Associate Director, eDiscovery and Data Advisory

Job Summary

SCB is currently recruiting a motivated and detail-oriented eDiscovery Associate Director to join its Legal eDiscovery & Data Advisory (“eDDA”) team. This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of our Legal function, supporting an experienced in-house team of data, forensic and legal experts and will be pivotal to delivering a successful data journey for our Investigation, Litigation & Regulatory matters.

This position is ideal for recent graduates or individuals beginning their career in eDiscovery and offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise within a team at the forefront of the intersection between law and technology. We are seeking individuals who have an interest in digital forensics or data analysis and are keen to drive forward technology solutions for our legal problems. If you are eager to learn, excited by problem solving and driven by the idea of using technology to support critical legal matters, this role provides an excellent foundation for a rewarding career in eDiscovery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all key business and functional stakeholders that is based on trust, capability, and integrity, providing timely, responsive, and quality support to enable the Bank to achieve its strategic objectives.
2. Assist to deliver the Legal functions Investigation and Legal eDiscovery matters.
3. Provide timely advice to our Lawyers and Investigators on aspects of relevant legal discovery and disclosure frameworks.
4. Work with our external service providers to execute time-sensitive managed document review.
5. Supporting our Lawyers and Investigators with eDiscovery challenges. You will help us support the development of proportionate Legal data review methodologies and provide expert solutions to support our matters.
6. Assist in the execution of data collections from the Banks systems in a quality controlled and documented manner.
7. Ensure the functions eDiscovery practice is carried out in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
8. Helping our Lawyers and Investigators use our “Relativity” eDiscovery review platform and provide training to other members of the function as and when required.
9. Support the team in collation of MI, ensuring relevant management information and key performance indicators are provided to all key internal stakeholders.
10. Support our innovation pillar, ensuring we always have the right technology to support our stakeholders.
11. Act to minimise operational loss, audit failures, and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising.

Minimum Qualifications / Skills

1. A degree (or equivalent) in a technology, numerate or business-related subject.
2. You must be naturally curious about how technology and data can support our legal investigations. You should have a keen interest in the legal and investigative process, have a problem-solving mindset and understand the basic concepts of how technology can help uncover insights from large data sets.
3. Excellent communication skills, including being able to translate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
4. An ability to manage time and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced and multi-tasking environment.
5. Ability to work within a team environment and help support the team’s growth and business objectives.
6. You should be familiar with basic eDiscovery concepts, including the utilisation of technology (e.g. Relativity) to search, sort and review large amounts of electronic data for Investigations or Litigation.

Preferred Qualifications / Skills

1. Experience working in a digital forensics or eDiscovery corporate environment.
2. Previous experience and knowledge of the eDiscovery Reference Model (EDRM).
3. Previous experience and knowledge of Relativity and other eDiscovery tools.
4. Basic knowledge and understanding of SQL, Python or other scripting languages.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

1. Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
2. Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
3. Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term.

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

1. Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
2. Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
3. Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
4. Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits.
5. A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
6. Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.