Legal Operations Data & Analytics Lead

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Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois - Moline
Function: Data and Analytics (CA)
Title: Legal Operations Data & Analytics Lead - 123377  
Onsite/Remote: Onsite Position

Your Responsibility

The Legal Operations Data & Analytics Lead develops analytics, reporting, artificial intelligence solutions, and data-driven insights that improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and strategic decision-making capabilities of the Legal organization. This role serves as the Legal Operations team's technical expert for dashboard development, self-service analytics, contract intelligence, data wrangling, data pipelines, and AI-enabled solutions.The role partners with stakeholders to transform legal data into actionable insights.

As a Legal Operations Data & Analytics Lead for John Deere World Headquarters located in Moline, IL, Des Moines, IA, Chicago, IL, or Santa Clara, CA y ou will:

• Develop and maintain dashboards and self-service analytics-build Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting solutions.
• Analyze legal operations data-evaluate outside counsel spend, billing trends, matter lifecycles, workload drivers, operational performance, and process efficiency to identify insights, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Perform data wrangling and quality management -cleanse, transform, validate, and standardize data to improve accuracy, consistency, usability, and trust in Legal reporting and analytics.
• Enable contract intelligence-extract, structure, and analyze contract data to identify obligations, risks, trends, business opportunities, and insights that support Legal and business decision-making.
• Develop forecasting and anomaly detection capabilities-build models, scripts, and monitoring solutions that support budgeting, demand planning, billing review, compliance monitoring, and identification of outliers or process issues.
• Support AI and LLM readiness-build structured datasets and pipelines for artificial intelligence consumption, including GenAI, machine learning, and large language model use cases within Legal Operations.
• Build AI-enabled tools and agents-design and support AI agents, copilots, automations, and workflow solutions in the Microsoft environment, including Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI, and related tools.
• Partner across functions-work with Legal, Finance, Procurement, IT, Compliance, and other stakeholders to improve data governance, reporting adoption, operational efficiency, and analytics maturity. 

VISA Sponsorship is NOT Available for this position.

What Skills You Need

• 5 or more years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, data science, data engineering, or advanced analytics.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, including experience transforming, analyzing, and validating complex datasets.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports, and visual analytics using Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines, automated reporting workflows, data repositories, or analytics environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into business insights and recommendations.
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner with Legal, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders. 

What Makes You Standout

• Familiarity with legal technology platforms
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Services, Azure AI, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, or related Microsoft enterprise technologies.
• Experience building AI agents, copilots, LLM-enabled tools, or automation solutions in a Microsoft environment.
• Experience with contract analytics, document intelligence, unstructured data extraction, or knowledge management solutions.
• Experience with machine learning, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, statistical modeling, or forecasting.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, data privacy, access controls, and information management best practices. 

Education

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay 
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
• Vacation and Holiday Pay

$109,284.00 - $163,920.00 + Benefits

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Must be 18 years of age or older to apply

The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

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