eDiscovery Data Migration Engineer/Specialist

Key Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree + 5 years 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 proficiency with EDRM concepts, metadata handling, relational databases, and structured load files.
• Working knowledge of scripting and automation tools (Python, PowerShell, SQL).
• Experience conducting defensible, auditable migrations with documented chain of custody and full metadata preservation.
• Understanding of legal holds, retention policies, and data privacy requirements.
• Ability to work effectively with legal, IT, security, and operations stakeholders.

Desired Skills:

• Concordance load file experience
• Experience supporting large scale complex litigation or government investigations
• Familiarity with secure data transfer protocols and cloud SaaS migration best practices

Position Description

CGI is seeking an experienced eDiscovery Data Migration Engineer/Specialist to support complex legal data transitions between enterprise eDiscovery platforms.

Note: This position is 5 days a week onsite at SSA HQ in Woodlawn, MD

Future Roles and Responsibilities

• Execute end to end platform to platform migrations across COTS solutions, including Actera eDP (Clearwell) and Casepoint SaaS.
• Migrate active/archived matters, custodial collections, productions, transcripts, and review work product with full preservation of tags, redactions, search histories, and workspace configuration.
• Maintain strict data integrity using digital hashing and industry standard chain of custody validation methods.
• Map, transform, and normalize metadata and specialized load files (.DAT, .OPT, Concordance formats) to meet target platform requirements.
• Perform QA/UAT activities, including sampling, reconciliation checks, and validation audits to ensure complete and accurate migrations.
• Develop phased migration plans to minimize impact on ongoing litigation workflows and user access.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams to ensure compliance with legal hold, privacy, and data retention requirements.