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Legal counsel / senior legal counsel

Canberra
Leidos
Compliance Director
Posted: 13 April
Offer description

Responsibilities
* Work alongside business leaders and client delivery program teams, providing clear, considered legal advice that balances commercial risk with practical, outcome‐focused solutions.
* Support commercial contracting, corporate governance, and compliance activities, contributing to delivery of complex programs in a technology and engineering‐led organization.
* Navigate a dynamic environment with evolving priorities, making sound judgments and progressing matters with pace and pragmatism.
* Provide commercial‐focused legal support across a broad range of matters, partnering closely with stakeholders to enable business outcomes while managing legal risk.
* Influence decisions through credibility, judgment, and collaboration, rather than directive authority.
Qualifications
* Approximately 5 to 10 years post‐qualification experience as a lawyer with a solid foundation in commercial or corporate law.
* Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements.
* A strong commercial mindset and the ability to understand business drivers and provide advice that supports decision‐making.
* Ability to influence outcomes through credibility, judgment, and collaboration.
* Confidence operating in ambiguous and evolving environments, with the ability to make decisions and move matters forward.
* Pragmatic approach, comfortable progressing work and delivering outcomes without every detail fully resolved.
* Adaptability to respond to changing priorities and business needs.
* Exposure to corporate governance and compliance frameworks.
* Ability to manage competing priorities and operate with a high degree of autonomy.
Location & Working Arrangements

The role will be based in either Melbourne or Canberra, with a typical week of in‐office work on two days and the remainder from home.

Citizenship Requirement

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen.

Benefits

Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.

Equal Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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