Senior Data Specialist: Elevate eDiscovery & ESI Workflows

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) is seeking a Senior Data Specialist II with extensive knowledge of litigation discovery to support EDRM workflows for a large federal initiative. You will manipulate, load, convert, and quality-check data, while coordinating with client attorneys and litigation teams across multiple platforms.

The role requires experience with document review tools, data exports, and adherence to ESI specifications, with collaboration across the client technology center

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree preferred—preferably in computer science or related field.
• Knowledge of litigation discovery process, and the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) workflow.
• Knowledge of Government’s IT environment, including office automation networks, PC and server based applications preferred.
• Working knowledge of personal computers, including Windows, document review software, and encryption methods.
• Experience with LAW, IPRO, Relativity or other document processing platform.
• Familiarity with ICONECT, Relativity, MS Office Suite, and West LiveNote valued.
• At least two years’ experience performing eDiscovery roles including but not limited to electronic files processing (EFP), image and data file conversion, data culling using review tools, quality assurance, database loads and retrieval, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Performs file manipulation, loading, conversion services, database indexing, and quality checks of loads.
• Develops, evaluates and modifies methodologies and procedures for manipulating files for use with COTS products and litigation support applications.
• Responsible for ensuring that incoming productions are made pursuant to the applicable ESI specifications.
• Performs advanced tasks related to exporting data from contractor and client databases, including: identifying data for export, confirming redactions and other markups, ensuring that exports comply with applicable ESI specifications, and quality check of exported data.
• Support client attorneys, investigators, and paralegals by tracking and processing incoming documents, subpoena returns, and data; creating, loading, and managing document review databases; producing documents to opposing parties in litigation; and tracking produced documents.
• Under guidance from the client attorneys, manages documents and data, including the use of document review tools.
• Contractor will work with the Litigation Support Manager to ensure that incoming productions are made pursuant to the applicable ESI specifications and when deficiencies are found, provides Litigation Support Manager with detailed notice of deficiencies.
• Coordinate with the client’s Technology Service Center regarding litigation support projects that are outsourced to the client.
• Contractor will ensure that all exports for productions are made pursuant to applicable ESI specifications and/or the requirement of the requesting party or client personnel using the guidelines utilized by the Litigation Support Unit.
• Contractor will work with the Litigation Support Specialist in modifying and manipulating files for use with COTS products and litigation support applications.

Skills

eDiscovery

Data manipulation

Quality checks

Export data

Client support

Document review tools

EDRM workflow

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

LAW

Relativity

Eclipse

Trial Director

NUIX

EZManage

CaseView

Metadata Assistant

Beyond Compare

eScan-IT

CaseMap

TextMap

TimeMap

Camtasia

ICONECT

West LiveNote

MS Office

Job description

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) is seeking a Senior Data Specialist II with extensive knowledge of litigation discovery to support EDRM workflows for a large federal initiative. You will manipulate, load, convert, and quality-check data, while coordinating with client attorneys and litigation teams across multiple platforms.

The role requires experience with document review tools, data exports, and adherence to ESI specifications, with collaboration across the client technology center