Technical Specialist

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Job Description:

The eDiscovery Technical Specialist - Data Collections role is an eDiscovery support function to acquire, search, organize and present key electronic records (mainly but not exclusively email) to support confidential/sensitive Legal and H.R. inquiries and investigations.

Responsibilities

• Developing and enhancing existing process documentation.

• Develop, enhance and maintain operational processes and procedures, including data QC and validation, to ensure a consistent, correct, complete and timely collection and processing of specified sources.

• Coordination with other IT teams to acquire records that are not directly accessible.

• Perform data collections using industry standard tools such as EnCase, Forensic Toolkit, Veritas Discovery Accelerator etc.

• Processing / searching of acquired data.

• Perform data culling and processing using industry standard software such as Nuix.

• Export and package deliverables for review platforms or subsequent processing.

• Provide troubleshooting services to clients.

• Communication with Legal, Regulatory Business requestors (internal clients), IT teams and external providers.

• Ability to clearly set timeline expectations and priorities.

• Ability to define tasks across all support organizations.

• Maintain tracking and reporting for various support teams and up lines.

•  Potentially work additional hours beyond regular schedule to meet customer commitments which may include evenings and weekends.

Requirements

• Familiarity with eDiscovery tools, in particular Veritas Discovery Accelerator; Gimmal Discovery Attender.

• Familiar with standard eDiscovery methodology.

• Microsoft Office (including advanced Excel).

• Electronic Mail (Exchange).

• Ability to engage effectively to internal Clients (notably General Counsel and H.R.) (i) to understand requirements for a particular request (ii) to turn Business requirements into technical requests / activities (iii) to summarize and present the resulting information back to the Business requestor.

• A high degree of discretion is required for this role. 

• Excellent documentation skills to ensure that key processes are documented in an effective manner.

• Ability to work onsite at the client's office 2-3 days per week (required) in Liverpool Street area.

Desirable

• An understanding of Microsoft and Unix based distributed computing environments is beneficial to understand what records of electronic communications are available.

• Awareness of trading settlement systems to understand the type of records these systems hold.

• Awareness of trading / market data IM (e.g. Reuters, Bloomberg) functionality.

• Scripting ability to allow ad hoc requests to process unstructured data to be effectively handled (e.g. Perl, Python). #LI-Remote #LI-RC1

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