Forensic Technology eDiscovery - Senior Manager - Dublin

Financial Services - Senior Manager, Forensic Technology eDiscovery – Dublin

About the job

EY’s Forensic & Integrity Services (FIS) helps clients protect and restore enterprise value through the prevention, detection, and response to fraud, cyber events, misconduct, regulatory breaches, and complex disputes. The Forensic Technology team sits at the heart of this mission—delivering technology-enabled investigations, digital evidence collection, data analytics, eDiscovery, cyber incident response support, and integrity-led data governance programs for public and private sector clients.

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Our Forensic Technology & Discovery team (FTDS) practice the full lifecycle of data analysis, from the early stages of identification and collection, through to management, analysis, reporting and production. Using state-of-the-art tools and techniques, our team support clients in dealing with the complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance and business disputes.

Our engagements typically require working with large, and often disparate, volumes of electronically stored, structured and unstructured information, and the application of advanced analytics techniques.

As a Senior Manager in Forensic Technology, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex, time-sensitive, and high-stakes engagements across investigations, litigation & arbitration, regulatory matters, and integrity transformations. You will shape go-to-market strategy, build C-suite relationships, and scale service delivery across Ireland and EMEIA, while maintaining the highest standards of professional and evidentiary rigor.

You will be a visible market leader who balances technical depth (eDiscovery, DFIR, data analytics, cloud, AI-enabled review) with commercial acumen, people leadership, and quality risk management.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Manager in Forensic Technology, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex, time-sensitive, and high-stakes engagements across investigations, litigation & arbitration, regulatory matters, and integrity transformations. You will shape go-to-market strategy, build C-suite relationships, and scale service delivery across Ireland and EMEIA, while maintaining the highest standards of professional and evidentiary rigor.

You will be a visible market leader who balances technical depth (eDiscovery, DFIR, data analytics, cloud, AI-enabled review) with commercial acumen, people leadership, and quality risk management.

You will actively establish, maintain and strengthen market relationships with clients through delivery and proactive market activity. By drawing on your knowledge and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for EY clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities:

Client Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead end-to-end forensic technology engagements: eDiscovery (EDD, processing, analytics, review), digital forensics (endpoint, mobile, O365/M365, cloud), structured data analytics, transaction monitoring, continuous controls analytics, and ESI/evidence lifecycle.
• Oversee triage-to-production workflows, including scoping, legal hold, preservation/collection, processing, culling, analytics (TAR/CAL), review management, production, and defensibility documentation.
• Direct complex multi-jurisdictional matters with competing legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, banking secrecy, litigation holds, discovery rules).
• Provide expert input for incident response (in partnership with Cyber/DFIR teams), including scoping, artefact capture, and data containment/notification support.
• Draft and review expert/technical reports and affidavits; support witness testimony where required.

Growth & Market Leadership

• Own and deliver revenue targets and pipeline across priority sectors (e.g., Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Life Sciences, TMT, Consumer).
• Develop and execute go-to-market propositions (e.g., AI-enabled eDiscovery, model risk & AI assurance in investigations, cloud collections at scale, integrity monitoring).
• Establish and nurture C-suite and Counsel relationships; lead pursuits, proposals, and solutioning for panel appointments and framework tenders.

People & Culture

• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of managers, seniors, and analysts across eDiscovery, DFIR, data engineering, and analytics.
• Champion diversity, equity & inclusion, wellbeing, and psychological safety; ensure robust supervision and mentoring pathways.
• Sponsor learning pathways and certifications (e.g., Relativity, Nuix, EnCase, Cellebrite, GIAC, ACEDS, CFE).

Quality, Risk & Compliance

• Act as Engagement Quality Reviewer or Responsible Executive on complex matters; ensure chain of custody, defensible methodologies, and independent review.
• Uphold firm policies and regulatory requirements, including independence, confidentiality, information security, and data protection.
• Drive continuous improvement in quality frameworks, playbooks, templates, and knowledge management.

Technology & Innovation

• Lead the roadmap for tools and platforms (e.g., Relativity, Reveal, Nuix, O365 Purview, Azure/AWS collections; analytics/ML tooling such as Python, SQL, Spark, Azure ML).
• Embed AI-enabled review, analytics accelerators, and workflow automation to increase speed, accuracy, and cost predictability.
• Partner with global teams to leverage EMEIA and global delivery centres for scalable, follow-the-sun support.
  
  

Skills & attributes for success:

Working within this role involves a varied combination of technical skills, client contact, business development, team building, and project management. This role has great potential to help shape the growth of our team, exploit market opportunities and to progress your career at EY.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Academic qualifications with a degree in the field of forensic computing or appropriate work experience within the eDiscovery or Forensic Computing industry

• Deep expertise in eDiscovery lifecycle and digital forensics across enterprise, mobile, and cloud ecosystems and forensic software products, including EnCase (EnCE if possible), FTK, Cellebrite, Nuix, Relativity and Brainspace.

• Expertise processing and analysing large volumes of unstructured and structured data
• Solution-oriented approach to the delivery and implementation of projects, as well as the ability to build strong relationships with your teams and clients

• Strong grounding in data governance, privacy, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, DPA, discovery rules; sector-specific regs desirable).
• Commercial leadership: proven revenue growth, client development, and solution packaging.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, including reporting for legal audiences and/or expert testimony experience.
• Relevant certifications (one or more): Relativity Expert/Master, ACEDS, EnCE, GCFA/GCFE, CCE, CFCE, CFE, CISSP, Security+, Azure/AWS certs.

Ideally you’ll also have:

• Law firm experience or demonstrable experience working with lawyers
• Intellectually rigorous, with extremely strong analytical skills and a passion for data
• Seeking high levels of ownership and responsibility
• Exposure to SQL programming and design of relational databases
  
  
  

What we look for:

Individuals at EY thrive when they have an adaptable working style with self-initiative and the ability to learn quickly in a dynamic and reactive team. We are looking for tenacious and curious individuals with a desire to ‘get to the bottom’ of things. You will be both intellectually rigorous, a strong technical ability as well as adaptable and able to build strong relationships.

What working at EY offers:

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
  
  
  

About EY:

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we are dedicated to making EY the best employer.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Make your mark.

Who we are:

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

Please note;

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusiveness here . We ask because it matters!