eDiscovery Data Migration Engineer

TechInvents; Woodlawn, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TechInvents seeks an experienced IT professional to move legal matters between enterprise eDiscovery platforms, ensuring chain-of-custody integrity and defensibility.

You will execute migrations across Actera eDP (Clearwell) and Casepoint, migrate matters and related data with full metadata preservation, and run QA/UAT checks, all while coordinating with legal, IT, security, and operations to meet privacy and retention requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years IT experience in migration or legal tech.
• Experience in eDiscovery data migration, ETL workflows, or legal tech engineering.
• Strong knowledge of EDRM concepts and metadata handling.

Responsibilities

• Execute platform-to-platform migrations across eDiscovery solutions with integrity.
• Migrate matters, custodial collections, productions, and work product while preserving metadata.
• Maintain data integrity with digital hashing and chain-of-custody validation.
• Map and load metadata and load files to meet target platform requirements.
• Run QA/UAT, sampling, reconciliation, and validation audits.
• Develop phased migration plans to minimize litigation workflow disruption.
• Coordinate with legal, IT, security, and operations on holds, privacy, and data retention.

Skills

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Actera eDP (Clearwell)

Casepoint eDiscovery

Job description

Move legal matters between enterprise eDiscovery platforms with chain-of-custody integrity and legal defensibility intact.

What you'll do

• Execute platform-to-platform migrations across COTS eDiscovery solutions, including Actera eDP (Clearwell) and Casepoint SaaS
• Migrate active and archived matters, custodial collections, productions, transcripts, and review work product with tags, redactions, search histories, and workspace configuration preserved
• Maintain data integrity through digital hashing and industry-standard chain-of-custody validation
• Map, transform, and normalize metadata and load files (.DAT, .OPT, Concordance) to target platform requirements
• Run QA and UAT activities — sampling, reconciliation checks, and validation audits
• Develop phased migration plans that minimize disruption to ongoing litigation workflows
• Coordinate across legal, IT, security, and operations teams on legal hold, privacy, and data-retention compliance

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of IT experience
• 3–7+ years in eDiscovery data migration, ETL workflows, or legal technology engineering
• Subject-matter expertise with Actera eDP (Clearwell) and Casepoint eDiscovery environments
• Advanced command of EDRM concepts, metadata handling, relational databases, and structured load files
• Scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, and SQL
• Track record of defensible, auditable migrations with documented chain of custody and full metadata preservation
• Understanding of legal holds, retention policies, and data privacy requirements
• Ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust suitability determination

Nice to have

• Concordance load-file experience
• Support of large-scale complex litigation or government investigations
• Secure data-transfer protocols and cloud SaaS migration practice