At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things!  We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:

Honesty, Reliability, Curiosity, Collaboration, and Passion.

About the role and what you'll be doing: 

Ensono’s Corporate Legal team has opened a position for a Corporate Counsel. This position is responsible for providing legal support and guidance to many of the function areas of the business. This position requires broad exposure to corporate legal matters and for maintaining operations required by law. This role reports to the Associate General Counsel – Corporate. We are looking for a talented individual with initiative and drive, with great attention to detail and ability to follow through.

Primary Responsibilities:

·       Work with the guidance of the Associate General Counsel – Corporate, providing legal counsel in support of tactical and strategic business initiatives.

·       Effectively handle assigned legal activities for various business units, functions or legal practice areas (including HR, Immigration, Finance, Tax, IT and other corporate functions).

·       Structure, draft, review and execute key corporate documents.

·       Assist in drafting, coordinating and managing all activities supporting Ensono’s Board of Directors.

·       Support and assist all corporate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions) and integrate activities.

·       Assist on trademark and patent related workstreams

·       Research, understand and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations.

·       Develop and modify practices, policies and procedures to conform with business requirements and maintain compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

·       Remain current of laws and regulations and emerging legal risks. Work with legal counsel globally to remain abreast of regulatory requirements

·       Ensure adherence to all company policies and procedures.

·       Assist with planning and maintaining records relating to corporate matters

·       General support for the department including engaging legal counsels as appropriate and processing payments.

·       Perform other duties as assigned.

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. 

What You Will Need:

•  Understanding of corporate legal principles, concepts, practices, and standards.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with employees and external contacts (including outside counsel).

• Ability to work well under constantly changing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Critical analysis skills related to identifying and solving problems in a busy corporate environment.

• Experience working with and training non-legal colleagues.

• Experience driving continuous improvement in processes and performance

• .Excellent attention to detail.

• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

• Ability to perform complex tasks with minimal direction and/or supervision.

• Self-starting and solutions-oriented team player.

• Maintains composure during tight deadlines.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Requirements:

• Law graduate (LLB/LLM)

• 2-3 years' proven experience in a related field (prior experience reviewing contracting, entity management work, mergers and acquisition/private equity experience in a corporate legal department a plus)

• Experience at a large law firm (plus) / or as in-house counsel required

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to caste, colour, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, HIV status, or any other status protected by law. Candidates with disabilities who require accommodations during the recruitment process are encouraged to contact our Talent Acquisition team to place a request.

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About Us (Ensono)

Ensono is an expert technology adviser and managed service provider. As a relentless ally, we accelerate clients’ digital transformation to achieve business outcomes that stand to last. Our dedicated team helps organizations optimize today’s systems across any hybrid environment with services such as consulting, mainframe and application modernization, public cloud migration and cloud-native development. With certified experts in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, Ensono has over 3500+ associates globally and is headquartered in greater Chicago.

We care about your success, offering comprehensive strategic and managed services for mission-critical applications. Our Advisory and Consulting services can help upfront with an application strategy or find the right places for your applications – whether it’s public, multi or hybrid cloud, or mainframe. And because we span across all mission-critical platforms, we can meet you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, with 24/7 support when you need it. We are your relentless ally, flexing with you when challenges emerge so you don’t feel stuck in place. With cross-platform certifications and decades of experience, our technology experts have become an extension of your team so you’re continuously innovating – doing more with less while remaining secure. And that’s just the beginning.

About Role

• Provide premium CICS system programming support and services to Ensono mainframe clients.
• The successful candidate will perform mainframe CICS Transaction Server software administration and tuning to support our customers’ CICS environments. The individual will need to work with vendor personnel to achieve timely solutions of CICS related problems.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill customer service requests for mainframe z/OS customers in a timely manner as they pertain to CICS TS and related OEM software products.
• Provide primary support for reported problems related to CICS TS and related OEM software products
• Provide support on 24 x 7 x 365 basis across multiple time zones.
• Provide key support for customer migration services (new customer transitions) as they pertain to CICS TS and related OEM software products.
• Communicate to both customer and management the status of issues at intervals during resolution process.
• Maintain documentation of issue cause, action, and resolution in the designated problem tracking system.
• Assist the assigned project manager in the migration of newly acquired customers such that all technical hurdles are addressed in a timely manner and do not impede the expected progress of the transition nor the targeted migration date.
• In joint co-operation with the Disaster Recovery Services and other technical teams, successfully execute tasks associated with any given customer’s disaster recovery plans.
• Adhere to a schedule that efficiently manages resources and allows timely implementations.
• Follow ITSM change control procedures.

Experience level - 8 + yrs.

Mandatory Skills

• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients
• Must be able to multi-task and work under short deadlines and in high pressure situations.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations)
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.
• Experience in installation/upgrade/customization of CICS TS and OEM products
• SMPE Knowledge and experience

Good to have skills

• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients
• Must be able to multi-task and work under short deadlines and in high pressure situations.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations)
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.
• SMPE Knowledge and experience