Director-Reporting and Analytics

Who we are: BAL is a team of brilliant people who change lives through elite immigration work and collaborative innovation. We pursue the exceptional in all that we do but never at the expense of our values. Theres no denying our work is demanding both in volume and pace but were up for the challenge. We love the balance of hard work and fun so youll see us in jeans as we shatter glass ceilings and conventional stereotypes. BAL employees feel valued rewarded and respected. We seek opportunities to be of service to others and our communities. We are committed to your growth and development and want to set you up for success here at BAL and beyond.

Who you are: You are looking for work that has a purpose. You arent afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuff done. You learn quickly. You move fast. You embrace challenge and detail as well as creative thinking. You believe you have something unique to contribute and you arent afraid to raise your hand. You understand that powering human achievement is ultimately about impacting a real person. You are looking for a place to grow and an environment where everyone has a spot and is genuinely welcome.

Were better together: A bright driven person like you and an industry-leading powerhouse like BAL Its a perfect combination! We truly want to see you succeed here and become an integral part of our mission to provide an experience that makes a positive difference in peoples lives. Come be a part of something special where you can have an impact and be valued just for being you!

BAL is a leading global immigration law firm recognized for its size reach and commitment to innovation. Our technology ecosystem includes Databricks for data engineering and analytics Power BI for business intelligence SQL databases powering our custom-built Cobalt platform and Salesforce as our future-state business platform. Operating in a cloud-first environment leveraging Azure and AWS we are modernizing our reporting analytics and data engineering capabilities to support faster insight-driven decision-making.

To drive this evolution we are hiring a Director of Reporting and Data Engineering to unify data engineering reporting and analytics under one strategic leader. This role will transform data into a strategic assetmodernizing our reporting stack enabling self-service analytics automating manual work and building a roadmap that future-proofs our data ecosystem.

Problem Statement

While our current reporting function receives high CSAT scores from our internal legal team customers our current reporting and data operations model is reactive fragmented and heavily manual. Reporting functions operate like a centralized support desk responding to ad-hoc requests rather than providing proactive insights aligned with business priorities. Manual report creation consumes significant capacity limiting the teams ability to innovate or automate.

The Power BI stack is underutilized with minimal self-service capabilities. Reporting and data engineering operate in silos creating inefficiencies and unclear ownership. Demand far outpaces capacity and prioritization is largely determined by perceived urgency instead of business value. Without a strategic roadmap modern skills and governance our ability to support fast data-driven decision-making remains limited.

To Solve This:

We need a leader who will shift our team from reactive reporting toward proactive analytics and business partnership. This means:

• Embedding aligned analysts with the business.
• Building a self-service analytics ecosystem.
• Automating manual reporting at scale.
• Establishing governance and data literacy.
• Creating a strategic roadmap for reporting analytics and data engineering.
• Ensuring our data platform supports the firms transition to Salesforce.
• This leader will unify siloed workstreams drive modernization and ensure our data capabilities scale with the firm.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and deliver a unified roadmap across reporting data engineering automation governance and Salesforce reporting evolution.

Business Partnership

• Build strong relationships with business leaders; redesign reporting functions to embed analysts within business units instead of operating as a centralized support desk.

Analytics Modernization

• Modernize Power BI and Salesforce reporting; deploy governed self-service analytics.
• Evaluate enhancements to visualization tools and enterprise reporting models.

Salesforce Reporting Architecture

• Define the reporting architecture and strategy for a Salesforce-centric environment ensuring scalability and alignment with business needs.

Automation & Efficiency

• Build an enterprise-wide automation strategy to reduce manual reporting by 50% including standardizing data models datasets refresh cycles and automated pipelines.

Data Engineering & Platform Optimization

• Own and optimize Databricks; ensure scalable high-quality data pipelines with strong SLAs lineage and reliability.
• Break down silos between reporting and engineering ensuring seamless data delivery.

Governance

• Establish data governance standards for quality lineage cataloging and access.
• Elevate data literacy across the business.

Talent Development

• Assess and upskill the team in modern BI data engineering automation and analytics.
• Build a high-performing business-aligned organization.

Measurement & Accountability

• Define KPIs for automation self-service adoption proactive analytics and reduction of ad-hoc reporting.
• Build transparency with leadership on progress and outcomes.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 57 years leading data engineering reporting or analytics teams with a track record of transformation.
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms (Databricks SQL) and BI tools (Power BI).
• Hands-on Salesforce reporting expertise and experience designing enterprise reporting architecture.
• Proven success shifting reporting organizations from reactive to proactive.
• Expertise in self-service models and automation at scale.
• Strong leadership communication and change management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic roadmaps and execute complex cross-functional initiatives.

Note: To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.

Berry Appleman & Leiden is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of BAL to ensure an equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color national origin religion gender gender identity or expression age disability alienage or citizenship status marital status creed genetic predisposition or carrier status sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. BAL prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.

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Required Experience:

Director