Legal Spend Analyst & Architect

1100 Epiq eDiscovery Solutions, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

1100 Epiq eDiscovery Solutions, Inc. is hiring a Legal Spend Analyst / Architect to codify spend definitions, ensuring consistency and auditability across analytics.

The role focuses on translating complex spend concepts into robust, code-driven models. You will own core definitions (e.g., Average Blended Rate, Disputed Fees, Total Spend) and lead migration from Excel to modern data structures, validating calculations with SQL and Python for client insights and action-oriented recommendations.

Qualifications

• Domain expertise in Legal Operations, Billing Management, or Spend Analysis.
• SQL and Python familiarity to understand engineers’ work.
• Ability to translate technical definitions to stakeholders clearly.
• Willingness to learn how LLMs/AI consume data and avoid hallucinations.

Responsibilities

• Own key business definitions and calculation methods for legal spend analysis.
• Audit legacy Excel files and refactor data definitions into modern models.
• Validate analysis of client data and drive accurate calculations.
• Support reporting and storytelling for senior audiences and C-suite.

Skills

SQL

Python

Domain expertise in Legal Ops

Communication

Curiosity

Job description

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.

Job Summary

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 codifies 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.

Essential Job 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 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 & Characteristics

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.

Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors: Location-based market rate for the role Your abilities in relation to the job specification Performance during screening and interview Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.

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Epiq is a leading global provider of integrated technology and services for the legal profession, including eDiscovery, managed services, bankruptcy, class action and mass tort administration, federal regulatory actions and data breach responses. Our innovative solutions are designed to streamline the administration of litigation, investigations, financial transactions, regulatory compliance and other legal matters. Epiq’s subject‑matter experts bring clarity to complexity, create efficiency through expertise and deliver confidence to our clients around the world. We strive for a cohesive, collaborative environment that focuses on group achievement. With over 8000 associates worldwide, Epiq operates in 19 countries and over 80 global locations.