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In Assurance at EY, we empower you to thrive in a dynamic and inclusive environment. As a key player in our assurance practice, you'll engage with diverse clients, providing critical insights that drive their success. We offer a wealth of career opportunities, from hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies to tailored professional development programs. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that every team member feels valued and inspired to reach their full potential. Discover your future with us and be part of a team that makes a difference!

As an eDiscovery Senior in our Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team, you will work on a variety of client engagements with colleagues across the team collecting, processing, analysing, and producing large volumes of data from multiple sources. Alongside colleagues, you will use industry standard forensic tools along with innovative internally developed software and analytics packages.

Overview of our practice:

Within our global Forensics practice, we have a Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team (FTDS) that is a data-focused unit helping support our clients when dealing with the complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance, and business disputes. Our FTDS team has a speciality eDiscovery team that operates across the full data investigation lifecycle (identification, preservation, collection, processing, analysis, review, production, reporting, and data disposition).

Our engagements typically require working with international teams on large, and often disparate, volumes of electronically stored structured and unstructured data, and the application of advanced analytics techniques. We work with clients across a range of sectors, and specialising in financial services (retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking and insurance), supporting investigations, disputes, and proactive risk detection. We often work in multi-party teams collaborating with our clients, their legal counsel, and other specialists, using our expertise, experience, and advanced technology to deliver data insights in time-pressured situations. We lead on traditional eDiscovery use cases, and our team also works on adjacent use cases, such as digital forensics, cyber incident response, information governance, and data privacy matters amongst other related matters.

Your key responsibilities:

• Take a central role in the provision of end-to-end support and services on eDiscovery engagements, performing tasks across the whole project lifecycle including identification, preservation, analysis, and productions.
• Use a range of industry standard software and services to support client requirements. such as EnCase, FTK, Nuix, Relativity, Reveal, Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, Magnet Verakey and SQL.
• Provide direct engagement support to clients, including but not limited to user access, workstream setup, analytics, and custom object creation within various platforms.
• Work closely with project management to ensure critical deadlines are met and engagement quality is at a high standard.
• Use problem-solving approaches to overcome unexpected issues, both technical and operational.
• Seek new ways to use existing and emerging technologies to solve client problems, e.g., our teams advise, build, and use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to assist our clients, and we are now using generative AI (GenAI) as well to reshape the data investigation process.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients to develop and enhance their workflows creating synergy between teams.
• Support the training and development of junior staff on eDiscovery engagements, including overseeing their work on across all areas of the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of internal procedures and methodologies including the automation of processes.

Skills and attributes for success:

You will build your career by demonstrating a flexible working style, initiative, teaming, and the ability to learn quickly in a dynamic, and at times, highly reactive environment, focusing on the production of high-quality outputs and supporting the delivery on client requirements to often tight deadlines.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Professional experience in eDiscovery, digital forensics, cyber incident response, information governance, and/or data privacy, or an educational background in a related field (e.g., computer science, computer forensics, software engineering, project management, law, etc.).
• Proven experience with industry-standard forensic applications and tools such as EnCase, FTK, Nuix, Relativity, Reveal, Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom and Magnet Verakey.
• Experience with databases, particularly SQL programming and design of relational databases.
• Exposure to programming, e.g., industry experience or a significant implementation project at university.
• Strong independent analytical and problem-solving skills as well as strong teamwork skills.
• High risk awareness and ability to identify and reduce risk in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to nontechnical persons.
• Ability to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and any additional language is considered a plus.
• Adaptable and able to build strong relationships with colleagues and clients.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Data processing experience in Nuix, Relativity, and Reveal or equivalent industry standard tools.
• Experience in using Reveal and/or Relativity, either as user or administrator.
• Exposure to technology infrastructure including server and cloud-based solutions, particularly Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview.
• Exposure to digital forensic tools and analytic techniques.
• Experience working with modern data types such a chat, collaboration, audio, and video.
• Experience working with technology to enable and enhance investigation processes.
• Exposure to archiving, logging, and digital vault systems, e.g., Mimecast.
• Data visualisation experience, for example PowerBI.
• Scripting language experience, particularly SQL and Python.
• Exposure to Object Oriented programming, particularly C#, C++ or Java.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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