BP - Legal Engineer

Overview

Our client is a global energy company operating across oil, gas, and renewables, with a strong focus on digital transformation and innovation within its legal and compliance functions. The legal engineering and cyber teams are increasingly leveraging technology, automation, and data‑driven approaches to improve efficiency, manage risk, and support complex global operations.

Due to the launch and acceleration of multiple legal technology pilots, you will support the business as it embeds legal engineering capability across key use cases. The team has kicked off pilot programmes with sponsor groups and now sees increased demand for dedicated resource over the next six months to maintain momentum, structure delivery, and ensure effective capture of outcomes.

• Take a proactive approach to driving pilot progress, ensuring key milestones are met without waiting for direction
• Lead on project planning, including building clear roadmaps and tracking delivery against timelines
• Develop and apply evaluation frameworks to assess tools, vendors, and outcomes
• Engage with vendors to challenge assumptions, validate integrations, and ensure solutions meet business needs
• Support multiple concurrent work streams, including deep dives into specific use cases and technical platforms
• Design and facilitate workshops (e.g. with cyber teams) to align on requirements and use case development
• Collaborate with stakeholders to embed solutions effectively within business processes
• Ensure key data, learnings, and outputs from pilots are properly captured and communicated
• Operate across multiple meetings and stakeholder groups, often simultaneously, to maintain pace and alignment

You will be a commercially minded legal engineer or lawyer with strong project delivery capability and experience working closely with legal teams. You will bring a blend of technical understanding and legal process insight, alongside the confidence to challenge stakeholders and drive outcomes.

• Prior experience working with lawyers, either in private practice or in-house
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Experience supporting or delivering pilot programmes or innovation initiatives
• Familiarity with legal technology platforms, systems, and emerging agent-based solutions
• Solid business analysis and process mapping capability
• Ability to operate independently, using initiative to push work streams forward
• Comfort managing change in fast-paced, evolving environments

• Working pattern:
  Full time
• Start Date:
  
  ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• IR35 status:
  All models available