NTT DATA  Services

Sr Corporate Counsel (REMOTE US)

NTT DATA Services$150K — $180K *
Plano, TX 75025In-Person
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years legal experience, emphasizing law firm background.
  • 3+ years negotiating complex IT services agreements.
  • Proficient in sourcing and reviewing outsourcing contracts.
  • Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
  • Adaptability to collaborate with various stakeholders in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate contracts for IT and consulting services.
  • Advise on terms, risks, and compliance in outsourcing agreements.
  • Resolve business disputes with customers effectively.
  • Ensure adherence to corporate legal policies.
  • Collaborate with internal teams and global partners.
  • Manage executive communications and escalation processes.
  • Support employment law matters as required.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility with opportunities to operate from hub offices in Plano, Chicago, or Boston.
  • Engagement with diverse business sectors including Healthcare and Financial Services.
  • Chance to develop skills in a fast-evolving tech landscape.
  • Opportunity to work closely with senior executives.
  • Involvement in high-stakes legal matters across multiple domains.
Full Job Description
Req ID: 376880

We are currently seeking a Sr Corporate Counsel (REMOTE US) to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Corporate Counsel (Senior Specialist Advisor)

NTT DATA America seeks a Corporate Counsel to join our Legal Department's commercial transactions team. This attorney will support the sales and delivery organizations of NTT DATA North America and work on transactions and other matters across our various business verticals, including Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services & Insurance, Products and Public. As Corporate Counsel, you will be expected to negotiate and document contracts for complex information technology (IT), applications, business process, digital, consulting and artificial intelligence (AI) services transactions. Additionally, you will support Canadian employment law and corporate governance matters as needed.

Responsibilities include:
  • Lead counsel in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts in support of IT, applications, business process, digital, consulting and AI services sales and delivery organizations
  • Advise business clients on terms and conditions, and risks, in complex outsourcing relationships (including scope of the services, service level agreements, pricing schedules, intellectual property, benchmarking, termination, and IP)
  • Assist in developing and achieving resolutions to business disputes with customers
  • Enforce compliance with corporate policies
  • Work collaboratively with internal corporate units and global stakeholders
  • Manage internal executive briefings and escalations
  • Provide legal support for employment law issues as needed


Required Qualifications:
  • At least 5 years of experience as a lawyer, preferably with some law firm experience, and at least 3 years of experience drafting and negotiating complex IT services agreements, including leading or "second chairing" the negotiation of IT, applications and/or business process outsourcing agreements
  • Ability to exercise independent judgment and interact with senior business executives
  • Knowledge of the market for complex IT services
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills (English)
  • Flexibility and willingness to work with multiple stakeholders in an evolving business


Location:

This role may be performed remotely and/or from one of our hub offices (Plano, Chicago, Boston.)

About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, a predecessor of NTT, started Data Communications business in 1967. NTT, following its privatization in 1985, spun off the Data Communications division as NTT DATA in 1988, which has now become the largest of the IT Services companies headquartered in Japan.
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