Senior Manager, Digital Forensics and Expert Services

The EMEAA team is a small but highly capable and collaborative group, primarily based in London, with team members also located across China, and South Africa. The team works closely across regions, combining deep technical expertise with strong communication and shared standards to deliver complex, cross-border forensic engagements with consistency and impact.
We are looking for a Senior Manager based in or near Frankfurt, Germany to join our team and work alongside our Senior Manager based in London. In this role you will act as a primary escalation point for the forensic team, solving the most complex technical challenges while coaching Managers and Senior Consultants. Lead multi-region projects and maintain client and sales team liaison responsibilities.
Our Frankfurt office is a key support to our operations in France and Switzerland, and houses a tight knit team who socialise regularly, including four of our EU sales representatives.
We strive to stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving forensic landscape, continuously testing, refining, and adopting emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies. As a senior manager you will be expected to have hands‑on technical expertise which can be retained and continually developed, maintaining a deep understanding of forensic detail, contribute directly to the day-to‑day delivery of forensic work, and actively shape forensic strategy.

Location:

Frankfurt

Languages:

German (fluent), English

You will be responsible for overseeing and executing end‑to‑end forensic engagements, ensuring the highest standards of technical integrity, legal defensibility, and operational excellence across a wide range of data sources and environments. If required you will prepare technical reports, affidavits, and, where appropriate, deliver testimony. You will work directly with senior legal teams, executives, regulators, and external counsel, translating complex technical matters into clear, actionable guidance.

Acting as a trusted advisor, you will manage cross‑border workflows, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks. You will provide oversight of project delivery, ensuring that senior analysts are appropriately guided and supported to deliver work to the required technical and quality standards.

• Client Engagement, Project Leadership & Consulting

In your role, you will:

• Lead strategic discussions with clients, acting as a primary advisor and providing expert guidance on data collection, preservation, investigative methodologies, and forensic strategy.
• Conduct data mapping and forensic scoping activities, identifying relevant systems, data sources, risks, and dependencies at the outset of engagements.
• Independently manage projects end‑to‑end, acting as the primary point of contact throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Balance multiple concurrent matters, maintaining control over scope, resources and timelines.
• Identify delivery or technical risks early and escalate appropriately to the Team Lead, ensuring timely decision making and risk mitigation.
• Work closely with international teams to ensure consistency of approach, quality, and defensible methodology across regions.
• Represent the firm confidently in client meetings, regulatory discussions, and industry forums.
• Technical Expertise

In your role you will contribute directly to the day‑to‑day workings of the team, combining hands‑on delivery with technical leadership and strategic direction. You will bring hands‑on expertise across a wide range of ESI sources, including:

• Cloud forensics, with hands‑on collection experience across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Azure, including scoping and defensible preservation.
• Mobile device forensics, with hands‑on collection experience using advanced tools such as Cellebrite Premium and Magnet Grey Key, including handling of third‑party application data.
• Computer forensics, with hands‑on collection experience of logical and physical acquisition from macOS and Windows systems.
• File system expertise, including a strong understanding of common file systems (e.g. NTFS, APFS, HFS+, FAT/exFAT) and their forensic implications for data interpretation and…