Jobs at Qore Technologies

• Lead the review, drafting, negotiation and management of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including platform agreements, technology contracts, vendor agreements, partnership arrangements, NDAs, service agreements, data processing agreements and other commercial documentation.
• Provide legal advisory support to business teams on commercial decisions, product structures, operational matters, employment-adjacent issues, regulatory-adjacent questions and other matters with legal implications.
• Manage the contract lifecycle, including intake, review, negotiation, execution, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and repository discipline.
• Ensure contracts and legal documents are reviewed within agreed SLAs and through the approved task management system.
• Identify, assess and escalate legal risks, including risks connected to the PSSP licence process, regulatory engagement, market expansion, commercial transactions, customer commitments and partner relationships.
• Coordinate with Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Risk, Privacy and Corporate Governance leads on matters with cross-domain legal implications.
• Support the Chief LRCC Officer on Board-facing legal matters, shareholder and equity matters, corporate structure questions, investor-related legal documentation and governance-adjacent legal work.
• Maintain and improve Qore’s legal documentation infrastructure, including templates, standard terms, clause libraries, precedent records and legal playbooks.
• Brief, instruct and supervise external counsel on matters referred externally, and manage associated costs within approved parameters.
• Review AI-assisted legal outputs before they are treated as legal positions, used in external communications, escalated to management, or submitted to the Board, regulators or counterparties.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters, where legal judgement or generalist LRCC experience is required.

Requirements

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL.
• Minimum of 6–8 years’ post-call experience.
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
• Strong commercial legal drafting, negotiation and advisory experience.
• Strong understanding of Nigerian and African commercial law, corporate law, contract fundamentals, technology contracting and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
• Experience advising on commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent legal issues, product or technology matters, data protection clauses, vendor risk and business expansion.
• Good generalist legal range across commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance, dispute support, employment-adjacent legal issues and legal risk management.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously with structured, documented output and strong SLA discipline.
• Experience working with or managing external counsel.
• Strong written communication, sound judgement under pressure and the ability to explain legal risk clearly to non-lawyers.
• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal and governance environment.

Advantageous

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, lending automation, financial technology, SaaS or regulated technology businesses.
• Experience supporting Board-facing, investor-facing or regulator-facing legal matters.
• LLM, compliance, governance, technology law, data protection or financial services qualification.

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• Review, draft and support negotiation of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including platform agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, data processing agreements, service agreements, standard terms and other commercial documents.
• Conduct legal research and prepare clear research notes, summaries, draft positions and advisory support materials for Senior Legal Lead review.
• Support contract lifecycle management for assigned matters, including intake, review, execution coordination, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and obligation monitoring.
• Review counterparty mark-ups, flag deviations from standard positions and prepare comparison notes for Senior Legal Lead review.
• Prepare first drafts of routine legal documents, correspondence, notices, amendments, consents, contract summaries and internal legal notes.
• Support regulatory-adjacent legal matters, Board-facing legal preparation, governance-adjacent legal work and transaction documentation as directed by the Senior Legal Lead.
• Maintain documentation standards, template currency, precedent library records, clause libraries and legal repository hygiene.
• Coordinate execution logistics for agreements moving to signature, including signature block checks, document collation, filing and tracker updates.
• Work with LRCC Operations & Controls to ensure assigned legal matters are properly logged, tracked and updated in the task management system.
• Review AI-assisted legal outputs before escalating them to the Senior Legal Lead or relying on them for research, drafting or contract review support.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where legal execution support or generalist LRCC exposure is required.

Requirements

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL.
• Minimum of 3–5 years’ post-call experience.
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role, preferably within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Nigerian commercial law, contract fundamentals, corporate law basics and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
• Good contract drafting, review and issue-spotting skills.
• Strong legal research ability and clear legal writing.
• Good generalist legal exposure across contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance support, compliance-adjacent matters, data protection clauses and legal operations.
• Strong organisation, matter tracking and deadline management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assigned matters at once and escalate early where senior legal judgment is required.
• Attention to detail, sound judgment and willingness to work within defined templates, playbooks, trackers and approval gates.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tools responsibly as part of legal research, drafting, document review and matter tracking.

Advantageous

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, SaaS, lending, financial services or technology contracting.
• Experience supporting contract repositories, legal operations, task management systems or document automation.
• Exposure to data protection, AML/KYC, regulatory filings or Board-facing documentation.