Job Summary:
The Senior Associate will be responsible for assisting with digital forensics, e-Discovery, cyber security, and data analytics projects resulting from the identification, collection, analysis, and processing of ESI.
Job Duties:
- Develops technical work plans and preliminary budgets
- Defensibly collects data from a wide range of data sources including desktop/laptop computers, tablets/smartphones, network sources of varied operating systems, flash media and other external USB sources
- Conducts e-Discovery preprocessing analysis related to the categorization and summarization of large sets of ESI
- Conducts detailed analysis tasks in a distributed team environment
- Summarizes analysis results in a comprehensive and defensible manner
- Interacts with client legal and IT team members
- Assists the team with developing new and innovative forensic processes and procedures
- Manages digital forensics lab evidence intake, maintenance, and patching
- Uses and follows existing evidence management systems and policies
- Conducts detailed chain of custody evidence transfer and intake
- Assists in varying capacities with digital forensics, incident response, e-discovery, and data analytics projects
- Creates draft affidavits, declarations, and forensic reports of findings
- Conducts quality control peer reviews of teamwork product
- Travels domestically and internationally, often with little notice
- Other duties as required
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree required, Computer Science or Information Technology focus, preferred
- MBA or other relevant advanced degree, preferred
Experience:
- Two (2) or more years of, eDiscovery project and/or related experience, required
- Prior consulting, military or law enforcement experience, preferred
- License/Certifications:
- Relativity and/or other relevant certification, preferred
- Any certification in Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, preferred
Software:
- Prior experience in a professional context using RelativityOne and/or other related industry software
- Language:
- Spanish and/or Asian language fluency (read, speak and/or write), preferred
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical and basic research skills related to the retrieval and organization of high volumes of information
- Solid organizational skills especially ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
- Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
- Proven ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
- Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel
- Advocate of continuous learning, many times through self-study
- Ability to encourage team environment on engagements and contribute to the professional development of assigned personnel
- Executive presence and ability to act as primary contact on assigned engagements
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.
California Range: $90,000 - $100,000
Colorado Range: $90,000 - $100,000
New York City/ Valhalla Range: $90,000 - $100,000
Washington Range: $90,000 - $100,000
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.