eDiscovery Senior Consultant

Arkus Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkus Consulting is seeking a Senior Consultant for its hands-on eDiscovery practice in London. The role blends technical delivery with client-facing responsibilities, offering rapid growth as you handle complex matters.

You’ll work with a Director and a tight-knit team, shaping strategies and ensuring high-quality outcomes across engagements. The position is hybrid with central London office collaboration days and remote work for the remainder.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in eDiscovery consulting or project management.
• Hands-on across the EDRM and eDiscovery analytics on live matters.
• Strong interest in generative AI in review and related tools.
• Platform certification such as RCA or Nuix Discover.
• Strong written and verbal communication, attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Run the delivery on your matters across the EDRM, taking on more ownership over time.
• Troubleshoot processing issues and ensure compliance with legal/regulatory requirements.
• Own the quality of your work before it reaches your Director and implement checks.
• Document work to enable teammates to understand what was done and why.

Skills

eDiscovery consulting

Project management

CAL analytics

Generative AI awareness

Communication skills

Education

Computer science or law degree

Digital forensics background

Tools

Nuix Discover

RCA certification

AWS knowledge

Job description

£40,000 to £65,000 depending on experience

Core collaboration days at our central London office with remote for the remainder|Full-time|Reports to a Director

This is a hands-on eDiscovery role for someone with solid experience who wants more responsibility, more complex matters and the chance to grow quickly in a firm that will invest in them. It combines technical delivery, close client contact and real exposure across the business, all held to the exacting standard Arkus is known for.

Senior Consultant

Arkus Consulting|eDiscovery

£40,000 to £65,000 depending on experience

Core collaboration days at our central London office with remote for the remainder|Full-time|Reports to a Director

This is a hands-on eDiscovery role for someone with solid experience who wants more responsibility, more complex matters and the chance to grow quickly in a firm that will invest in them. It combines technical delivery, close client contact and real exposure across the business, all held to the exacting standard Arkus is known for.

About Arkus

Arkus are an independent, highly entrepreneurial, boutique eDiscovery service provider. We were born out of a desire to do things better. Our experience comes from some of the most demanding and highest quality environments in the industry, including Magic Circle law firms and top tier forensic technology and consulting firms.

We are deeply consultative and people-led. Every matter is run by an expert consultant with direct client responsibility, and absolute quality is the standard we hold to in everything, from a quick Teams message to a colleague through to relationship-critical client work. We're small enough that the people who do the work shape how we do it, and your voice will carry.

We work for boutique and international law firms and corporates on complex disputes and investigations, across sectors from financial services, construction and engineering to energy, insolvency, intellectual property and international arbitration.

The role

• This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to do the highest quality eDiscovery work of their career so far, and to grow fast in a firm that invests in its people.
• Run the technical delivery on your matters across the EDRM, taking on more ownership as you prove yourself, with a Director alongside you.
• Be a trusted point of contact for your clients, and the person who spots the problem before it reaches them.

Attention to detail

• eDiscovery is a discipline where small errors compound quietly. A misapplied filter can silently remove thousands of documents from a review population. A single wrong content type setting can fail an entire batch. A Bates gap in a production can undermine months of careful work. You understand this instinctively.
• You check your own work as though someone else produced it. You open and inspect every load file rather than assuming it, test search syntax against known documents before running it across the live population, and read exception reports line by line rather than skimming them.
• You read the disclosure protocol twice, and you're the person who notices the date format mismatch, the deduplication scope ambiguity or the time zone assumption that nobody else spotted.
• When something doesn't reconcile, you can't let it go until you know why. A document count that's even slightly off will bother you, and rightly so.
• You can point to real examples from your career where your attention to detail caught a problem before it reached a client, or where you built a check into a workflow so a mistake could never happen twice.

What you'll do

Delivery and quality

• Run the delivery on your matters across the entire EDRM: defensible identification and collection, processing into Arkus' review platforms, analytics, review strategy, productions and incoming disclosures, taking on more ownership as you prove yourself.
• Troubleshoot and resolve processing issues, and keep the work compliant with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Take ownership of the quality of your own work before it reaches your Director: build repeatable checks into your workflows, reconcile document counts at every stage, and confirm settings before jobs run rather than diagnosing failures afterwards.
• Document your work as you go, so any colleague could pick up your matter and understand what was done, why, and how to verify it. Treat near misses as seriously as errors, capturing and sharing them so they can't recur.

Clients

• Be a day-to-day contact for clients on your matters, working closely with your Director and the senior leadership team, and keeping clients informed on progress, issues and milestones.
• Help shape efficient, defensible collection and review strategies with clients and custodians, using analytics, CAL and generative AI.
• Be forward-thinking: flag potential flaws in a proposed approach before they cause problems.

Commercial awareness

• Understand the budget and timeline on your matters, and flag early when either is at risk.
• Spot opportunities to do more for the clients you work with.

Technology and innovation

• Build deep expertise across leading eDiscovery platforms, and stay current with developments in AI-assisted review.
• Contribute to improving Arkus' internal procedures, documentation and automation, helping further improve accuracy, data security and efficiency.

The wider opportunity

Arkus is a growth-phase company, and that shapes this role. You'll have regular, close access to the founders and the senior leadership team, something extremely rare in this industry at this stage of a career, and part of what makes the role exciting. You'll see how the whole business works, and your voice will carry.

You'll be part of the business development process too: supporting pitches and proposals, and meeting prospects and clients early. That's an unusual amount of exposure for a Senior Consultant, and it's deliberate.

This is a role with real room to grow towards Director.

Required mindset

Your experience, expertise and skills will count for much, but your mindset is what will set you apart. Arkus is not the right fit for everyone; it's a very rewarding place to work, and the perfect place for the right person.

The right person takes visible pride in precision. They find genuine satisfaction in a production that reconciles to the document, a workflow that runs clean first time, and a client who never has to ask 'are you sure?'

What you'll bring

Essential

• 3-6 years in eDiscovery consulting or project management, from a leading provider, consultancy or law firm, with hands‑on experience across the EDRM.
• A solid understanding of the entirety of the EDRM, along with clarity on how a client's legal requirements and timelines fit into it.
• Hands‑on experience of CAL and eDiscovery analytics on live matters.
• A keen interest in generative AI in review, and the judgement to know where it adds value and where it needs careful validation.
• A relevant platform certification, such as RCA or Nuix Discover, or clear progress towards one.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the same care in a quick email as in a formal report.

Also valued

• A digital forensics, computer science or law degree, or equivalent experience.
• A good background in forensics, including data collections using a range of tools.
• Working knowledge of cloud‑based systems such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• An understanding of how the relevant Civil Procedure Rules, arbitration rules, the UK Data Protection Act and UK GDPR affect your clients and your work.

Bonus

• Familiarity with Nuix Workstation or Nuix Investigate, and scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript or PowerShell.
• Experience using or administering AWS products such as S3 and EC2.