The Senior Data Specialist supports litigation processes by managing data, performing file manipulations, and ensuring compliance with ESI specifications. Responsibilities include document review, database management, and quality assurance in support of attorneys and investigators.
Senior Data Specialist
Employment Type: Full-Time, Experienced
Department: eDiscovery
CGS is seeking an experienced Senior Data Specialist with extensive knowledge of litigation discovery processes to provide assistance in the EDRM workflow for a large Federal agency initiative.
CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.
Skills and attributes for success:
- 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. Applications used include Everlaw, Relativity, Eclipse, Trial Director, NUIX, LAW, EZManage, CaseView, Metadata Assistant, Beyond Compare, eScan-IT, CaseMap, TextMap, TimeMap, Camtasia, and other applications as directed, or as required to complete processing.
- Under guidance from the client attorneys, manages documents and data, including the use of document review tools. Documents and data include physical documents, a wide range of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), discovery, forensic images, subpoena returns, PDF’s, audio/video files, pictures, forms, email, and others as required to support the client attorneys. Document review tools include those listed in item
- 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. Work with Litigation Support Manager and client attorneys when issues may arise in discovery negotiations with defense counsel.
- Contractor will work with the Litigation Support Specialist in modifying and manipulating files for use with COTS products and litigation support applications.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree preferred-preferably in computer science or related field
- Requires 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.
Our Commitment:
Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human, technical, and financial resources. We combine cutting-edge technology with world-class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our client’s specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems.
For the past seven years, we’ve been growing our government-contracting portfolio, and along the way, we’ve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work.
Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and self-awareness, professionalism in all we do, and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come.
We care about our employees. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.
- Health, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
- Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
Contact Government Services, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Join our team and become part of government innovation!
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https://cgsfederal.com/join-our-team/
For more information about CGS please visit: https://www.cgsfederal.com or contact:
Email: [email protected]
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