceedings, compliance, agreements, investigations, and organizational changes. Advises senior stakeholders, manages outside counsel, monitors legal developments, and builds scalable legal processes, playbooks, and documentation for GitLab’s globally distributed workforce.

Leads the Contracts and Compliance legal team, providing strategic advice on commercial contracts, procurement, data protection, public law, leases, and data sharing. Manages complex negotiations, legal risk, external counsel, internal compliance, strategic initiatives, performance monitoring, and lawyer development. Supports organisational policy, regulatory priorities, continuous improvement, senior stakeholder engagement, and legal training while independently managing complex matters.

Supports UK and international legal entity technology governance, including regulatory reporting, Senior Manager Regime documentation, committee materials, management reports, and coordination across technology stakeholders. Produces accurate PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, manages information flows, supports regulatory and audit initiatives, and ensures timely completion of governance activities. The role requires strong communication, organization, analytical ability, attention to detail, and proficiency with Microsoft Office, Teams, and SharePoint.

Manage customer data migrations and onboarding from initial handoff through completion. Responsibilities include mapping, analyzing, transforming, and importing complex datasets; coordinating with customers, engineers, and internal stakeholders; maintaining accurate records; resolving issues; and improving the onboarding experience. The role requires extensive Excel and database work, customer communication, project coordination, and management of multiple migrations simultaneously.

Owns regulatory filings, compliance calendars, KYC and AML processes, legal contract administration, corporate housekeeping, governance records, and investor reporting across UTOPIA’s fund manager and venture studio entities. Coordinates with outsourced compliance professionals, external counsel, regulators, administrators, and internal stakeholders to ensure obligations, filings, registers, and documentation remain accurate, complete, and timely.

Creates, edits, researches, and quality assures UK legal education materials, assessments, and digital learning resources. The role monitors legal and assessment changes, collaborates with internal teams and external experts, supports accreditation and regulatory submissions, manages content systems, analyzes learner feedback, and contributes legal subject-matter expertise, product improvements, and author onboarding.

Leads enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and transformation across Finance, FinTech, Legal, and Risk. Oversees product platforms, Agile and DevOps adoption, AI and data initiatives, digital transformation, change management, vendor partnerships, governance, and technology operations. Partners with executive stakeholders to align global priorities, integrate platforms, manage dependencies, and deliver scalable, secure, value-driven outcomes across a federated enterprise technology organization.

Build and lead SINGU’s first in-house legal function, owning commercial contracts, enterprise negotiations, M&A, compliance, data protection, employment law, corporate governance, IP, and external counsel. Reporting to the Group CFO, this role supports a multi-country SaaS group across the UK, EU, Poland, and Germany. The successful candidate will establish legal processes, standardize contracts, manage legal risk, support acquisitions and integrations, and provide practical advice to executives, the Board, Sales, People & Culture, and other business teams.

Supports global legal and CEO function change initiatives, including AI implementation, regulatory remediation, audit resolution, and process improvement. Maintains project plans, PIDs, Gantt charts, RAID logs, and status reporting; coordinates workshops and sprint reviews; translates stakeholder needs into requirements and delivery plans; and supports execution across global teams.

Supports Citi’s commodities legal team by reviewing, drafting, and negotiating master agreements and related documentation for financial and physical commodities, emissions trading, and amendments. Engages institutional clients, counsel, business partners, Risk, and internal legal teams; advises on contractual risks and regulatory requirements; maintains negotiation records; and contributes to regulatory implementation, process improvements, and product initiatives.

Owns legal intake, matter tracking, contract workflows, commercial agreement support, approvals, records, reporting, external counsel administration, and broader paralegal operations. The role drafts and reviews lower-risk agreements, maintains templates and playbooks, coordinates stakeholders, supports governance and customer due diligence, and improves legal processes through automation and responsible AI use.

Lead Pencil’s legal operations for client and vendor contracting, including complex enterprise agreements, MSAs, terms, DPAs, and privacy policies. Advise product teams on AI capabilities, data privacy, intellectual property, and evolving regulations such as the EU AI Act and GDPR. Align vendor obligations with client commitments, manage legal risk, brief leadership, and develop thought leadership on Generative AI law in advertising.

Provide pragmatic commercial legal advice across the business; draft and negotiate commercial agreements (SaaS, software licensing, subcontracting, reseller); support data governance, regulatory compliance, healthcare-specific issues; assist with M&A, risk management, legal training, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid Leeds-based digital healthcare business.

Provides first-line customer support for Alt Legal and WebTMS through email, live chat, and phone. Resolves issues, trains customers, conducts data audits and imports in Google Sheets, supports key accounts, maintains CRM records, escalates product issues, develops training materials, presents webinars, and advocates for customer needs. The role also assists with team onboarding and training while supporting customer adoption, satisfaction, retention, and account health.

Manage and develop a team of senior and lead probate case managers, ensure high-quality legal advice and case progression, provide technical audit support, champion client service, and drive continuous improvement.

Administers and negotiates routine EMEAI commercial contracts using approved templates and playbooks. Supports contract lifecycle management, subsidiary governance, corporate maintenance, legal intake, compliance initiatives, legal technology implementation, workflow improvement, KPI tracking, and regional stakeholder communications. Escalates higher-risk matters to counsel and coordinates with internal teams, external counsel, finance, and corporate secretarial providers across multiple jurisdictions.

Leads the Governance and Legal Services function, overseeing governance, compliance, legal, regulatory, and risk frameworks. Advises trustees, senior leadership, and stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions; supports the Board and committees; manages legal counsel; and provides guidance on charity law, corporate governance, employment law, contracts, data protection, regulatory compliance, and organizational change.

Provides business-focused legal counsel for commercial SaaS activities, drafting and negotiating technology, cloud, licensing, customer, supplier, reseller, and partner agreements. Advises on contractual disputes, commercial risk, data privacy, GDPR, security requirements, and regulatory matters. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, manages external counsel, and monitors developments in technology and commercial law.

Manage relationships with a portfolio of defined contribution pension clients, supporting strategic accounts, client meetings, reporting quality, retention, growth, cross-selling, and compliant service delivery. The role partners with senior client directors, addresses operational issues, identifies new business opportunities, maintains CRM records, and applies knowledge of DC products, administration, regulation, and market trends to improve client outcomes.

Review and assess public sector, legal, and go-to-market documents, providing structured feedback focused on quality, accuracy, relevance, and adherence to guidelines. The role requires strong analytical, written communication, document review, and attention-to-detail skills. It is a fully remote independent contractor position with flexible scheduling and weekly payments, open to applicants in the United States, Europe, the UK, and Canada.

Reviews and evaluates legal, commercial, compliance, and contract documents for accuracy, completeness, clarity, risks, and adherence to standards. Provides structured, objective feedback and recommendations using professional judgment and established guidelines. Requires independent remote work, strong analytical and communication skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with commercial agreements, compliance materials, and document review.

Review and evaluate legal, grant, ESG, policy, and compliance documents for accuracy, quality, completeness, clarity, and relevance. Provide structured feedback, identify errors and compliance concerns, compare outputs against standards, and document recommendations. Work independently on flexible, fully remote evaluation projects using professional judgment and established guidelines.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.

Leads the identification, development, integration, and global deployment of AI and automation solutions for legal editorial, metadata, and content operations. The role supports AI strategy, evaluates designs against governance and quality standards, manages cross-functional projects, reports data-driven outcomes, tracks industry trends, documents improvements, and promotes responsible AI use.

Provide commercially focused legal advice to the Automotive business across Europe. Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements; advise on warranties, insurance, service contracts, distribution, product development, disputes, and regulatory changes; and support strategic projects. Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Risk, Sales, Product, Operations, and Supply Chain teams while managing external counsel and advising on legal risks across multiple European markets.