Legal Technologist - VP

Barclays•Whippany, NJ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Purpose of the role To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by ensuring the business is ready to receive the agreed change (address business problems and opportunities), ensuring that change initiatives are successfully assessed and implemented to enable them to be embedded in the organisation. Join us as a Legal Technologist - VP. In this role, you will lead the adoption of legal technology and GenAI solutions to modernize legal operations. You will partner with legal, technology, and business teams to translate complex workflows into scalable, data-driven solutions. This position is critical to improving efficiency, enhancing user experience, and supporting enterprise-wide transformation in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation.
Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives.
Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met.
Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU (including Target Operating Model, Training, Communications, Service Agreements.)
Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed.
Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies.
Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans.
Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully.
Lead implementation of legal technology platforms such as workflow automation and document management
Partner with legal, technology, and business stakeholders to define requirements
Identify and deploy automation and GenAI solutions to reduce manual work and improve efficiency
Develop standardized workflows, playbooks, and best practices for legal processes
Drive change management, training, and user adoption initiatives
Analyze usage metrics and data to measure value and support continuous improvement
Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, ensuring timely and compliant delivery
Apply legal operations and legal technology expertise within regulated environments

Benefits

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

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