Digital Forensic Senior Associate - London - up to £88,000

The opportunity

A specialist consultancy is hiring a Digital Forensics Senior Associate to lead the delivery of forensic investigations and support the ongoing development of a growing Digital Forensics capability. This role suits someone hands-on technically, confident with clients, and comfortable running investigations end to end across corporate and private matters.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead forensic investigations from scoping through delivery, defining methodologies, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and resourcing.
• Preserve digital evidence in line with recognised standards, maintaining chain of custody and contemporaneous records.
• Conduct forensic acquisition and analysis across endpoints and devices (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android), cloud platforms, and third-party/proprietary applications.
• Deliver clear, defensible outputs through high-quality written reports and verbal briefings to senior stakeholders, including legal counsel and executive audiences.
• Manage client relationships: set expectations, provide updates, communicate findings, and respond to challenge and questions.
• Work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure quality and consistency across casework.

What we’re looking for:

• 4/5+ years’ professional experience in digital forensics, technical investigations, or forensic and intelligence consulting (private sector client work preferred).
• Strong hands-on experience in forensic acquisition and analysis across computers and mobile devices.
• Confident client communicator with experience scoping work, running updates, and delivering findings under tight deadlines.
• Experience supporting litigation, regulatory and/or internal investigations, with exposure to legal counsel and senior stakeholders.
• Proven report writing skills covering methodologies, technical findings, and conclusions.
• Familiarity with forensic best practice (including ACPO-aligned principles), chain of custody, and contemporaneous record keeping.
• Experience with common forensic toolsets (e.g. Cellebrite, Oxygen, AXIOM, X-Ways, FTK or similar).

Highly desirable:

• Experience working with corporate environments and data sources (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS).
• Strong third-party application analysis experience (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal).
• Case exposure across IP theft, fraud/financial crime, misconduct, bribery and corruption, defamation/reputation matters, or authenticity disputes.
• Experience contributing to practice development: documenting new collection/analysis processes, researching new devices/platforms, and mentoring juniors.
• Relevant certifications (vendor or industry) or demonstrable continuous learning in DFIR.

Package:

• Competitive base salary (dependent on experience)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (+1 day per year of service up to 30)
• Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to 14% combined)
• Life insurance (4x annual salary)
• Private medical and dental insurance (taxable benefit) for you and your family
• Virtual GP, EAP, gym discounts, and Headspace access
• Enhanced parental support including maternity, paternity, and fertility treatment leave

Equal Opportunity Statement

APT Search is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a workplace free from discrimination, providing fair consideration to all applicants regardless of background or protected status. This client is not accepting applicants who require visa sponsorship or H1-B visas due to the sensitivity of the position and the data managed.