Senior Data Analyst

Position Summary We have the opportunity for a Senior Data Analyst to join the firm’s Data Analytics team to provide support for our employment litigation group. Senior Data Analysts are responsible for providing internal and client‑facing analytic and data visualization solutions. This position will perform a number of duties, including developing processes and techniques to extract data from a variety of sources, determining how best to analyze the data, and generating descriptive and statistical analysis on the data. This position requires prior experience providing analytical support, preferably to a team in the class action and wage-and-hour context. Essential Functions Perform analyses related to a number of employment‑specific project types, including wage & hour, pay equity, reduction‑in‑force, employment discrimination, and other litigation‑related exposure or damages models. Locate the necessary data sources, extract and convert raw, sometimes discordant data into structured files ready for analysis, verify data integrity, run preliminary descriptive analyses, and finalize documents and data for production. Manipulate, clean, analyze, and refine data using a variety of tools including R, Python, Excel, and other software tools. Create dashboards and other data visualizations in Power BI to help drive insights and tell the story of the analysis. Develop and document processes and techniques used to extract, clean, and analyze data. Explain your work to others with varying degrees of technical experience. Daily interaction with attorneys, clients, and users, including presenting findings and summaries of analyses and collaborating to create data‑driven solutions to improve workflows or processes. Proactively explore data looking for relationships, connections, and latent value using both descriptive and statistical techniques. Manage your projects and work with minimal direction to ensure that deadlines are met and relevant stakeholders are kept in the loop. Assist other team members as needed to ensure that exceptional work product is delivered consistently and in a timely fashion. Locate and define new process improvement opportunities. Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field or a Bachelor’s degree in another field and equivalent work experience in a quantitative capacity – Master’s degree preferred. 4+ years’ experience as a data analyst or business data analyst providing support for HRIS‑related data. Previous experience analyzing data in support of employment litigation, including class action, discrimination, wage and hour, pay equity, reduction‑in‑force, and PAGA claims is preferred. Significant experience using statistical packages for analyzing large datasets (e.g., R, Python, SAS, STATA, SPSS, etc.). Significant experience extracting, analyzing, cleaning, and interpreting client payroll data in a variety of forms. Significant experience generating and evaluating exposure analyses based on a variety of underlying damages models. Expert‑level Excel skills and familiarity with the MS Office suite. Experience with R or Python. Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or other data visualization platform, or an interest in learning. Experience with VBA or an interest in learning. Knowledge of SQL and comfortable querying databases, or an interest in learning. Comfortable interacting with attorneys and clients and taking on a prominent role related to data, including presenting the results of your analysis to clients and stakeholders. Ability to explain complicated analyses and processes in terms that are understandable to non‑experts both orally and in writing. Self‑starter capable of working remotely and with little supervision and able to work through and resolve technical issues on their own. Team player, customer service focused, and adept at multi‑tasking and prioritization. Familiarity with Agile project management. Initiative and problem‑solving abilities with a focus on continuous improvement. Keen interest in technology and innovation, and ability to quickly learn new platforms. We are not working with outside recruiters for this position. Benefits In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the expected salary range for this Colorado position is between $94,700 and $142,000. The application deadline for this position is 1/3/2026. Ogletree Deakins offers a robust suite of benefits for our Staff including: Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Leave, a 401(k) matching program, Profit Sharing, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, affordable Health and Life Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage, Health Savings Account / Flexible Spending Accounts to help offset the cost of dependent care and/or health care expenses, Tuition Reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program. Contact Information If you have questions, please e‑mail Megan Becker at megan.becker@ogletree.com with "Sr. Data Analyst" in the subject line. Please note, applications submitted via e‑mail will not be considered. Firm Overview Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment‑related legal matters. Best Law Firms® has named Ogletree Deakins a “Law Firm of the Year” for 14 consecutive years. In the 2025 edition, the publication named Ogletree Deakins its “Law Firm of the Year” in the Litigation – Labor and Employment category. Ogletree Deakins has more than 1,100 attorneys located in 60 offices across the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Mexico. The firm represents a diverse range of clients, including many of the Fortune 50 companies in the U.S. We are fully committed to the importance of diversity within the legal profession, as well as all workplace environments. Equal Opportunity Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr