Lead Cybersecurity Legal eDiscovery & Information Governance

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

About AT&T

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Role Summary

The Legal eDiscovery & Information Governance role serves as a senior individual contributor and organizational thought leader responsible for enterpriselevel eDiscovery strategy program oversight and process architecture. This role operates at the intersection of Legal Security IT Compliance and Records Management to ensure defensible scalable and costeffective management of electronically stored information (ESI) across its full lifecycle.

In this role you will lead strategic planning program management process design and implementation and acts as a trusted advisor to Legal leadership on emerging discovery risks technology evolution and regulatory obligations. The role has broad influence without direct people management and is expected to shape policy standards governance models and longterm roadmap decisions impacting the enterprise.

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Thought Leadership

• Serve as enterprise thought leader for Legal eDiscovery ESI lifecycle management and information governance strategy.
• Anticipate and respond to emerging technologies regulatory trends court expectations and compliance risks translating them into actionable strategy and standards.
• Partner with Legal Security and IT leadership to define futurestate eDiscovery and data governance capabilities including Microsoft 365 Purview cloud platforms device ecosystems and emerging collaboration tools.
• Represent eDiscovery interests in enterprise architecture vendor evaluations and major transformation initiatives.

Program & Portfolio Management

• Lead enterprise eDiscovery programs and largescale initiatives including divestitures data migrations system retirements ESI deletion cycles and compliance transformations.
• Oversee multiyear roadmaps funding justifications business cases and executivelevel reporting for eDiscoveryrelated programs.
• Coordinate crossfunctional teams (Legal IT Security Privacy Records Asset Management Vendors) without formal authority ensuring accountability and outcomes.

Process Design Governance & Defensibility

• Design document and maintain defensible auditable eDiscovery and legal hold processes including:
  • Legal hold preservation and release
  • Custodian and device management (COUs laptops cloud sources)
  • Collection processing retention and deletion of ESI
• Develop and govern standards methods & procedures (M&P) metrics and internal audit frameworks to support defensibility and continuous improvement.
• Ensure consistent application of process across jurisdictions matters and business units.

Advisory & Complex Matter Support

• Act as advisor for complex litigation regulatory requests investigations and class actions.
• Provide guidance on preservation scope proportionality data sources and technical feasibility.
• Support executive leadership Legal leadership and outside counsel with expertise on highrisk or nonstandard discovery scenarios.

Technology Strategy & Enablement

• Evaluate and guide adoption of legal and investigative technologies including eDiscovery platforms forensic tools automation and analytics.
• Partner with Security and IT on tooling alignment access models and Zero Trust considerations related to discovery operations.
• Influence enterprise tooling decisions to ensure Legal requirements are incorporated early and consistently.

Automation & AI Enablement

• Identify prioritize and deliver automation opportunities across eDiscovery and information governance workflows (e.g. legal hold notifications and acknowledgements custodian tracking collection intake chain-of-custody documentation exception handling reporting).
• Define and implement AI-assisted capabilities to improve speed and quality of discovery operations such as semantic search relevance clustering privilege and PII spotting communication pattern analysis and intelligent QA of productionsensuring outputs are defensible and reviewable.
• Establish governance for AI use in Legal workflows (approved use cases human-in-the-loop checkpoints audit logging model/data access controls validation criteria and repeatability standards) in partnership with Privacy Security and Compliance.
• Partner with IT and platform owners to embed automation and AI into enterprise toolsets (e.g. Microsoft 365/Purview and eDiscovery platforms) including integration patterns role-based access and secure data handling.
• Develop success metrics and executive reporting for automation/AI adoption (cycle-time reduction cost avoidance error-rate reduction consistency and defensibility indicators) and drive continuous improvement based on measured outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

Experience: 5 years of eDiscovery experience.

Education:Bachelors degree in information technology Computer Science ora relatedfield.

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Our Lead Cybersecurity earns between$158200-$237400 USD Annual not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography experience expertise and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories
• AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

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