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Position Title: Sr. Legal Counsel
Location: Dallas, TX
Your role As a Senior Legal Counsel you'll be a critical member of our legal team, supporting strategic global and hyperscale customer transactions. Working alongside senior attorneys and cross-functional business teams, you’ll help draft, negotiate, and advise on complex agreements for data center space and ancillary services. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role where legal skill meets business acumen — ideal for a proactive, business-savvy attorney who thrives in collaborative, dynamic environments.
What You’ll Do
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of customer-facing agreements, including:
- Master Service Agreements for global and hyperscale customers
- Leases, licenses, service agreements, and occupancy contracts for colocation and data center environments
- Ancillary service documents like remote hands, fit-outs, and connectivity orders
- Advise sales, portfolio management, and operations teams on legal and strategic matters
- Analyze and mitigate risk in complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial deals
- Support the day-to-day needs of portfolio and property operations teams, including audits, tenant issues, and project support
- Drive continuous improvement of legal templates, playbooks, and policies
- Assist in developing streamlined, scalable negotiation processes to accelerate deal execution
- Manage external counsel with a focus on efficiency and alignment to business priorities
- Collaborate globally across legal and business units to support enterprise-wide legal initiatives
What You’ll Need
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to at least one state bar (eligible for in-house counsel registration if needed)
- Minimum 5 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Experience negotiating commercial real estate leases or technology-related service agreements (data center agreements strongly preferred)
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives
- Exceptional drafting, negotiation, and communication skills
- Comfortable handling multiple complex projects under pressure in a fast-paced, global business
- Professional presence with the ability to build rapport across departments and cultures
- Detail-oriented, solution-driven, and committed to delivering high-quality legal service
- A team player with initiative, good judgment, and a sense of humor — we value people who take their work seriously, but not themselves
- Willingness to travel occasionally and engage with international stakeholders
A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.
Notes:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.
Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.
Please do not forward unsolicited resumes to any employee of Digital Realty and its subsidiaries. Digital Realty is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited referrals.
