Senior Data Engineer

The Opportunity: Join TopDog Law and Build Something Meaningful

This role is an opportunity to:

• Join a rapidly growing national firm at a formative stage
• Make a visible, measurable impact on a rapidly growing business
• Grow your skills, responsibility, and influence as the firm scales
• Work alongside high-caliber, mission-driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work

We are looking for people who don’t just want a job, they want purpose and impact.

What You’ll Do

Data Pipeline Development

• Design, build, and maintain reliable data ingestion pipelines from internal systems and third-party data sources
• Implement scalable ELT workflows that process and deliver data across the organization
• Maintain transformation pipelines and ensure reliable delivery of analytics-ready datasets

Data Platform Engineering

• Manage and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of the company’s cloud data warehouse environment
• Maintain orchestration frameworks and scheduling systems that support data workflows
• Optimize data pipeline performance, compute utilization, and system efficiency
• Support infrastructure required for advanced analytics and machine learning workloads

Data Infrastructure & Reliability

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability across data pipelines and platform components
• Ensure data freshness and system uptime meet defined service expectations
• Diagnose and resolve production issues including pipeline failures, data quality issues, and performance bottlenecks

Engineering Standards & Development Practices

• Maintain version-controlled data infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for data pipelines
• Implement testing and validation practices to ensure data quality and reliability
• Contribute to documentation of data pipelines, system architecture, and platform dependencies

Collaboration

• Partner with the Director of Data to implement data architecture and platform improvements
• Support analytics and BI teams by ensuring reliable and well-modeled datasets are available for reporting and analysis
• Contribute engineering input to platform improvements and technical roadmap initiatives

At TopDog Law, everyone is expected to think critically, communicate clearly, and take ownership of their work.

How This Role Drives the Business

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale the data platform that powers analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

This role is responsible for designing and maintaining reliable data pipelines, building scalable data infrastructure, and ensuring that high-quality, well-structured data is consistently available for analytics and operational use.

The Senior Data Engineer will work closely with the Director of Data, who defines the broader data strategy and architecture. This role focuses on translating that strategy into reliable production systems and ensuring the day-to-day reliability, performance, and scalability of the data platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on data platform development, pipeline reliability, and infrastructure scalability.

This role is critical to our success because it:

• Directly impacts [clients / revenue / case outcomes / team efficiency]
• Supports speed, quality, and consistency as we scale
• Helps protect and elevate the TopDog Law brand and client experience
• Strengthens the foundation needed to grow responsibly and sustainably

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 6–12 months, success in this role looks like:

• You consistently deliver on commitments with minimal oversight
• You proactively identify issues and propose solutions
• Your work raises the bar for quality, clarity, and follow-through
• You are viewed as a reliable, trusted partner by teammates and leaders
• You contribute positively to team energy, morale, and momentum