Senior eDiscovery Data Migration Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end platform-to-platform eDiscovery data migrations across commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions.
• Perform migrations involving Actera eDP (Clearwell) and Casepoint SaaS environments.
• Migrate active and archived matters, custodial collections, productions, transcripts, and review work product.
• Preserve critical eDiscovery information, including tags, redactions, search histories, and workspace configurations throughout the migration process.
• Maintain strict data integrity through digital hashing and industry-standard chain-of-custody validation methods.
• Map, transform, and normalize metadata to meet target platform requirements.
• Perform QA/UAT activities, including sampling, reconciliation checks, and validation audits to ensure complete and accurate migrations.
• Cook up phased migration plans designed to minimize disruption to ongoing litigation workflows and user access.
• Coordinate with legal, IT, security, and operations stakeholders throughout migration initiatives.
• Ensure migration activities support legal hold, privacy, and data-retention requirements.
• Document migration activities and maintain auditable records supporting defensible data transfers.
• Identify migration issues and independently research and implement appropriate solutions.
• Support secure and efficient data movement across enterprise eDiscovery environments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 5-7+ years of IT experience.
• 3–7+ years of hands-on experience in eDiscovery data migration, ETL workflows, or legal technology engineering.
• Strong subject-matter expertise with Actera eDP (Clearwell) and Casepoint eDiscovery environments.
• Advanced knowledge of EDRM concepts, metadata handling, relational databases, and structured load files.
• Experience performing defensible and auditable data migrations.
• Strong understanding of chain-of-custody requirements and metadata preservation.
• Experience with scripting and automation tools such as Python, PowerShell, and SQL.
• Understanding of legal holds, data-retention policies, and data privacy requirements.
• Experience performing data validation, reconciliation, QA, and UAT activities.
• Ability to work effectively with legal, IT, security, and operations stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Concordance load files.
• Experience supporting large-scale litigation matters or government investigations.
• Familiarity with secure data-transfer protocols.
• Knowledge of cloud SaaS migration best practices.
• Experience with complex enterprise eDiscovery migration initiatives.
• Experience working with active and archival legal matters and associated review work product.