Legal Spend Analyst & Architect

At Epiq, your work contributes to complex, global legal outcomes. You’ll join a values-driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and we thrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise-wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.

About the role

The Legal Spend Analyst / Architect owns the business logic and definitions used across the team's analytics capabilities. While methods and definitions may vary and drift in a traditional Excel environment, this role helps codify them to ensure consistency and auditability in a more modern software-driven analytics paradigm. This role is key to helping deliver client insights that can clearly articulate the "so what" behind observations and drive action toward the "now what" recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Data Definitions: Own the key business definitions and calculation methods for legal spend analysis (e.g., the context/schema.md files in a dbt project) and sources of truth. Define exactly what "Average Blended Rate," "Disputed Fees," or "Total Spend" means in code logic.
• Legacy Migration: Audit existing Excel files and PowerPoint decks used by delivery stakeholders. Identify where data definitions are ambiguous and refactor them into new paradigms in a modern data and analytics environment (e.g., the models/ structure in a dbt project).
• Quality/Consistency Review: Validate proper analysis of client data in traditional calculations (e.g., SQL) and AI tools.
• Reporting Support: Help drive storytelling through data for a senior audience in law departments as well as the C-suite.

Qualifications

• Domain Expertise: Deep background in Legal Operations, Billing Management, or Spend Analysis. You must understand the nuances of staffing models, unit costs, and timekeeper productivity for legal work.
• SQL & Python: Familiarity with SQL and Python (to understand Engineers' work).
• Communication: Ability to translate technical definitions and issues into clear terms for stakeholders (e.g., explaining the impact of missing—i.e., null—values being captured as zero in a rate book).
• Curiosity: Willingness to learn how LLMs/AI consume data to prevent hallucinated advice on key data.
• Experience working with large CSV/Parquet datasets locally preferred.
• Knowledge of specific E-Billing and Enterprise Legal Management exports (e.g., Legal Tracker, Onit, TeamConnect) a plus.

Skills

• Applies deep business and financial insight to guide strategic decisions, resource allocation, and thought leadership.
• Fosters innovation through curiosity, smart risk-taking, and adaptability—aligning change with strategy for lasting impact.
• Builds and develops inclusive, high-performing teams aligned to strategic goals for exceptional talent and business results.
• Builds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.
• Inspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.
• Sets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq’s goals.